mzemel
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5 years ago Hi, thanks for opening this issue!
I had not heard of Wikidata but it looks pretty awesome
I'd originally thought to make a crawler for each page and pull facts from the Wikipedia page for each monarch, but felt like I'd end up with questionable biographies if I just grabbed, say, the first paragraph. Ultimately, I decided to go through each monarch and create my own dataset - though it ended up taking a disproportionate amount of time :(
I can't promise that I'll add to Wikidata, as I'd like to start a new project and consider this one "released into the wild", but if anyone reading this would like to amend any of my data I can grant them edit access to the Google sheet and export it back into the project.
Sorry for the answer-that's-not-really-an-answer :D
Congrats on this very nice project, as well as the writeup on your website, I hope this will give inspiration to social scientists!
Do you know Histropedia? It's a similar idea but I like your visualization better because it's focused on one thing (monarchs) to do it well and at the same time you put a lot of complementary infos (like the mini map).
Have you considered using Wikidata instead of maintaining your own spreadsheets? I guess also a lot would probably be missing in Wikidata (not yet added from Wikipedia) that you could add and which would also benefit a lot of other researchers and projects.