Wikidata:Requests for permissions/Bot/VesihiisiBot

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 Approved--Ymblanter (talk) 21:31, 10 November 2016 (UTC)

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VesihiisiBot

VesihiisiBot (talk • contribs • new items • new lexemes • SUL • Block log • User rights log • User rights • xtools)
Operator: Vesihiisi (talk • contribs • logs)

Task/s: Import birth and death dates of people from Wikipedia.

Code: Github, based on Pywikibot

Function details:

• Find birth and death dates in biographical articles on the Swedish, Norwegian (bokmål), Danish and Polish Wikipedias, using a list of people without P569.
• Check if the Wikidata item is marked as Q5 and missing P569. If a death date is found in the Wikipedia article, check if the item is missing P570 as well.
• Only dates in the format "[born/dead] day month year" or "[born/dead] year" are processed, so if there's anything extra, like "circa" or "probably", the article will be skipped.
• Add the dates with P143 and the applicable Wikipedia version as a reference.

--Vesihiisi (talk) 14:24, 2 November 2016 (UTC)

I am going to approve the bot in a couple of days provided there have been no objections raised.--Ymblanter (talk) 11:49, 6 November 2016 (UTC)

@Vesihiisi: You should pay attention which calendar system was used. This date is most probable not in Gregorian calendar. If your source doesn't state it, you should probably only add dates from the 20th/21st century. --Pasleim (talk) 16:07, 8 November 2016 (UTC)

@Pasleim: Thank you, I'm going to look into it. Looks like sticking to years from 1923 onwards would be the only way to be sure. --Vesihiisi (talk) 07:41, 9 November 2016 (UTC)

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