nichtich/african-cabinets

# African Cabinets This git repository contains scripts and tools for Wikidata project African Cabinets. ## Requirements * Node * jq * make ## Installation Install files from this repository and its dependencies: ~~~ git clone github.com 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 * ...