On hold. Wikipedia doesn't consider candidates for election to be automatically notable, and human-generated pages for candidates have been reverted; bot-created pages have low chance of survival. We could set up our own wiki, but the information is already available at Ballotopedia, Politics1, ActBlue, etc. This could be a data source for other projects; if a use case arises, we should repurpose this code to do whatever is needed.
It reads data sources with information about candidates for election, saves them as CSV and optionally creates mediawiki (e.g., Wikipedia) stub pages for them using the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Infobox_officeholder infobox template.
It can currently read yaml, the xml data dump from http://www.fec.gov/data/CandidateSummary.do and some wikipedia pages, e.g., https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives_elections,_2016
If you are running on a mac, make sure you have xcode command-line tools installed. You can install them using the command 'xcode-select --install'
A few python modules:
pip install pyyaml
pip install requests
pip install lxml
pip install beautifulsoup4
pip install us
and for testing, you need python-pytest. (http://doc.pytest.org)
Run py.test in the same directory as the tests to run them.
Nope, it's set up to point at a local wiki, http://cso.noidea.dog/w/. Create an account there, and add a file, credentials.py that looks like USERNAME=youruser PASS=yourpass
http://cso.noidea.dog/w/index.php/User:Candidatebot/sandbox/Test_Page
We want to autogenerate as much information as possible, but humans will have to fill in the TODOs.