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Harvest names from Wikipedia #10

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nickom opened this issue Nov 26, 2014 · 1 comment

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nickom commented Nov 26, 2014

There are a number of fields in the Wikipedia template for US legislation that hopefully make harvesting this material possible (if anyone knows how to pull bulk data from Wikipedia):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Infobox_U.S._legislation

Fields that looked helpful:
nickname
Other short titles
acronym

Fields to match bill data with Wikipedia:
introducedin
introducedbill
introducedby
introduceddate

A lot of bills never get nicknames, but here are some recent examples:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agricultural_Act_of_2014
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Border_Security,_Economic_Opportunity,_and_Immigration_Modernization_Act_of_2013
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consolidated_Appropriations_Act,_2014

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plantfansam commented Dec 1, 2014

This is a good idea! Definitely will look into this!

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