[WikiEN-l] Persondata?

Tue Jul 11 16:04:42 UTC 2006

---- 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