WikimediaKBURLReplacement

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Wikimedia KB URL replacement

Code, scripts and stories about replacing outdated or non-persistent URLs of KB services in Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata

Read the article Making references to Dutch newspapers in Wikipedia more sustainable to understand why and how the KB replaces outdates URLs in Wikipedia.

• Folder ScriptsMerlijnVanDeen
  • The technique for replacing URLs is detailed in this blogpost by Merlijn van Deen. See the 4 screenshot below.
  • The Python scripts and PAWS commands for this method are available from this folder

• Folder GvN : Pywikibot commands for PAWS to replace links to Geheugen van Nederland (GvN) in Wikipedia based on this example

• Folder ScriptsHayKranen_KrantenKB : two Pyton scripts to replace URLs of newspapers in Delpher. Not yet worked with.

A Jypyter notebooks (PAWS) implementation of these scripts is available from https://paws-public.wmflabs.org/paws-public/User:OlafJanssenBot/WikipediaURLReplacement/