[04:33:54] <[1997kB]> BRPever: ^ do you know about this? [04:34:30] nope I think I missed it [04:35:12] I can't see anything before I joined [04:35:40] <[1997kB]> [09:31] (YairRand) [04:34] was there some kind of Wikidata editing event in Nepal last December? [04:35:47] <[1997kB]> [09:31] (YairRand) [04:35] I've noticed a whole lot of items created for nepali politicians with completely implausible birth dates, all created by many different users within the same hour on Dec 8 2018 [04:35:53] <[1997kB]> [09:31] (YairRand) [04:36] not sure what to make of it [04:35:59] <[1997kB]> [09:31] (YairRand) [04:37] all items without refs or sitelinks, with statements like "date of birth: 5 January 2023" [04:36:05] <[1997kB]> [09:31] (YairRand) [04:38] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Adk_Saroj https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Sushant_Manandhar https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Sakschi_Nakarmee https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Md_Samsad_Ali , and probably a bunch more [04:38:36] [1997kB]: I will contract someone who does this kind of event and tell you... [04:39:05] I remember one but am unsure if it was in december [04:39:29] <[1997kB]> well.. leave a message to YairRand on his talk page.. [04:53:11] I assume the dates are from a different calendar, but I can't find anything useful in english to verify them [04:53:55] I did merge a few duplicates at least [04:55:44] <[1997kB]> looks like dates are in hindu calendar [05:03:05] <[1997kB]> which have 2076 now.. [05:07:31] from what I could find, it has a different set of months and the years don't start at the same time as the gregorian one though, so I'm not sure if there's anything we can do with the existing data [05:08:13] ideally we'd find a source for the dates [05:13:38] <[1997kB]> we need to substract 57 years from these.. [05:15:55] but it's not exactly 57 years [05:17:43] [1997kB]: I know how to use that calendar... The months are different so it doesn’t work... 57 subs I mean [05:19:23] <[1997kB]> alright I thought simple maths would do it.. btw I guess that calender starts in April ? [05:20:32] Yep...around that time [05:20:48] Also there was an event in December [05:23:14] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_of_Nepal/Events/Wikiproject_Data-a-thon_at_KIST_fair_2018 [05:23:55] There are date converters that we can use... [05:27:10] <[1997kB]> one date is 19 May 2011, does it have a month named May? or they just forgot to convert 2011 only? [05:29:14] Nope no May [05:30:37] I will take a look this evening... I will also inform the organisers about the problem... [05:30:50] * BRPever is on train... [05:32:17] <[1997kB]> ah.. happy journey.. :P in the meantime I'll learn how to convert it to gregorian [05:32:54] [1997kB]: use data converters... [05:33:04] Let me find one [05:34:45] https://www.ashesh.com.np/nepali-date-converter.php [05:35:33] <[1997kB]> ty [05:35:53] No prob :D [22:44:41] hello [22:44:49] do you know a simple way to query wikidata (sql, browser interface, whatever) for info like "List of artworks by author = ..."?