User talk:Anders Hellström
Welcome!
Dear Anders,
thank you for applying for the user account. I have seen your Wikipedia page (being, with Martin Gollasch here on FactGrid part of the older Wikipedia community). You will know how to handle such an account, that is why I am particularly delighted to have you here.
All our accounts are clear name accounts and we love people to openly state who they are. Most of the data which are generated on FactGrid are research data, often not yet fully consolidated. We invite primarily research teams and people who are writing their dissertations. That is why we are trying to create an environment of participants who will all risk their names with what they are doing here. It is the basis of trust they are used to as researchers.
I assume you are interested in genealogy which is cool with us. We would love to be able to visualise genealogical information (no idea whether you have any particular skills in this field). (Which reminds me of the little ting I wanted to do: We have all the genealogical data of Adam Weishaupt's family in the machine thanks to the chief archivist of Ingolstadt, and wanted to present them in a tree on our blog - to counter allegations of a National Geographic article that the family were of Jewish converts - part of the usual Jewish-world-conspiracy crap, that has found here an unlikely platform).
To keep things short: we are curious what ideas you will develop on FactGrid. (Swedish is by the way, a language FactGrid should learn, in case you plan to use the Swedish language interface.) Best wishes, --Olaf Simons (talk) 17:06, 5 December 2019 (CET)
working in a medium without notability criteria
Hi Anders. Yes, do feel free to add people that would not pass the Wikipedia criteria of notability test. Yet a few things of formalities. Give us descriptions with a date in the beginning like
*1915-10-05, Stockholm, +1980-08-09, Göteborg, merchant.
we are running into a situation where we will feed 5 Million people (from the German national library) into the machine with loads of people (like 28 different Thomas Manns).
This Search is presently my standard to see whom we have in the machine on a last name:
We have made a massive input form a town to see what will happen and a town is full of similar names.
A useful thing might be the P290 and P291 statements, that allow you to give stretches of time (useful if you have just one date - but a date that allows you to infer that the man was in his 30s at that time.
When you create names and people manually one after the other you might use our batchs (in the menue) - this is useful with names as the system will warn you of items that already exist. This is some stuff that comes to my mind this second. best --Olaf Simons (talk) 19:02, 8 December 2019 (CET)
- The standard of the batches also has its beauty as it automatically creates items in our three languages which are immediately identifiable as what the are as in the case of Roes where we have a municipality and a family name of that name. When you type the letters into the search form your immediately see the categorical differences. We did not quite realise how necessary the descriptions are until we ran into this mess of things of the same name. --Olaf Simons (talk) 12:49, 9 December 2019 (CET)