Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Guardian obituaries feed

2017-02-27 Thread Andy Mabbett
On 27 February 2017 at 00:55, Michael Peel wrote: >> * Wikidata ID, if any. >> * {{Find sources multi}} (or a similar template) >> * Death date on Wikidata, if any. Maybe a red warning if item exists, >> but no date present. >> >> if possible, please. > > > {{done}} Even better, thank you. -- A

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Guardian obituaries feed

2017-02-26 Thread Michael Peel
> On 26 Feb 2017, at 20:14, Andy Mabbett wrote: > > On 26 February 2017 at 21:33, Michael Peel wrote: > >> How about something like this: >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Mike_Peel/Guardian_obits > > Wow. Yes, exactly that. Thank you. > > The pre-formatted ref templates are a nice touch

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Guardian obituaries feed

2017-02-26 Thread Andy Mabbett
On 26 February 2017 at 21:33, Michael Peel wrote: > How about something like this: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Mike_Peel/Guardian_obits Wow. Yes, exactly that. Thank you. The pre-formatted ref templates are a nice touch. Some feature requests; adding columns for: * Wikidata ID, if an

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Guardian obituaries feed

2017-02-26 Thread Michael Peel
Hi Andy, How about something like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Mike_Peel/Guardian_obits There seem to be some redlinks showing up there! Other sources might be a bit more difficult to incorporate. E.g., the Independent's

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Guardian obituaries feed

2017-02-22 Thread Gordon Joly
Any source? Some bad language therein http://alt.obituaries.narkive.com/ Gordo ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Guardian obituaries feed

2017-02-21 Thread Andy Mabbett
On 21 February 2017 at 15:51, Richard Nevell < richard.nev...@wikimedia.org.uk> wrote: Would that be "Passing On "? > Yes, I think that was it. I'm not keen on that interface, now I've seen it, and had something simpler in mind. -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Guardian obituaries feed

2017-02-21 Thread Magnus Manske
Could be my find-a-grave tool? https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/recent_deaths.html On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 3:52 PM Richard Nevell < richard.nev...@wikimedia.org.uk> wrote: > Would that be "Passing On "? > > On 21 February 2017 at 15:23, Andy Mabbett > wro

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Guardian obituaries feed

2017-02-21 Thread Richard Nevell
Would that be "Passing On "? On 21 February 2017 at 15:23, Andy Mabbett wrote: > At the WMUK education summit yesterday somebody - I regret that I don't > recall who - mentioned a tool that scrapes a US newspaper for obituaries, > and matches them to Wikipedia a

[Wikimediauk-l] Guardian obituaries feed

2017-02-21 Thread Andy Mabbett
At the WMUK education summit yesterday somebody - I regret that I don't recall who - mentioned a tool that scrapes a US newspaper for obituaries, and matches them to Wikipedia articles (or highlights missing Wikipedia articles). It was suggested that we might have a UK equivalent. On checking, I