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Tools to query a local copy of the ISFDB database
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Make use of Wikipedia given name categories #10

Open JohnSmithDev opened 5 years ago

JohnSmithDev commented 5 years ago

e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Unisex_given_names and/or the pages linked from it

Assuming this data isn't available in a nicer format (wikidata?) implementation might be:

  1. Download these Wiki pages similar to how we already do for authors, but with pagination support
  2. Extract the lists
  3. Persist them as JSON?
  4. Use like the human-names JSON - maybe merge them?