Hi Alek, Not every language version of Wikipedia has such categories, but at least 80 do. You can find a list at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Death_anomalies_table of the eighty or so dead people categories - died in 1941 will be a subcategory of that. Someone with toolserver access could probably extract a list for you of all the people we have minus duplicates across languages. You could file a request for such a report at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Database_reports
But this will only give you notable people who died in a particular year, if you want a list of people who died in a particular year you are better off looking at genealogy sites, and for 1941 military war grave sites. Tens of millions of people died that year and I doubt that we have even 0.1% of them. Hope that helps WereSpielChequers 2011/12/23 Jérémie Roquet <[email protected]> > Hi Alek, > > 2011/12/23 Alek Tarkowski <[email protected]>: > > 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? > > It's likely that most of those people are in a category¹ . Since no > category is ever complete, mixing the content of the category with the > equivalent of the biggest Wikipedia (German, French…²) could help. > Finding the equivalent categories is easy: start at ¹, then use the > interwiki links under “languages” in the left column. Also, don't > forget commons³. > > Best regards, > > ¹ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:1941_deaths > ² https://www.wikipedia.org/ > ³ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:1941_deaths > > -- > Jérémie > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l >
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