Wikipedia:Persondata-o-matic
Persondata-o-matic is a tool by User:Dcoetzee for Microsoft Windows and Mono under Linux for rapid interactive entry of persondata information in biographical entries. It was created in December 2011 to address the enormous backlogs in this area. It is written in C# using DotNetWikiBot (included in download) and requires the .NET Framework 2.0 or later (included on any Windows Vista or later PC).
The tool lets the user choose a backlog to work on (Category:Persondata templates without name parameter or Category:Persondata templates without short description parameter), loads a list of the first 10000 articles, and presents articles in a random order. Form fields can be used to add, remove, or update any persondata information, and the template is updated accordingly with an informative edit summary. Articles are loaded and saved in the background, so that the user can move instantly from one article to the next by merely pressing ENTER to press the "Save and next" button. Other options are to Skip the current page, or to Remove the persondata template (if it is not a biographical article).
The name field may be speculatively pre-filled based on category sort keys and/or the title of the article. The user should verify this name is correct and in compliance with Wikipedia:Persondata#Names_and_titles before saving.
Security warning: log-in credentials are saved in a plain text file between sessions.
License
All rights to Person-o-matic source code, binaries, and other materials are released under the Creative Commons Zero Waiver, except for DotNetWikiBot, which is released under the MIT (X11) license.
Download
2011-12-15
- Windows binary (exe) (no installation required)
- Source code (zip)
Reviews
- Excellent program, no unnecessary features, does everything it claims to do. Fast shipping, excellent seller. --CableModem^^ (talk) 08:11, 16 December 2011 (UTC)