[Wikitech-l] Getting birthday from the sidebar of a wiki page and showing in the home page

2013-10-03 Thread Shrinivasan T
The side bar of any famous person in Tamil wikipedia has the birthday of the person. Example: https://ta.wikipedia.org/s/im6 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagesh Is there any way to notify this in the front/home page of the Tamil wikipedia ? Just like a Today in history etc. Thanks. --

Re: [Wikitech-l] Getting birthday from the sidebar of a wiki page and showing in the home page

2013-10-03 Thread Mark A. Hershberger
On 10/03/2013 09:02 AM, Shrinivasan T wrote: The side bar of any famous person in Tamil wikipedia has the birthday of the person. Example: https://ta.wikipedia.org/s/im6 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagesh Is there any way to notify this in the front/home page of the Tamil wikipedia ?

Re: [Wikitech-l] Getting birthday from the sidebar of a wiki page and showing in the home page

2013-10-03 Thread Shrinivasan T
Wikidata + JS to the rescue!?? Thanks for the reply. I am very new to the wikidata. Please explain little more on how to access the data in the sidebar to get details of the date using wikidata. -- Regards, T.Shrinivasan My Life with GNU/Linux : http://goinggnu.wordpress.com Free

Re: [Wikitech-l] Getting birthday from the sidebar of a wiki page and showing in the home page

2013-10-03 Thread Mark A. Hershberger
On 10/03/2013 09:18 AM, Shrinivasan T wrote: Wikidata + JS to the rescue!?? Thanks for the reply. I am very new to the wikidata. Me too. Unfortunately I don't see a way to get this information any API query. You can find someone's birthday, but I don't see a way to look for entities that

Re: [Wikitech-l] Getting birthday from the sidebar of a wiki page and showing in the home page

2013-10-03 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, There are many ways of doing this.. However, when you want this to work for you, it takes a big effort to make this happen. Long term you may have to do the least by using Wikidata. Thanks, Gerard On 3 October 2013 15:02, Shrinivasan T tshriniva...@gmail.com wrote: The side bar of

Re: [Wikitech-l] Getting birthday from the sidebar of a wiki page and showing in the home page

2013-10-03 Thread John Vandenberg
On Oct 3, 2013 10:05 PM, Mark A. Hershberger m...@everybody.org wrote: On 10/03/2013 09:18 AM, Shrinivasan T wrote: Wikidata + JS to the rescue!?? Thanks for the reply. I am very new to the wikidata. Me too. Unfortunately I don't see a way to get this information any API query.

Re: [Wikitech-l] Getting birthday from the sidebar of a wiki page and showing in the home page

2013-10-03 Thread BinĂ¡ris
2013/10/3 John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com An automated sidebar that includes any entities that have a significant date on todays day would be useful for small projects that dont want to spend lots of time building a hand-picked list. A half-way solution between automated sidebars and

Re: [Wikitech-l] Getting birthday from the sidebar of a wiki page and showing in the home page

2013-10-03 Thread Shrinivasan T
Thanks for the info friends. I want to get the date info from the infobox. not from the sidebar, as I told in my initial mail. Now only I knew about the sidebar. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Sidebar On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 10:02 PM, BinĂ¡ris wikipo...@gmail.com wrote: 2013/10/3 John

Re: [Wikitech-l] Getting birthday from the sidebar of a wiki page and showing in the home page

2013-10-03 Thread legoktm
On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 8:05 AM, Mark A. Hershberger m...@everybody.orgwrote: Unfortunately I don't see a way to get this information any API query. You can find someone's birthday, but I don't see a way to look for entities that are people (P735 -- personal name) with birthdays (P569).