User:DutchTreat/Projects/list-maintenance
List Sync Challenge
[edit]Based on the problem posed at the Wikimedia NYC meeting 2022-11-30 Old revision of Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/November_2022 a challenge was proposed.-
- Problem
- Correct listing of colleges at Oberlin Group of Libraries using the fewest keystrokes
- Solution
- 1. Create two lists into two files
- List A. copy the wikitext from the article; and
- List B. copy links from members;
- Paste the values into a text editor where the links will not be copied.
- 2. For List A. use text editor to make global substitution. Remove extra markup, for example in VIM use
:1,$s/^...\([a-zA-Z \.]*\).*$/\1/
- 3. sort each list
- 4. diff two sorted lists
- Results
| List B - Source Only | List A - WP Only |
|---|---|
| Lewis & Clark College | Harvey Mudd College |
| University of Puget Sound | Pitzer College |
| Xavier University of Louisiana | Pomona College |
| . | Scripps College |
Note, there were additional differences due to naming. For example, WP article has two entries for "Morehouse College" and "Spelman College" and the source list has one combined entry "Morehouse/Spelman Colleges (AUC)"
Discussion
[edit]@CmdrDan: Comments? - DutchTreat (talk) 11:12, 1 December 2022 (UTC)