This page is currently inactive and is retained for
historical reference. Either the page is no longer relevant or consensus on its purpose has become unclear. To revive discussion, seek broader input via a forum such as the village pump. |
Persondata was deprecated by this RfC, which closed on May 26, 2015. |
Persondata was a special set of metadata that could be added to biographical articles only. It has now been removed. From now on, such data should be added, with a citation, to Wikidata instead.
It consisted of standardized data fields with basic information about the person: name, short description, birth and death dates, and places of birth and death. This structured format, unlike the main body of the article, was designed to facilitate automatic data extraction.
Adding the {{Persondata}}
template to a biographical article did not affect its normal display, since the information was not meant to be read by human beings and remained hidden unless users changed their personal stylesheet specifically for it to appear.
A WikiProject worked to improve the usage of Persondata, WikiProject Persondata.
One of the primary issues with Persondata is that the data is invisible which meant that casual editors were unaware of the existence of the Persondata template. If the information is not visible in the article, people will not necessarily be aware to keep it up-to-date. However this also meant it was useful for anti-vandalism.
Wikidata is a sister project to Wikipedia, which holds data about subjects. Usable information from Persondata was partially copied to Wikidata. An RFC officially deprecated Persondata. Do not add new Persondata templates to pages. The consensus is now to remove Persondata from articles. You are encouraged to get involved with Wikidata.
Parameter | Type | Property ID |
---|---|---|
NAME | Firstname Lastname | label (e.g. Michel Velleman (Q151605)) |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Other Name1, Othername2 | alias |
SHORT DESCRIPTION | Claim to fame | description |
DATE OF BIRTH | day or year of birth | p569 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | birthplace | p19 |
DATE OF DEATH | day or year of death | p570 |
PLACE OF DEATH | deathplace | p20 |
Some data was found not to have been copied completely to Wikidata. Kaspar's tool dead link has the entirety of the remaining data set and provides semi-automatic migration. The tool contains descriptions, aliases, places, and dates in different sections. The information is stored as 'challenges' which are shown randomly to the user. On every challenge, the user chooses one of the following options:
User choices are processed via OAuth and appear on the user contribution page on Wikidata.
This page is currently inactive and is retained for
historical reference. Either the page is no longer relevant or consensus on its purpose has become unclear. To revive discussion, seek broader input via a forum such as the village pump. |
Persondata was deprecated by this RfC, which closed on May 26, 2015. |
Persondata was a special set of metadata that could be added to biographical articles only. It has now been removed. From now on, such data should be added, with a citation, to Wikidata instead.
It consisted of standardized data fields with basic information about the person: name, short description, birth and death dates, and places of birth and death. This structured format, unlike the main body of the article, was designed to facilitate automatic data extraction.
Adding the {{Persondata}}
template to a biographical article did not affect its normal display, since the information was not meant to be read by human beings and remained hidden unless users changed their personal stylesheet specifically for it to appear.
A WikiProject worked to improve the usage of Persondata, WikiProject Persondata.
One of the primary issues with Persondata is that the data is invisible which meant that casual editors were unaware of the existence of the Persondata template. If the information is not visible in the article, people will not necessarily be aware to keep it up-to-date. However this also meant it was useful for anti-vandalism.
Wikidata is a sister project to Wikipedia, which holds data about subjects. Usable information from Persondata was partially copied to Wikidata. An RFC officially deprecated Persondata. Do not add new Persondata templates to pages. The consensus is now to remove Persondata from articles. You are encouraged to get involved with Wikidata.
Parameter | Type | Property ID |
---|---|---|
NAME | Firstname Lastname | label (e.g. Michel Velleman (Q151605)) |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Other Name1, Othername2 | alias |
SHORT DESCRIPTION | Claim to fame | description |
DATE OF BIRTH | day or year of birth | p569 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | birthplace | p19 |
DATE OF DEATH | day or year of death | p570 |
PLACE OF DEATH | deathplace | p20 |
Some data was found not to have been copied completely to Wikidata. Kaspar's tool dead link has the entirety of the remaining data set and provides semi-automatic migration. The tool contains descriptions, aliases, places, and dates in different sections. The information is stored as 'challenges' which are shown randomly to the user. On every challenge, the user chooses one of the following options:
User choices are processed via OAuth and appear on the user contribution page on Wikidata.