On 3 August 2015 at 08:04, Magnus Manske <magnusmanske(a)googlemail.com>
wrote:
I had hoped we were beyond manual lists and
English-Wikipedia-only
mentality...
They still have their uses, e.g.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Charles_Matthews/Longer_DNB
and
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:WikiProject_Dictionary…
within the "DNB universe" alone. But I can testify that these are
labour-intensive efforts. Putting data into Wikidata, and pulling it out in
a custom fashion via queries, is hugely slicker.
Charles