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 <http://passingon.natematias.com/>"?
>
> On 21 February 2017 at 15:23, Andy Mabbett <a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk>
> 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 articles (or highlights missing Wikipedia
> articles).
>
> It was suggested that we might have a UK equivalent.
>
> On checking, I see that the Guardian have an RSS feed for their obituaries:
>
>   https://www.theguardian.com/tone/obituaries/rss
>
> Is anyone interested in working on such a tool (or adapting the US one)?
>
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