Welcome to WikiProject Persondata. Some Wikipedians have formed this collaboration resource and group dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of WikiProject Persondata and the organization of information and articles on this topic. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions and various resources; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians interested in the topic. If you would like to help, please join the project, inquire on the talk page and see the to-do list below.
[edit] What is Persondata?
One of the first things you may think about when stumbling across this page is 'What is Persondata?' Well, you can see Wikipedia:Persondata for in-depth explanations, but Persondata is basically metadata which is added to the bottom of biographical articles. It's important for Wikipedia maintenance and the possibility of a Wikipedia comprehensive CD-ROM. As of May 8, 2008, the German Wikipedia has over 188,000 articles tagged with Persondata - as of July 20, 2009, we have approximately 43,000 articles with persondata.
Let's see if we can beat the German language Wikipedia by 2011.
Important: To view Persondata, you must tinker with your account settings:
- Go to Special:Mypage/monobook.css (replace 'monobook' with the skin you are using - most people are using monobook as the default)
- Copy-paste the following into your monobook.css: "table.persondata {display:table !important;}" (without the quotes), or, if you are using Internet Explorer, copy and paste this variation instead: "table.persondata {display:block;}" (without the quotes).
- Save the page.
- Now, bypass your browser's cache. This can be achieved in Internet Explorer by pressing Ctrl+F5. See Wikipedia:Bypass your cache for more information and instructions for other browsers.
[edit] Uses of Persondata
18 December 2007: A list of biographies has been constructed, and can be found at /List of biographies. Be aware that this list includes articles which already have persondata, and also biographical articles about groups of people (e.g. bands) which should not be given persondata.
8.2% completed -
- To make adding Persondata to a biography as commonplace as adding an infobox.
- To ensure that persondata is verified and maintained.
This project covers every biography on Wikipedia.
[edit] Guidelines
The persondata template should be appended to each article between the end of the main body and the start of the categories (or, if present, before the DEFAULTSORT template). The template fields should be filled in where they apply. Where they do not, the field should be left blank, but not deleted. For example, in the case of a living person:
{{Persondata |NAME = Smillie, Carol |ALTERNATIVE NAMES = |SHORT DESCRIPTION = Scottish television presenter |DATE OF BIRTH = 23 December 1961 |PLACE OF BIRTH = [[Glasgow]], [[Scotland]] |DATE OF DEATH = |PLACE OF DEATH = }} The name entries take the form Surname, Forename(s), Title. If more than one name is being listed (in the ALTERNATIVE NAMES field) they should be separated by a semi-colon. The wikilinks in the fields are not mandatory, but may perform a useful purpose in the future.
[edit] Open tasks
[edit] Participants
Please feel free to add yourself here, and to indicate any areas of particular interest.
- Merrieman (talk • contribs • count) Anything...
- Paleorthid (talk • contribs • count) Scientists
- Trevy510 (talk • contribs • count) Whatever I find!
- awotter (talk • contribs • count) (Will pass on to Project Oregon)
- Mouchoir le Souris (talk • contribs • count) Any and all I come upon
- Teleomatic (talk • contribs • count) Writers
- A.Ou (talk • contribs • count) Historical figures
- Saranghae honey (talk • contribs • count) whatever I find?
- Kakofonous (talk • contribs • count) Anything at all.
- robwingfield (talk • contribs • count) Footballers.
- Zhukora (talk • contribs • count) Historical figures, people I come across.
- edgarde (talk • contribs • count) Bad articles.
- Pinkadelica (talk • contribs • count) All bios I work on or come across
- Robomod (talk • contribs • count) Actors, fashion models, photographers, designers etc
- Lugnuts (talk • contribs • count) All actor, director, screenwriter bios, etc I create/modify
- Islandbaygardener (talk • contribs • count) (Artists - anyone dead)
- Jkj115 (talk • contribs • count) Random, I'll add whoever I find
- Scott5114 (talk • contribs • count)
- Pjoef (talk • contribs • count) (Anything...)
- jeffozvold (talk • contribs • count) Anything I find.
- BookishAcolyte (talk • contribs • count) Japanese folks, especially actors, musicians, artists...
- Chendy (talk • contribs • count) Politics, Journalists & businessleaders
- Mdebets (talk • contribs • count) Musicians and historical figures I come accross
- Rajah (talk • contribs • count)
- ukexpat (talk • contribs • count) Anything.
- Eric Shalov (talk • contribs • count) Starting with my own articles..
- 70.186.172.75 (talk • contribs • count) All bios.
- Alexander Gieg (talk • contribs • count) Any biographical article I come across that interests me enough. Most are in the Philosophy and Religion areas.
- -Majestic- (talk • contribs • count) Whenever I find.
- Rosiestep (talk • contribs • count) Historical figures.
- Burntfingers (talk • contribs • count) Any bios I come across.
- Warrickball (talk • contribs • count) Whatever I encounter.
- Spider1224 (talk • contribs • count) Whatever strikes my fancy on a particular day.
- Road Wizard (talk • contribs • count) Anything
- Spencer (talk • contribs • count) All biographies.
- AllynJ (talk • contribs • count) Sportspeople, epecially cricket, football, baseball, American football.
- LelandRB (talk • contribs • count) Anythang
- Tadramgo (talk • contribs • count) Whatever I find
- Momoricks (talk • contribs • count) (I'll add it to any biographical article I encounter, particularly serial killers and criminals, as I encounter those often via WikiProject Crime and Criminal Biography.)
- Joshua Issac (talk • contribs • count) - joined 01:32, 10 December 2008 (UTC). I'll add it to biographies without them if I notice.
- Dendodge (talk • contribs • count) - anything I come across (which will most likely be somehow related to The Beatles
- NoVomit (talk • contribs • count)
- Scapler (talk • contribs • count) - Any biographical entry I come across without it! Cheers! Scapler (talk) 03:41, 28 January 2009 (UTC)
- Deejayk (talk • contribs • count) music, sports, Seattle, Montana, etc.
- johndburger (talk • contribs • count) Any biog article I edit. Also interested in using Persondata for Navibot
- Kumioko (talk • contribs • count) - Typically US Military bio's. Already did the Medal of Honor recipients, USMC Commandants and Union army generals. Currently working on USMC Bio's.
- Atlantima (talk • contribs • count) - Like, whatevs.
- Menasim (talk • contribs • count) - Anything
- Tomaxer (talk • contribs • count) - Mostly composers.
- Ryft (talk • contribs • count) - Science, philosophy, history, Sirius XM Radio.
- Ched Davis (talk • contribs • count) - This is new to me, but I'll try to do what I can.
- Bmatthewshea (talk • contribs • count) - Will try and add some to Bio's I find needing them (EN)
- Unionhawk (talk • contribs • count) - Whatever I find.
- MaBu (talk • contribs • count) - Whatever I find, or whatever is bad for parsing.
- Scarce (talk • contribs • count) - Entertainers, mainly actors
- Arina.Moroz (talk • contribs • count) - Russians
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