[WikiEN-l] Persondata?

[Oldak Quill]

I would say that most of the very basic data persondata is concerned with is
largely correct. I have found that simple things like birth and death dates
are usually correct. However, since this tool is human mediated, it may be a
good opportunity to verify basic information provided by many of our
biographies.

On 11/07/06, poore5 at adelphia.net <poore5 at adelphia.net> wrote:
>
> ---- Magnus Manske <magnus.manske at web.de> wrote:
> > Kirill Lokshin schrieb:
> > > On 7/11/06, Magnus Manske <magnus.manske at 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
>
> 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.
>
> Regards,
> Sydney Poore
>
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