Wikipedia:WikiProject Persondata

Welcome to WikiProject Persondata. Some Wikipedians formed this collaboration resource and group dedicated to improving Wikipedia's use of Persondata, a hidden template used to store biographical information as metadata.

In May 2015, it was decided that Wikidata had rendered Persondata superfluous, and its removal from Wikipedia is now complete.

What was Persondata?
See Persondata

What is Wikidata?
Wikidata is a sister project to Wikipedia, which holds data about subjects. Usable information from Persondata has been copied to Wikidata, and Persondata is now deprecated - see the RfC at Village pump (proposals)/Archive 122. Therefore, please do not add new Persondata templates to pages. The consensus is that Persondata is no longer to be used in articles. You are encouraged to get involved with Wikidata.

News

 * 26 May 2015
 * Persondata has been deprecated by this RfC and will be removed from Wikipedia shortly.


 * 23 November 2015
 * The Persondata data set is available for semi-automatic migration to Wikidata on Kaspar's tool page. Users are kindly asked to help with the migration to Wikidata.


 * 31 January 2016
 * The Persondata template is removed from all articles by KasparBot. See RfA. Users are kindly asked to help with the migration to Wikidata on Kaspar's tool page.

Related projects

 * WikiProject Biography
 * WikiProject Microformats