https://github.com/nichtich/african-cabinets

https://github.com/nichtich/african-cabinets

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• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/nichtich/african-cabinets
• Owner: nichtich
• License: mit
• Created: 2020-07-09T19:41:48.000Z (over 4 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2022-12-06T20:34:11.000Z (about 2 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-10-27T17:26:11.980Z (2 months ago)
• Language: JavaScript
• Homepage: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Africa/Cabinets
• Size: 161 KB
• Stars: 1
• Watchers: 3
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 4
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE.md

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# African Cabinets

This git repository contains scripts and tools for [Wikidata project African Cabinets](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Africa/Cabinets).

## Requirements

* Node

* jq

* make

## Installation

Install files from this repository and its dependencies:

~~~

git clone https://github.com/nichtich/african-cabinets.git

cd african-cabinets

npm install

~~~

## Usage

The repository contains two independent applications:

* command line scripts for data processing

* a web application to inspect Wikidata

### Data processing

Manually download the following source files from  to directory `data`:

* `cabinetchanges.xls`

* `portfolio.xls`

Run `make` to convert these Excel files to JSON and to download the current list of states and positions from Wikidata:

    make

To update states and positions from Wikidata call `make -B wikidata`.

Some statistics can be calculated for data analysis

    make stats

To convert all ministers from a country to Wikidata items, call `bin/ministers` with the country name:

    ./bin/ministers Angola

The current version only emits ministers with matching generic position item on Wikidata. Positions not found are emitted to STDERR.

Next step to upload/update items in Wikidata:

* Put credentials in `config.json` (not to be commited!)

* Pass input of ministers script to `bin/import`. Newly created items will be logged in `items.created.ndjson`

### Web application

The web application is made available at . During development run a hot-reloading server:

    npm run web

Some important lists:

* `generic-positions`: needs to be cleaned up on Wikidata to only contain positions not specific to one country

* ...