User:DutchTreat/Projects/list-maintenance

List Sync Challenge

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

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

@CmdrDan: Comments? - DutchTreat (talk) 11:12, 1 December 2022 (UTC)