[Foundation-l] [Commons-l] Wikidata

Thu Nov 25 01:04:43 UTC 2010

Marc Riddell wrote:
> on 11/24/10 7:25 PM, WJhonson at aol.com at WJhonson at aol.com wrote:
>
>> In a message dated 11/24/2010 4:11:03 PM Pacific Standard Time,
>> michaeldavid86 at comcast.net writes:
>>
>>
>>> I just pulled up the Articles on two actors who I know died in
>>> 1970. One was
>>> in the Category "English Film Actors" and the other in "American
>>> Film Actors".
>>>
>>
>>
>> The category intersect PHP is very finicky.
>> You have to use the right case.
>>
>> "American film actors" and "1970 deaths"
>>
>> NOW I get a list of 61 articles
>>
>>
>> W
>
>
> Unless we're both missing something, I think you've hit on an
> important issue the tech people should look at. I would make the
> encyclopedia an even better tool for research.
>
> M

Agreed, Toolserver is pretty much "take it as you find it", although full 
marks to its contributors for making the effort. However, it is, like some 
stuff around here, unsupported by Wikimedia other than they host it.