Hi Andy, How about something like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Mike_Peel/Guardian_obits <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Mike_Peel/Guardian_obits>
There seem to be some redlinks showing up there! Other sources might be a bit more difficult to incorporate. E.g., the Independent's obit RSS feed is empty, and the Telegraph don't seem to have one... Thanks, Mike > On 21 Feb 2017, at 12:23, Andy Mabbett <a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk> wrote: > > At the WMUK education summit yesterday somebody - I regret that I don't > recall who - mentioned a tool that scrapes a US newspaper for obituaries, and > matches them to Wikipedia articles (or highlights missing Wikipedia articles). > > It was suggested that we might have a UK equivalent. > > On checking, I see that the Guardian have an RSS feed for their obituaries: > > https://www.theguardian.com/tone/obituaries/rss > <https://www.theguardian.com/tone/obituaries/rss> > > Is anyone interested in working on such a tool (or adapting the US one)? > > -- > Andy Mabbett > @pigsonthewing > http://pigsonthewing.org.uk > <http://pigsonthewing.org.uk/>_______________________________________________ > Wikimedia UK mailing list > wikimediau...@wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l > WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk
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