User:Dsp13
I want to thank all the people whom I've met or collaborated with on wikipedia: special mention to Charles Matthews, Magnus Manske and the editors at the Women's History wikiproject. After seven years, offline commitments mean that I can no longer justify the amount of time I'd got into the habit of spending around here. I continue to wish the project well. It's an amazing collective achievement, and I applaud the painstaking labours of all those half-sung heroes and heroines who continue to build it.
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Earlier material on this page has been archived (April 2007) to User:Dsp13/Archive1
I'm an ex-historian & writer based in the UK, working as a knowledge engineer for Evi, a Cambridge-based company building internet & mobile question-answering technology. I started editing Wikipedia 7 July 2006. Pages I've started include Cedar Paul, Robert Leslie Ellis, John Grote, George Ballard and List of nineteenth-century periodicals. Many of my edits have involved adding humdrum categories - birth and death categories to biographical articles, or year of establishment to publications, schools, companies etc. I've written scripts to match wikipedia pages to library name authority records, the National Register of Archives and the ODNB. Using :Template:Venn, I've added about 4,000 references, for Cambridge alumni, to [http://venn.lib.cam.ac.uk/Documents/acad/intro.html ACAD], a recent online edition of Venn's Alumni Cantabrigienses.
Toolbox
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- [http://toolserver.org/~magnus/ Tools] by Magnus Manske
- [https://petscan.wmflabs.org/ PetScan]
- [http://toolserver.org/~magnus/joanjoc/sugart.php?uselang=en Suggest articles from interwikis] initially by Joanjoc
- [http://toolserver.org/~magnus/misstake.php Misstake], finding the most wanted redlinks on a page
- adding authority control to [https://toolserver.org/~magnus/ts2/authority_control/ German wikipedia], [https://toolserver.org/~magnus/ts2/authority_control/?wiki=en.wikipedia English wikipedia], [https://toolserver.org/~magnus/ts2/authority_control/?wiki=fr.wikipedia French wikipedia] or [https://toolserver.org/~magnus/ts2/authority_control/?wiki=en.wikisource English wikisource].
- [http://reftag.appspot.com/ Reference tool] from user:Apoc2400
- [http://tools.wikimedia.de/~daniel/WikiSense/CategoryIntersect.php CatScan] by Duesentrieb
- [http://tools.wikimedia.de/~daniel/WikiSense/CategoryIntersect.php?wikilang=en&wikifam=.wikipedia.org&basecat=Year+of+birth+unknown&basedeep=3&mode=cs&tagcat=Living+people&tagdeep=3&go=Scan&userlang=en Intersection of Living people and Year of birth unknown] (should be almost empty)
- [http://toolserver.org/~dschwen/intersection Link & category intersection tool] by Dschwen
- useful queries
- [http://tools.wikimedia.de/~dapete/catgraph/ Catgraph], a category graph generator by Dapete
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- Citation tools
- [http://toolserver.org/~nikola/grep.php Article titles matching regular expression] by Nicola Smolenski (used for this graphic)
- Wikipedia release version selection data: [http://toolserver.org/%7Ecbm/release-data/2008-3-7/HTML/ March 2008], [http://toolserver.org/~cbm/release-data/2008-9-23/HTML/ September 2008]
- [http://stats.grok.se Wikipedia article traffic statistics] by Henrik
- Random pages from different namespaces, e.g. Special:Random/Category
- [http://toolserver.org/~erwin85/randomarticle.php Random article within a category] by erwin85
- Wikipedia:Wikipedia in academic studies
- Special:LinkSearch
- [http://reftag.appspot.com/?book_url=&dateformat=dmy Wikipedia citation tool for Google Books]
- [http://toolserver.org/~jarry/templatecount/index.php?lang=en&name=Template%3AVenn#bottom Template transclusion count]
- [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:PAC2/Gender_diversity#List_of_all_links_with_gender list page's links by gender] by PAC2
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People prominent in ODNB lacking individual articles in Wikipedia
From 14,000 or so matches made (as of June 2008) between wikipedia and ODNB:
Some particular classes of people are relatively less well-represented in Wikipedia than they are in ODNB. One way to see this is to use words in their short description in the publicly accessible [http://www.oup.com/oxforddnb/info/index/ index to the ODNB].
- Words correlated with relative under-represention (<10% in wikipedia): justice, headmistress, ejected, jesuit, quaker, topogragher, baron, friar, engraver, presbyterian, bookseller, clergyman
- Words correlated with relative over-represention (>50% in wikipedia): economist, astronomer, director, explorer, philosopher, broadcaster, physicist, canterbury, zoologist, conductor, cricketer, king, australia
Looking at those in ODNB with gender-specific Christian names (around 90%), women in ODNB are less likely (24%) than are men (27%) to be in wikipedia.
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=Quakers prominent in ODNB without Wikipedia articles=
- John Perrot (Quaker) Perrot, John (d. 1665) , Quaker schismatic [http://www.oxforddnb.com/index/101021987/ ODNB] DNB on wikisource
- John Whiting (Quaker) Whiting, John (1656-1722) , Quaker bibliographer and writer [http://www.oxforddnb.com/index/101029314/ ODNB] DNB on wikisource
- Alexander Jaffray Jaffray, Alexander (1614-1673) , politician and Quaker leader [http://www.oxforddnb.com/index/101014582/ ODNB] DNB on wikisource
- Gilbert Latey Latey, Gilbert (1626-1705) , Quaker activist [http://www.oxforddnb.com/index/101016087/ ODNB], DNB on Wikisource
- John Crook (Quaker) Crook, John (1616/17-1699) , Quaker leader and writer [http://www.oxforddnb.com/index/101006774/ ODNB], DNB on wikisource
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=Booksellers prominent in ODNB without Wikipedia articles=
- William Rayner (printer) Rayner, William (bap. 1699, d. 1761) , printer and bookseller [http://www.oxforddnb.com/index/101064281/ ODNB]
- James Esdall Esdall, James (c.1720-1755) , printer and bookseller [http://www.oxforddnb.com/index/101064276/ ODNB]
- John Wolfe (bookseller) Wolfe, John (b. in or before 1548?, d. 1601) , bookseller and printer [http://www.oxforddnb.com/index/101029834/ ODNB]
- Thomas Osborne (bookseller) Osborne, Thomas (bap. 1704?, d. 1767) , bookseller [http://www.oxforddnb.com/index/101020885/ ODNB]
- John Balfour (bookseller) Balfour, John (1715-1795) , bookseller and printer [http://www.oxforddnb.com/index/101064999/ ODNB]
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People prominent in [[National Register of Archives|NRA]] lacking individual articles in both Wikipedia and ODNB
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- Lady Charlotte Lindsay (d. 1849), Lady in Waiting to Queen Caroline [http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/nra/searches/pidocs.asp?P=P37834 NRA]
- Alexander Straton (1763-1832), Diplomat [http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/nra/searches/pidocs.asp?P=P27524 NRA]
- Thomas Farmer Dukes (fl. 1834-1847), Antiquary [http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/nra/searches/pidocs.asp?P=P8642 NRA]
- James Dayrolles (d. 1739), Diplomat [http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/nra/searches/pidocs.asp?P=P7704 NRA]
- Frederick George Gurney (1878-1947), Antiquary [http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/nra/searches/pidocs.asp?P=P34826 NRA]
- George Aust (d. 1829) Civil Servant [http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/nra/searches/pidocs.asp?P=P1017 NRA]
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- Henry Watkins (b. 1670) Secretary to Marlborough and Queen Anne [http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/nra/searches/pidocs.asp?P=P29872 NRA]
- Alfred William Morant (1828-1881) Engineer Surveyor and Antiquary [http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/nra/searches/pidocs.asp?P=P20294 NRA]
- George Cressener (d. 1781) Diplomat [http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/nra/searches/pidocs.asp?P=P6946 NRA]
- Edward W. Coleridge (1800-1883) Master at Eton [http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/nra/searches/pidocs.asp?P=P6145 NRA]
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Subpages
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- [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3APrefixIndex&prefix=dsp13&namespace=2 All subpages]
- User:Dsp13/Annual Register 1815
- User:Dsp13/List of deaths reported in Who's Who 1914
- User:Dsp13/Periodicals
- User:Dsp13/Redlinks
- User:Dsp13/Redlinks/Women
- User:Dsp13/Redlinks/Artists
- User:Dsp13/DLB
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- User:Dsp13/Sandbox
- User:Dsp13/drafts/Ballard
- User:Dsp13/drafts/French philosophers
- User:Dsp13/Biographical dictionary samples
- User:Dsp13/Biographical Dictionary of the History of Technology
- User:Dsp13/DNB journalists
- User:Dsp13/Wanted articles about Africa
- User:Dsp13/International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis
- User:Dsp13/Redlinks/Middle East and North Africa
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