Wikipedia:WikiProject Persondata

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Welcome to WikiProject Persondata. Some Wikipedians have formed this collaboration resource and group dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of WikiProject Persondata and the organization of information and articles on this topic. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions and various resources; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians interested in the topic. If you would like to help, please join the project, inquire on the talk page and see the to-do list below.

What is Persondata?

One of the first things you may think about when stumbling across this page is 'What is Persondata?' Well, you can see Wikipedia:Persondata for in-depth explanations, but Persondata is basically metadata which is added to the bottom of biographical articles. It's important for Wikipedia maintenance and the possibility of a Wikipedia comprehensive CD-ROM. As of May 8, 2008, the German Wikipedia has over 188,000 articles tagged with Persondata - as of October 25, 2008, we have approximately 30,000 articles with persondata.

Let's see if we can beat the German language Wikipedia by 2010.

Important: To view Persondata, you must tinker with your account settings:

1. Go to Special:Mypage/monobook.css (replace 'monobook' with the skin you are using - most people are using monobook as the default)
2. Copy-paste the following into your monobook.css: "table.persondata {display:table;}" (without the quotes), or, if you are using Internet Explorer, copy and paste this variation instead: "table.persondata {display:block;}" (without the quotes).
3. Save the page.
4. Now, bypass your browser's cache. This can be achieved in Internet Explorer by pressing Ctrl+F5. See Wikipedia:Bypass your cache for more information and instructions for other browsers.

Uses of Persondata

• http://ccgi.arutherford.plus.com/website/flex/dbPedia/sparqlQueryViewer/# (Click execute in the top left to get all people born in Berlin before 1900)
• http://wiki.dbpedia.org/UseCases#h19-2
• http://wiki.dbpedia.org/Downloads31#persondata

News

18 December 2007: A list of biographies has been constructed, and can be found at /List of biographies. Be aware that this list includes articles which already have persondata, and also biographical articles about groups of people (e.g. bands) which should not be given persondata.

Goals

• To tag every biography with {{persondata}} (see Wikipedia:Persondata).

• • To make adding Persondata to a biography as commonplace as adding an infobox.
  • To ensure that persondata is verified and maintained.

Scope

This project covers every biography on Wikipedia.

Guidelines

Main article: Wikipedia:Persondata

The persondata template should be appended to each article between the end of the main body and the start of the categories (or, if present, before the DEFAULTSORT template). The template fields should be filled in where they apply. Where they do not, the field should be left blank, but not deleted. For example, in the case of a living person:

{{Persondata
|NAME              = Smillie, Carol
|ALTERNATIVE NAMES = 
|SHORT DESCRIPTION = Scottish television presenter
|DATE OF BIRTH     = [[23 December]] [[1961]]
|PLACE OF BIRTH    = [[Glasgow]], [[Scotland]]
|DATE OF DEATH     = 
|PLACE OF DEATH    = 
}}

The name entries take the form Surname, Forename(s), Title. If more than one name is being listed (in the ALTERNATIVE NAMES field) they should be separated by a semi-colon. The wikilinks in the fields are not mandatory, but may perform a useful purpose in the future.

Open tasks

To-do list for Wikipedia:WikiProject Persondata:	edit · history · watch · refresh
Here are some tasks you can do: Other: Tag any biography with {{persondata}} (see Wikipedia:Persondata).

Participants

Please feel free to add yourself here, and to indicate any areas of particular interest.

1. Merrieman (talk • contribs • count) Anything...
2. Paleorthid (talk • contribs • count) Scientists
3. Trevy510 (talk • contribs • count) Whatever I find!
4. awotter (talk • contribs • count) (Will pass on to Project Oregon)
5. Mouchoir le Souris (talk • contribs • count) Any and all I come upon
6. Teleomatic (talk • contribs • count) Writers
7. A.Ou (talk • contribs • count) Historical figures
8. Saranghae honey (talk • contribs • count) whatever I find?
9. Kakofonous (talk • contribs • count) Anything at all.
10. robwingfield (talk • contribs • count) Footballers.
11. Zhukora (talk • contribs • count) Historical figures, people I come across.
12. edgarde (talk • contribs • count) Bad articles.
13. Pinkadelica (talk • contribs • count) All bios I work on or come across
14. Robomod (talk • contribs • count) Actors, fashion models, photographers, designers etc
15. Lugnuts (talk • contribs • count) All actor, director, screenwriter bios, etc I create/modify
16. Islandbaygardener (talk • contribs • count) (Artists - anyone dead)
17. Jkj115 (talk • contribs • count) Random, I'll add whoever I find
18. Scott5114 (talk • contribs • count)
19. Pjoef (talk • contribs • count) (Anything...)
20. jeffozvold (talk • contribs • count) Anything I find.
21. BookishAcolyte (talk • contribs • count) Japanese folks, especially actors, musicians, artists...
22. Chendy (talk • contribs • count) Politics, Journalists & businessleaders
23. Mdebets (talk • contribs • count) Musicians and historical figures I come accross
24. Rajah (talk • contribs • count)
25. ukexpat (talk • contribs • count) Anything.
26. Eric Shalov (talk • contribs • count) Starting with my own articles..
27. 70.186.172.75  (talk • contribs • count) All bios.
28. Alexander Gieg (talk • contribs • count) Any biographical article I come across that interests me enough. Most are in the Philosophy and Religion areas.
29. -Majestic- (talk • contribs • count) Whenever I find.
30. Rosiestep (talk • contribs • count) Historical figures.
31. Burntfingers (talk • contribs • count) Any bios I come across.
32. Warrickball (talk • contribs • count) Whatever I encounter.
33. Spider1224 (talk • contribs • count) Whatever strikes my fancy on a particular day.
34. Road Wizard (talk • contribs • count) Anything
35. Spencer (talk • contribs • count) All biographies.
36. AllynJ (talk • contribs • count) Sportspeople, epecially cricket, football, baseball, American football.
37. LelandRB (talk • contribs • count) Anythang
38. Tadramgo (talk • contribs • count) Whatever I find
39. Momoricks (talk • contribs • count) (I'll add it to any biographical article I encounter, particularly serial killers and criminals, as I encounter those often via WikiProject Crime and Criminal Biography.)

Templates

• {{Persondata}}
• Add {{User Persondata}} to your userpage to produce a wonderful userbox to show your pride in the project.

Resources

• /List of biographies - list of all 455 966 biographical articles as of 18 December 2007
• Whatlinkshere - Template:Persondata
• Living people - Category of articles relating to living people, many of which do not have persondata
• User talk:Dr pda/persondata.js - script to aid in the semi-automated addition of persondata
• Persondata Generator. Automatically generates persondata from information in articles.

Related projects

• WikiProject Biography