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. -

Earlier material on this page has been archived (April 2007) to User:Dsp13/Archive1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 ACAD, a recent online edition of Venn's Alumni Cantabrigienses.

Toolbox

 * Tools by Magnus Manske
 * PetScan
 * Suggest articles from interwikis initially by Joanjoc
 * Misstake, finding the most wanted redlinks on a page
 * adding authority control to German wikipedia, English wikipedia, French wikipedia or English wikisource.
 * Reference tool from user:Apoc2400
 * CatScan by Duesentrieb
 * Intersection of Living people and Year of birth unknown (should be almost empty)
 * Link & category intersection tool by Dschwen
 * useful queries
 * Catgraph, a category graph generator by Dapete


 * Citation tools
 * Article titles matching regular expression by Nicola Smolenski (used for this graphic)
 * Wikipedia release version selection data: March 2008, September 2008
 * Wikipedia article traffic statistics by Henrik
 * Random pages from different namespaces, e.g. Special:Random/Category
 * Random article within a category by erwin85
 * Wikipedia in academic studies
 * Special:LinkSearch
 * Wikipedia citation tool for Google Books
 * Template transclusion count
 * list page's links by gender by PAC2

People prominent in ODNB lacking individual articles in Wikipedia

 * ''Moved to WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/DNB, people prominent in ODNB

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 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.

Quakers prominent in ODNB without Wikipedia articles

 * John Perrot (Quaker) Perrot, John ( d. 1665), Quaker schismatic ODNB DNB on wikisource
 * John Whiting (Quaker) Whiting, John (1656-1722), Quaker bibliographer and writer ODNB DNB on wikisource
 * Alexander Jaffray Jaffray, Alexander (1614-1673), politician and Quaker leader ODNB DNB on wikisource
 * Gilbert Latey Latey, Gilbert (1626-1705), Quaker activist ODNB, DNB on Wikisource
 * John Crook (Quaker) Crook, John (1616/17-1699), Quaker leader and writer ODNB, DNB on wikisource

Booksellers prominent in ODNB without Wikipedia articles

 * William Rayner (printer) Rayner, William ( bap. 1699, d. 1761), printer and bookseller ODNB
 * James Esdall Esdall, James ( c. 1720-1755), printer and bookseller ODNB
 * John Wolfe (bookseller) Wolfe, John ( b. in or before 1548?, d. 1601), bookseller and printer ODNB
 * Thomas Osborne (bookseller) Osborne, Thomas ( bap. 1704?, d. 1767), bookseller ODNB
 * John Balfour (bookseller) Balfour, John (1715-1795), bookseller and printer ODNB

People prominent in NRA lacking individual articles in both Wikipedia and ODNB

 * Lady Charlotte Lindsay (d. 1849), Lady in Waiting to Queen Caroline NRA
 * Alexander Straton (1763-1832), Diplomat NRA
 * Thomas Farmer Dukes (fl. 1834-1847), Antiquary NRA
 * James Dayrolles (d. 1739), Diplomat NRA
 * Frederick George Gurney (1878-1947), Antiquary NRA
 * George Aust (d. 1829) Civil Servant NRA


 * Henry Watkins (b. 1670) Secretary to Marlborough and Queen Anne NRA
 * Alfred William Morant (1828-1881) Engineer Surveyor and Antiquary NRA
 * George Cressener (d. 1781) Diplomat NRA
 * Edward W. Coleridge (1800-1883) Master at Eton NRA

Subpages

 * 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


 * 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