User talk:GreyHead
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Hi GreyHead,
Help:Import NBD from enwikisource is short summary of the steps. The spreadsheet is mainly needed for step 8.
--- Jura 16:20, 1 May 2016 (UTC)
- I did a first 800. If you want to give it a try, don't hesitate. Otherwise I will do the remaining ones later.
--- Jura 09:21, 3 May 2016 (UTC)
- Thank you, I'm getting a bad case of beginners bemusement here. How did you do the import? Ah, I see that the Category A Naval Biographical Dictionary now gets them all. Now I've changed something and get a failed DB query. I'll try again later. GreyHead (talk) 12:43, 3 May 2016 (UTC)
- step 4 just creates them when hitting "process commands" (make sure to do step 3 first).
--- Jura 12:49, 3 May 2016 (UTC)
- step 4 just creates them when hitting "process commands" (make sure to do step 3 first).
- Thanks for creating all those items. I went ahead and added labels/descriptions. I'm currently trying to find a way to simplify checks for items missing a link to Wikipedia.
--- Jura 13:23, 8 May 2016 (UTC)- @Jura1:Is there a simple way to convert/copy these biographical entries into people entries, I did one by hand following your example - but it's not practical to repeat that 4,900 times :-( I can create a list of the DNB entries that I have linked to Wikipedia if that would help? GreyHead (talk) 07:51, 11 May 2016 (UTC)
- I did step 8 (HarvestTemplates) with the ones that already had the WP article in WikiSource, the result is Help:Import NBD from enwikisource/lists/people. Step 9 adds the item to the person items. Do you have any additional mappings? I'm trying to find a way to use the Mix'N'Match tool mentioned there. BTW, do you have any dates birth (or death) already extracted from the text?
--- Jura 09:05, 11 May 2016 (UTC)- @Jura1:No, sorry I don't have extracted dates - or anything else of much use here. My spreadsheet was set up to create templates in WikiSource so I only have names and NBD page numbers. GreyHead (talk) 09:12, 15 May 2016 (UTC)
- I did step 8 (HarvestTemplates) with the ones that already had the WP article in WikiSource, the result is Help:Import NBD from enwikisource/lists/people. Step 9 adds the item to the person items. Do you have any additional mappings? I'm trying to find a way to use the Mix'N'Match tool mentioned there. BTW, do you have any dates birth (or death) already extracted from the text?
- @Jura1:Is there a simple way to convert/copy these biographical entries into people entries, I did one by hand following your example - but it's not practical to repeat that 4,900 times :-( I can create a list of the DNB entries that I have linked to Wikipedia if that would help? GreyHead (talk) 07:51, 11 May 2016 (UTC)
- Thank you, I'm getting a bad case of beginners bemusement here. How did you do the import? Ah, I see that the Category A Naval Biographical Dictionary now gets them all. Now I've changed something and get a failed DB query. I'll try again later. GreyHead (talk) 12:43, 3 May 2016 (UTC)