There's a category for that sort of thing: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:1941_deaths
Other wikis might have similar categories. FT2 On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 12:35 PM, Alek Tarkowski < [email protected]> wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I've been until now a lurker on this list, let me introduce myself - I'm > a sociologist studying digital technologies, an activist (I run Creative > Commons Poland) and I run a digital think tank / NGO in Poland. > > I'm hoping someone on this list might be able to help me: I'm involved > in the celebrations of the Public Domain Day - on the 1st of January > each year works pass into the public domain of authors who've died 70 > years ago (at least in Poland, and in most countries, but it might > differ in some jurisdictions). > > I'm looking for a good way to determine, who died in 1941 - and thought > that Wikipedia will be a good place to find this out. I know there are > lists of people who died in a given year, but they are not complete. Is > there any way to automatically query Wikipedia for such information? I > know that it's to some extent structured, as this information is > provided in templates for biographical articles, but I don't know > whether there is any mechanism for querying? > > Any advice will be much appreciated. > > All the best, > > Alek > > -- > dyrektor, Centrum Cyfrowe Projekt: Polska > www: http://centrumcyfrowe.pl > identi.ca / twitter: @centrumcyfrowe > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l >
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