Saturday 10 February 2024

Adding category using PAWD

First 

let us collect the wikipedia articles that has no category of people who died in 2023 using sparql

Sample : Link

Second:

Extract the title using MS Excel


Third

Paste the article title in PAWS as given below

PAWS

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import pywikibot


def add_category_to_article(page_title, category):

    site = pywikibot.Site('ml', 'wikipedia')  # Malayalam Wikipedia

    page = pywikibot.Page(site, page_title)


    # Check if the page exists

    if not page.exists():

        print(f"Page '{page_title}' does not exist.")

        return


    # Check if the page already has the category

    if category in page.categories():

        print(f"Page '{page_title}' already has the category '{category}'.")

        return


    # Add the category to the page

    page.text += f"\n[[വർഗ്ഗം:{category}]]"

    page.save(f"കാറ്റഗറി ചേർക്കുന്നു '{category}' ")


def main():

    articles = [

"എസ്ഥേർ_ഈല്ലം",

"ദരൂഷ്_മെഹ്‌റൂജി"



    ]


    category = "2023-ൽ മരിച്ചവർ"


    for article in articles:

        add_category_to_article(article, category)


if __name__ == "__main__":

    main()



Fourth

Run the python file.



NB: Note, there should not be comma after the last title in python and recheck the category name properly.

It is based on wikidata statement: Date of death.