Hi Alek,
Not every language version of Wikipedia has such categories, but at least
80 do. You can find a list at
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Death_anomalies_table of the eighty or so
dead people categories - died in 1941 will be a subcategory of that.
Someone with toolserver access could probably extract a list for you of all
the people we have minus duplicates across languages. You could file a
request for such a report at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Database_reports
But this will only give you notable people who died in a particular year,
if you want a list of people who died in a particular year you are better
off looking at genealogy sites, and for 1941 military war grave sites. Tens
of millions of people died that year and I doubt that we have even 0.1% of
them.
Hope that helps
WereSpielChequers
2011/12/23 Jérémie Roquet <arkanosis(a)gmail.com>
Hi Alek,
2011/12/23 Alek Tarkowski <atarkowski(a)centrumcyfrowe.pl>pl>:
I'm looking for a good way to determine, who
died in 1941 - and thought
that Wikipedia will be a good place to find this out. I know there are
lists of people who died in a given year, but they are not complete. Is
there any way to automatically query Wikipedia for such information? I
know that it's to some extent structured, as this information is
provided in templates for biographical articles, but I don't know
whether there is any mechanism for querying?
It's likely that most of those people are in a category¹ . Since no
category is ever complete, mixing the content of the category with the
equivalent of the biggest Wikipedia (German, French…²) could help.
Finding the equivalent categories is easy: start at ¹, then use the
interwiki links under “languages” in the left column. Also, don't
forget commons³.
Best regards,
¹
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:1941_deaths
²
https://www.wikipedia.org/
³
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:1941_deaths
--
Jérémie
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