On 7/11/06, Magnus Manske <magnus.manske(a)web.de> wrote:
poore5(a)adelphia.net wrote:
Hello Magnus,
Could you explain a little more about how you plan to use the tool?
I have some concerns about using it on Biographies of living people on Wikipedia-en. We
have too much unverified information added to these article. I strongly believe that each
article needs to be examined closely to verify the content meets our Wikipedia:BLP
guidelines before it is added to a template.
Well, it can't run fully automatically, there has to be a user making
the changes. I could prevent the tool from showing a template for people
with no death date (=probably living;-) if there's great concern about
that. Otherwise, the tool doesn't generate new data; it merely tries to
extract the data already in the article and put it into a form that is
more machine-readable.
Magnus
Magnus: I'm glad to hear someone is working on the
extracting-persondata-from-article idea, which has been bruited about
for a while (but never actually acted on); but how exactly does it
work? Does it parse the first bolded run of text as the name, the
first two years as birth and death dates, and ditto for locations and
birth and death places, etc? Is it a AWB program, a pywikipedia (my
personal hope), a standalone program, what? I am rather interested in
such a program. Also, will it run on Linux and be Free?
~maru