Wiki people

Trends on the Wikipedia for people across time, space and gender. Built from a Wikidata SPARQL import of every human (Q5) with an English Wikipedia article, born 1500–2010.

Every person on the English Wikipedia, sliced by where and when they were born, their gender, and what they did. The underlying database has ~1.9 million people and is built straight from Wikidata. Birth years are capped at 1500–2010 — earlier data is patchy, later cohorts are mostly too young to be Wikipedia-notable yet.

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build_db.py
Wikidata → SQLite importer
build_labels.py
Resolve QIDs to English labels

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