Are we prefering {{Persondata}} or {{Infobox biography}}?
Should they be merged, somehow?
I'm asking this because I'm writing a tool to generate Persondata from article text as a copy&paste text. Can scan whole categories at once.
Magnus
On 7/11/06, Magnus Manske magnus.manske@web.de wrote:
Are we prefering {{Persondata}} or {{Infobox biography}}?
Should they be merged, somehow?
I'm asking this because I'm writing a tool to generate Persondata from article text as a copy&paste text. Can scan whole categories at once.
One ({{Persondata}}) is raw metadata, but is applicable to _all_ biographies; the other ({{Infobox biography}}) is designed for display to users, but has been replaced in certain types of biographies (politicians, royalty, military leaders) with more specialized templates.
Ideally, we could have a tool that would be able to parse at least the major infobox types and fill out the persondata fields; but I'm not sure how much work it would be, considering that there is a certain variation in how different infoboxes deal with particular data.
Kirill Lokshin schrieb:
On 7/11/06, Magnus Manske magnus.manske@web.de wrote:
Are we prefering {{Persondata}} or {{Infobox biography}}?
Should they be merged, somehow?
I'm asking this because I'm writing a tool to generate Persondata from article text as a copy&paste text. Can scan whole categories at once.
One ({{Persondata}}) is raw metadata, but is applicable to _all_ biographies; the other ({{Infobox biography}}) is designed for display to users, but has been replaced in certain types of biographies (politicians, royalty, military leaders) with more specialized templates.
I'll stick to Persondata, then.
Ideally, we could have a tool that would be able to parse at least the major infobox types and fill out the persondata fields; but I'm not sure how much work it would be, considering that there is a certain variation in how different infoboxes deal with particular data.
I've done raw text extraction for the German Personendaten. While the en version is still experimental, it works OK in many cases: http://tools.wikimedia.de/~magnus/persondata.php?category=1984_deaths
I could add popular infoboxes (any suggestions?) and German Personendaten, if a de article exists.
Magnus