NrhpBot

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

1. Create the main page
   1. Create a page at "Name (City, State)" or if a vicinity address, "Name (State)"
   2. Add WikiProject|class=stub and Reqphotoin templates to talk page
   3. Add to User:Paultyng's watch list
   4. Update the local database with the new article ID
2. Create a redirect
   1. If a page at "Name" does not exist, create a redirect
   2. Add Wikiproject|class=redirect to redirect page talk
3. Log the result of this row

Complete

Ohio

• Butler County
• Hamilton County