At the WMUK education summit yesterday somebody - I regret that I don't recall who - mentioned a tool that scrapes a US newspaper for obituaries, and matches them to Wikipedia articles (or highlights missing Wikipedia articles).
It was suggested that we might have a UK equivalent.
On checking, I see that the Guardian have an RSS feed for their obituaries:
https://www.theguardian.com/tone/obituaries/rss
Is anyone interested in working on such a tool (or adapting the US one)?
Would that be "Passing On http://passingon.natematias.com/"?
On 21 February 2017 at 15:23, Andy Mabbett andy@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote:
At the WMUK education summit yesterday somebody - I regret that I don't recall who - mentioned a tool that scrapes a US newspaper for obituaries, and matches them to Wikipedia articles (or highlights missing Wikipedia articles).
It was suggested that we might have a UK equivalent.
On checking, I see that the Guardian have an RSS feed for their obituaries:
https://www.theguardian.com/tone/obituaries/rss
Is anyone interested in working on such a tool (or adapting the US one)?
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Could be my find-a-grave tool? https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/recent_deaths.html
On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 3:52 PM Richard Nevell < richard.nevell@wikimedia.org.uk> wrote:
Would that be "Passing On http://passingon.natematias.com/"?
On 21 February 2017 at 15:23, Andy Mabbett andy@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote:
At the WMUK education summit yesterday somebody - I regret that I don't recall who - mentioned a tool that scrapes a US newspaper for obituaries, and matches them to Wikipedia articles (or highlights missing Wikipedia articles).
It was suggested that we might have a UK equivalent.
On checking, I see that the Guardian have an RSS feed for their obituaries:
https://www.theguardian.com/tone/obituaries/rss
Is anyone interested in working on such a tool (or adapting the US one)?
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On 21 February 2017 at 15:51, Richard Nevell < richard.nevell@wikimedia.org.uk> wrote:
Would that be "Passing On http://passingon.natematias.com/"?
Yes, I think that was it.
I'm not keen on that interface, now I've seen it, and had something simpler in mind.
Hi Andy,
How about something like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Mike_Peel/Guardian_obits https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Mike_Peel/Guardian_obits
There seem to be some redlinks showing up there!
Other sources might be a bit more difficult to incorporate. E.g., the Independent's obit RSS feed is empty, and the Telegraph don't seem to have one...
Thanks, Mike
On 21 Feb 2017, at 12:23, Andy Mabbett andy@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote:
At the WMUK education summit yesterday somebody - I regret that I don't recall who - mentioned a tool that scrapes a US newspaper for obituaries, and matches them to Wikipedia articles (or highlights missing Wikipedia articles).
It was suggested that we might have a UK equivalent.
On checking, I see that the Guardian have an RSS feed for their obituaries:
https://www.theguardian.com/tone/obituaries/rss https://www.theguardian.com/tone/obituaries/rss
Is anyone interested in working on such a tool (or adapting the US one)?
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On 26 February 2017 at 21:33, Michael Peel email@mikepeel.net wrote:
How about something like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Mike_Peel/Guardian_obits
Wow. Yes, exactly that. Thank you.
The pre-formatted ref templates are a nice touch.
Some feature requests; adding columns for:
* Wikidata ID, if any. * {{Find sources multi}} (or a similar template) * Death date on Wikidata, if any. Maybe a red warning if item exists, but no date present.
if possible, please.
On 26 Feb 2017, at 20:14, Andy Mabbett andy@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote:
On 26 February 2017 at 21:33, Michael Peel email@mikepeel.net wrote:
How about something like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Mike_Peel/Guardian_obits
Wow. Yes, exactly that. Thank you.
The pre-formatted ref templates are a nice touch.
Some feature requests; adding columns for:
- Wikidata ID, if any.
- {{Find sources multi}} (or a similar template)
- Death date on Wikidata, if any. Maybe a red warning if item exists,
but no date present.
if possible, please.
{{done}}
Thanks, Mike
On 27 February 2017 at 00:55, Michael Peel email@mikepeel.net wrote:
- Wikidata ID, if any.
- {{Find sources multi}} (or a similar template)
- Death date on Wikidata, if any. Maybe a red warning if item exists,
but no date present.
if possible, please.
{{done}}
Even better, thank you.
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