Off-Topic Forum

Lately, I have taken interest in old Swedish association football players, and just wanted to share what I've been doing to increase the Internet presence of these otherwise mostly forgotten people.

As some of you might have seen, I first registered here in the beginning of February, and quickly added a handful of checklists for Swedish 1930's football (that's soccer for you yankees) cards to the site. I have since started going through the players in these checklists, and connected their TCDB PID to Wikidata, which is Wikipedia's data repository. I have also added id's from other relevant football (okay, soccer!) databases to make data posts that look kinda like this.

What's the point of this? you might ask. I have absolutely no idea, but it's very satisfying for my cataloguing brain, and I can use the data that I collect to make nice little articles on my native Swedish Wikipedia. And possibly it could lead to some traffic to this site too, since my data posts on Wikidata all contain a link here via the PID. I have also made sure to add a Wikipedia link on here for all players who have a page on English Wikipedia.

If you've read all the way here, thank you. And please let me know what you think of my little project (if you feel like it of course)!

I, personally, appreciate anyone who takes an effort to things like this that's behind the scenes, but can enhance another user's experience on any of the sites you've touched. Keep up the good work.

As someone with an archivist day job, I always appreciate those who do the little things to preserve history. Thanks for sharing about your project!

I really like what you are doing and keep up the great work.

I agree with what vrooomed said and your project is awesome 

As a fellow football (soccer) collector, a fellow swede and even a fellow Göteborgare I appreciate what you are doing! Great that you bring some earlier sets from Sweden on to the site as well. 

Ditto Dan!  Keep up the good work!  Thank you!!