Topic on User talk:Magnus Manske

Hi, Deutsche Biographie now has a property (Deutsche Biographie ID (P7902)) but the scraper only adds the GND number while the formatter requires the letters before it too. Could you change the catalog to match the formatter? Also, does it only scrape the entries which have a GND number? There are some entries which only work through a different ID like sfz40917. Thanks!

I have changed the MnM IDs to use the "pnd" prefix.

Scraping is not done regularly; the one-time import I did uses BEACON files (, , ) which only have GND numbers. I'll try to add a scraper.

Update: It appears that (at least some) pages with "sfz" prefix also have a GND (e.g. https://www.deutsche-biographie.de/sfz168.html), which then may already have a "pnd" entry (e.g. https://tools.wmflabs.org/mix-n-match/#/entry/57111871). MnM is not really designed to use two external IDs for the same entry.

The "Zitierweise" (how to quote the page) on both PND and SFZ pages (https://www.deutsche-biographie.de/pnd137039034.html and https://www.deutsche-biographie.de/sfz61716.html) says to use PND. So I guess I'll use SPARQL to find the SZF ones on Wikidata, and replace them with PND.

Wrote a note on Property talk:P7902#SFZ => PND

Thank you! The PND entries don't always work, for example https://www.deutsche-biographie.de/sfz40917.html vs. https://www.deutsche-biographie.de/pnd125177828.html But this might be temporary, I don't know.

Thanks, I mailed them.

Reinheitsgebot is also adding bad matches of Deutsche Biographie ID after QS by User talk:Thierry Caro

Oh no :-( I guess we'll have to wade through some ID conflict reports later