Leonard Colebrook: Creating a Biography in Wikipedia

Today I created a new article in wikipedia about Leonard Colebrook who was an " English medical researcher who introduced the use of Prontosil, the first sulfonamide drug, as a cure for puerperal, or childbed, fever, a condition resulting from infection after childbirth or abortion (Encyclopaedia Britannica)" (Let's be clear, I didn't know who was that guy till today). Here is how I wrote this article.
First of all, I logged into wikipedia using my login/password. In the article about the Prontosil, I clicked on the link "edit this page", added a reference about Colebrook.

... [[Leonard Colebrook]] introduced it as a cure for puerperal fever ...

and saved the page.

Clicking on this new link makes wikipedia open an editor for a new article. The wiki-code below is what I wrote (please not that, a few weeks ago I created to tool called XUL4Wikipedia, I use it as a source of shortcuts to edit such articles).

1 {{Infobox Scientist
2 |name = {{PAGENAME}}
3 |box_width =
4 |image =Replace_this_image_male.svg
5 |image_size =150px
6 |caption = {{PAGENAME}}
7 |birth_date = {{Birth date|1883|3|2}}
8 |birth_place = [[Guildford, Surrey]]
9 |death_date = {{Death date and age|1883|3|2|1967|9|27}}
10 |death_place = [[Farnham Common]], [[Buckinghamshire]]
11 |residence =
12 |citizenship =
13 |nationality = [[England]]
14 |ethnicity =
15 |field = [[medicine]]
16 |work_institutions =
17 |alma_mater = [[St Mary's Hospital, London]]
18 |doctoral_advisor =
19 |doctoral_students =
20 |known_for = [[Prontosil]]
21 |author_abbrev_bot =
22 |author_abbrev_zoo =
23 |influences = [[Almroth Wright]]
24 |influenced = [[Peter Medawar]]
25 |prizes = [[Blair Bell medal]] in [[1955]]
26 |religion =
27 |footnotes =
28 |signature =
29 }}
30 '''{{PAGENAME}}''' [[Fellow_of_the_Royal_Society|FRS]] ( {{Birth
31 date|1883|3|2}} – {{Death date|1967|9|27}}) was an
32 [[England|English]] [[physician]] who introduced the use of [[Prontosil]]
33 in [[1935]] as a cure for [[puerperal fever]].
34
35 ==References==
36 *{{cite journal
37 | quotes = yes
38 |last=Dunn
39 |first=P M
40 |authorlink=
41 |year=[[2008]]
42 |month=May
43 |title=Dr Leonard Colebrook, FRS (1883-1967) and the chemotherapeutic
44 conquest of puerperal infection
45 |journal=Arch. Dis. Child. Fetal Neonatal Ed.
46 |volume=93
47 |issue=3
48 |pages=F246-8
49 | publisher = | location = | issn =
50 | pmid = 18426926
51 |doi = 10.1136/adc.2006.104448
52 | bibcode = | oclc =| id = | url = | language = | format = | accessdate =
53 | laysummary = | laysource = | laydate = | quote =
54 }}
(...)
191 ==See also==
192 * [[Prontosil]]
193
194 {{Persondata
195 |NAME =Colebrook, Leonard
196 |ALTERNATIVE NAMES =
197 |SHORT DESCRIPTION = English physician who introduced the use of
198 [[Prontosil]] in [[1935]] as a cure for [[puerperal fever]]
199 |DATE OF BIRTH = [[23 December]] [[1961]]
200 |PLACE OF BIRTH = [[Guildford, Surrey]]
201 |DATE OF DEATH = {{Death date|1967|9|27}}
202 |PLACE OF DEATH = [[Farnham Common]], [[Buckinghamshire]]
203 }}
204
205
206 {{physician-stub}}
207
208 {{DEFAULTSORT:Colebrook, Leonard}}
209 [[Category:1883 births]]
210 [[Category:1967 deaths]]
211 [[Category:British physisicans]]

• 1-29 (Infobox Scientist)and 194-203 (Persondata) are respectively an infobox and a source of metadata about individuals. I guess those structures can be parsed and interpreted by some other tools such as Freebase or DBpedia
.

• 4: I could not find any picture of Colebrook on http://commons.wikimedia.org. I put this link to a SVG figure as I don't have any image. It is then possible to answer the question: "who is missing a portrait ?"


• 7 and 9: these are templates (~macro) which format the date. The later template calculates and prints the age of the individual at his death


• 36-190: I searched the references about Colebrook on pubmed using the query "Colebrook L[PS]" ([PS] stands for Personal Name as Subject). The nine articles found were saved as XML and transformed to wiki-code using xsltproc and my xsltstylesheet pubmed2wiki


• 206:just a signal to say "this article needs to be improved". It is then possible to answer the question: "what are the medical biographies which need to be improved ?"


• 208: this template is used by wikipedia to sort the results of a query


• 209-211: "Categories provide automatic indexes that are useful as tables of contents. Together with links and templates they structure a project."

That's it
Pierre