I believe my following characterisation is accurate, if it is not
please correct me.
The tool is given a category containing biographies (and nothing
else?) such as [[Category:1984 births]]. The tool then, through some
pattern recognition, produces a completed {{Persondata}} template (a
metadata template containing vital stats about a person, see the
example below - it is not something you or I read, something for
computers to read) for every article in that category.
So, for example, the article [[A. R. Rawlinson]] (listed in the above
category) contains the following lead sentence:
"'''Lieutenant-General A.R. "Dick" Rawlinson'''
([[1894]]-[[1984]])
served in [[military intelligence]], before commencing on a
[[screenwriting]] career."
Magnus' tool will convert discrete facts in this prose data (name,
DoB, DoD) into fields for the Persondata template. It produces this
for the above example:
{Persondata
|NAME=Rawlinson, A.R.
|ALTERNATIVE NAMES=
|SHORT DESCRIPTION=served in [[military intelligence]], before
commencing on a [[screenwriting]] career
|DATE OF BIRTH=1894
|PLACE OF BIRTH=
|DATE OF DEATH=1984
|PLACE OF DEATH=
}}
The user using the tool then copies this completed template and pastes
it into the A. R. Rawlinson article.
On 12/07/06, poore5(a)adelphia.net <poore5(a)adelphia.net> wrote:
---- 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
I thought you said something about doing whole categories. I got the impression that the
tool would convert a whole group of articles, over course one after another.
Who would use the tool? Does a human need to verify each fact (not sure of a better word)
before it goes into the template?
If not I'm concerned about some false information slipping through.
Otherwise it sounds great. : - )
Take care,
Sydney aka FloNight
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