Wikipedia:WikiProject Persondata

Welcome to WikiProject Persondata. Some Wikipedians formed this collaboration resource and group dedicated to improving Wikipedia's use of Persondata, a hidden template used to store biographical information as metadata.

In May 2015, it was decided that Wikidata had rendered Persondata superfluous, and its removal from Wikipedia is now complete.

What was Persondata?

What is Wikidata?

Wikidata is a sister project to Wikipedia, which holds data about subjects. Usable information from Persondata has been copied to Wikidata, and Persondata is now deprecated - see the RfC at Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)/Archive 122#RfC: Should Persondata template be deprecated and methodically removed from articles?. Therefore, please do not add new Persondata templates to pages. The consensus is that Persondata is no longer to be used in articles. You are encouraged to get involved with Wikidata.

News

26 May 2015
Persondata has been deprecated by this RfC and will be removed from Wikipedia shortly.
23 November 2015
The Persondata data set is available for semi-automatic migration to Wikidata on Kaspar's tool page. Users are kindly asked to help with the migration to Wikidata.
31 January 2016
The Persondata template is removed from all articles by KasparBot. See RfA. Users are kindly asked to help with the migration to Wikidata on Kaspar's tool page.


Former participants

  1. A.Ou (talk · contribs · count) Historical figures
  2. Anubhab91 (talk · contribs · count) Whatever
  3. Argento Surfer (talk · contribs · count) - Writers, cartoonists, and artists
  4. Argolin (talk · contribs · count) - Canadian music; other Canadians sure: I'm there
  5. awotter (talk · contribs · count) (Will pass on to Project Oregon)
  6. Bmatthewshea (talk · contribs · count) - Will try and add some to Bio's I find needing them (EN)
  7. Brainy J (talk · contribs · count) - Like, whatevs.
  8. Burntfingers (talk · contribs · count) Any bios I come across.
  9. Buttons to Push Buttons (talk · contribs · count) Sportspeople, epecially cricket, football, baseball, American football.
  10. Callanecc (talk · contribs · count)
  11. Ched (talk · contribs · count) - This is new to me, but I'll try to do what I can.
  12. Chendy (talk · contribs · count) Politics, Journalists & businessleaders
  13. ChrisGualtieri (talk · contribs · count) Clear the backlogs.
  14. Darylgolden (talk · contribs · count) Anything.
  15. Deejayk (talk · contribs · count) music, sports, Seattle, Montana, etc.
  16. Dendodge (talk · contribs · count) - anything I come across (which will most likely be somehow related to The Beatles
  17. Deyyaz (talk · contribs · count) Anything I can find
  18. edgarde (talk · contribs · count) Bad articles.
  19. Enock4seth (talk · contribs · count) Any parameter on any bio.
  20. Eric Shalov (talk · contribs · count) Starting with my own articles..
  21. Fylbecatulous (talk · contribs · count) As I discover the issue while vandal fighting; moreover, when I have down time
  22. Fox Wilson (talk · contribs · count) Software to help the project, maybe different detection than Persondata-o-matic
  23. Gnu_andrew (talk · contribs · count) Anything I find
  24. Grumpycraig (talk · contribs · count) Persondata_templates_without_short_description_parameter
  25. ilamb94 (talk · contribs · count) - Articles I create
  26. Islandbaygardener (talk · contribs · count) (Artists - anyone dead)
  27. johndburger (talk · contribs · count) Any biog article I edit. Also interested in using Persondata for Navibot
  28. Joshua Issac (talk · contribs · count) - joined 01:32, 10 December 2008 (UTC). I'll add it to biographies without them if I notice.
  29. JudyCS (talk · contribs · count) Biographies, "notable lives" of all kinds
  30. Lemnaminor (talk · contribs · count)
  31. Lugnuts (talk · contribs · count) All actor, director, screenwriter bios, etc I create/modify
  32. Mardochaios (talk · contribs · count) - Mostly articles from other projects I'm helping with
  33. Menasim (talk · contribs · count) - Anything
  34. Missionedit (talk · contribs · count) - All biographies
  35. Mjs1991 (talk · contribs · count) Using Persondata-o-matic
  36. Middayexpress (talk · contribs · count) - Anything
  37. 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.)
  38. Msmarmalade (talk · contribs · count) - Focused on the process of wrapping-up Persondata, you can see my plan here
  39. Omnipaedista (talk · contribs · count)
  40. OrenBochman (talk · contribs · count) Whatever I edit
  41. Osarius (talk · contribs · count) - Anything I stuble upon while new page patrolling.
  42. Paleorthid (talk · contribs · count) Scientists
  43. paul2520 (talk · contribs · count) - Persondata_templates_without_short_description_parameter
  44. Paulmcdonald (talk · contribs · count) - I'll work on reaching in to college football articles for coaches and players.
  45. Peroxwhy2gen (talk · contribs · count) - Anything I come across...
  46. Pinkadelica (talk · contribs · count) All bios I work on or come across
  47. Pjoef (talk · contribs · count) (Anything...)
  48. Rajah (talk · contribs · count)
  49. Rjwilmsi (talk · contribs · count) – Coding logic for AutoWikiBrowser to automatically insert persondata.
  50. Robomod (talk · contribs · count) Actors, fashion models, photographers, designers etc
  51. robwingfield (talk · contribs · count) Footballers.
  52. Royalmate1 (talk · contribs · count) Particularly these massive backlogs, and any I create or stumble upon
  53. SBaker43 (talk · contribs · count) (Fixing missing or incomplete articles as I encounter them.)
  54. Scapler (talk · contribs · count) - Any biographical entry I come across without it! Cheers! Scapler (talk) 03:41, 28 January 2009 (UTC)
  55. Scott5114 (talk · contribs · count)
  56. SGGH (talk · contribs · count) - anything I find
  57. Shinryuu (talk · contribs · count) - Scientists & various Germans; anything I find
  58. Smtchahal (talk · contribs · count) - I'm interested in adding names to nameless persondata articles. I'd also add Persondata to whichever biographical articles I encounter; whenever I do.
  59. TheJJJunk (talk · contribs · count)
  60. Thorwald (talk · contribs · count) - Anything.
  61. Titodutta (talk · contribs · count)
  62. Tomaxer (talk · contribs · count) - Mostly composers.
  63. ukexpat (talk · contribs · count) Anything.
  64. Unionhawk (talk · contribs · count) - Whatever I find.
  65. Warrickball (talk · contribs · count) Whatever I encounter.
  66. wnicholas70 (talk · contribs · count) I'm BASQUE.
  67. Xenxax (talk · contribs · count) Whatever I find.
  68. Yutsi (talk · contribs · count) Anything.
  69. Zarex (talk · contribs · count) Whenever I find.
  70. Пробегающий (talk · contribs · count) Link from all bases and projects all persondata, authority control information and put on WikiData, search conflicts, solver.
  71. Tim Welch (talk · contribs · count) - New York State politicians (primarily historical).
  72. 70.186.172.75 (talk · contribs · count) All bios.
  73. Alexander Gieg (talk · contribs · count) Any biographical article I come across that interests me enough. Most are in the Philosophy and Religion areas.
  74. Arina.Moroz (talk · contribs · count) - Russians
  75. BookishAcolyte (talk · contribs · count) Japanese folks, especially actors, musicians, artists...
  76. JamAKiska (talk · contribs · count) - Science and History...
  77. jeffozvold (talk · contribs · count) Anything I find.
  78. Jkj115 (talk · contribs · count) Random, I'll add whoever I find
  79. Kakofonous (talk · contribs · count) Anything at all.
  80. LelandRB (talk · contribs · count) Anythang
  81. MaBu (talk · contribs · count) - Whatever I find, or whatever is bad for parsing.
  82. manik.mahajan2 (talk · contribs · count) Help to Standardize PLACE OF BIRTH field .
  83. Mdebets (talk · contribs · count) Musicians and historical figures I come across
  84. Merrieman (talk · contribs · count) Anything...
  85. Mouchoir le Souris (talk · contribs · count) Any and all I come upon
  86. Nightseeder (talk · contribs · count) Anything
  87. NoVomit (talk · contribs · count)
  88. PS. (talk · contribs · count)
  89. Ryft (talk · contribs · count) - Science, philosophy, history, Sirius XM Radio.
  90. Saranghae honey (talk · contribs · count) whatever I find?
  91. Scarce (talk · contribs · count) - Entertainers, mainly actors
  92. Spider1224 (talk · contribs · count) Whatever strikes my fancy on a particular day.
  93. Tadramgo (talk · contribs · count) Whatever I find
  94. Teleomatic (talk · contribs · count) Writers
  95. TestTubeFiasco (talk · contribs · count) - Artists, Writers, whatever I find.
  96. Trevy510 (talk · contribs · count) Whatever I find!
  97. Zhukora (talk · contribs · count) Historical figures, people I come across.