Overview
- This bot is used for NRHP data mining from the NPS databases for article stubbing and cleaning.
- It is written in C#, the code is open sourced.
- Its queries and data reads are automated, article creation will be semi automated after review of potential existing articles or matches. I intend to go a state at a time, starting with Ohio.
- The bot will be running until hopefully all of the notable articles are stubbed, and will run after that on a much more diminished scale as the NRHP database listings are changed, added or removed.
Links
- Logs of bot runs
- Contribs
- For Review
Current Bot Function
There are two parts to the stubbing process, a semi automated / manual review of existing potential matches for the article.
Scan for Potential Existing Articles
The bot scans Wikipedia for articles containing:
- The NRHP infobox and a matching refnum
- The same title (original and clean) or some geographic variation:
- Name
- Name (City)
- Name (State)
- Name, City
- Name, City, State
Some other searches I originally had but ended up getting too many matches to be usable included:
- Significant Person Names
- Architect
- Other Names from the NRHP database
Automated Stubbing
- Create the main page
- Create a page at "Name (City, State)" or if a vicinity address, "Name (State)"
- Add WikiProject|class=stub and Reqphotoin templates to talk page
- Add to User:Paultyng's watch list
- Update the local database with the new article ID
- Create a redirect
- If a page at "Name" does not exist, create a redirect
- Add Wikiproject|class=redirect to redirect page talk
- Log the result of this row