Re: [openstates] Progress and ideas

[Mike Dupont]

I have also created a wiki page for this
https://github.com/h4ck3rm1k3/openstates/wiki/Wikipedia-sync-for-state-politicians

I have registered a new wikia to store the information :
http://stategovernmentsintheunitedstates.wikia.com/wiki/Plan

mike

On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 6:00 AM, James Michael Dupont
<jamesmi...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hi there,
> I have been able to install the code and get the scraper running, added some
> more information to the readme.
>
> So one thing that I see that we can do here is update and sync the wikipedia
> information on the state representatives, for example, pictures and other
> information.
>
> Ideas :
> 1. find the wikipedia page for each state rep and link that in
> 2. the we would want to scrape the wiki page and extract any extra
> information (think wikidata)
> 3. we would also want to create infoboxs in case they are missing for the
> reps, and update the wiki.
>
> what do you think?
>
> mike
>
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