tmtmtmtm/2016-sleaford-byelection-wikipedia

The code and queries etc here are unlikely to be updated as my process evolves. Later repos will likely have progressively different approaches and more elaborate tooling, as my habit is to try to improve at least one part of the process each time around.

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Step 1: Configure meta.json

All the relevant metadata now lives in meta.json: ideally nothing will need tweaked after this.

Step 1: Scrape the results

jq -r '.wikipedia | "\(.url) \(.section)"' meta.json | xargs bundle exec ruby scraper.rb | tee wikipedia.csv

Step 2: Generate possible missing IDs

xsv search -v -s id 'Q' wikipedia.csv | xsv select name | tail +2 |
  sed -e 's/^/"/' -e 's/$/"@en/' | paste -s - |
  xargs -0 wd sparql find-candidates.js |
  jq -r '.[] | [.name, .item.value, .election.label, .constituency.label, .party.label] | @csv' |
  tee candidates.csv

The ones found look good, but there's no match for:

• Jim Clarke
• Mark Suffield
• Paul Coyne
• Ross Pepper
• Sarah Stock
• Victoria Ayling

Ross Pepper seems to be Ross David Pepper (Q75838735), so I've added an alias.

I can't find any of the others in Wikidata already.

Step 3: Combine Those

xsv join -n --left 2 wikipedia.csv 1 candidates.csv | xsv select '7,1-5' | sed $'1i\\\nfoundid' | tee combo.csv

Step 4: Generate QuickStatements commands

bundle exec ruby generate-qs.rb meta.json | tee commands.qs

Then sent to QuickStatements as https://editgroups.toolforge.org/b/QSv2T/1597077061951/

Step 5: Generate reciprocal 'candidacy' statements

SELECT ?person ?personLabel ?election ?electionLabel
WHERE {
  ?election wdt:P31 wd:Q7864918 ; wdt:P726 ?person.
  MINUS { ?person wdt:P3602 ?election }
  SERVICE wikibase:label { bd:serviceParam wikibase:language "[AUTO_LANGUAGE],en". }
}

wd sparql mirror-candidacy-to-person.rq |
  jq -r '.[] | "\(.person.value)\tP3602\t\(.election.value)\tS3452\t\(.election.value)"' |
  tee >(pbcopy)

-> QuickStatements as https://tools.wmflabs.org/editgroups/b/QSv2T/1597083742928