namespace_match: namespace name/number matching

In wikimedia-research/WMUtils: Utilities for Wikimedia staffers

Description

namespace_match allows you to match namespace names to the appropriate namespace ID numbers, or vice versa, in any language.

Usage

namespace_match(x, code = "enwiki", language = NULL, project_type = NULL,
  use_API = FALSE)

Arguments

x	a vector of namespace names or numbers
code	which project's names to use as the basis for the conversion. Set to "enwiki" by default.
language	see 'details' - set to NULL by default
project_type	see 'details' - set to NULL by default
use_API	whether to rebuild the data fresh from the API, or use the version that comes with WMUtils. note that API rebuilding will update the version stored with WMUtils, but won't work at all on stat1002. Because there's no internet on stat1002.

Details

namespace_match takes a vector of namespace ID numbers or namespace names, and matches them to...well, the one you didn't provide. To do this it relies on a .RData file of the globally used namespace IDs and local names.

To match your names/IDs with the project you want them localised to, you can provide either code, which matches the format used in the wiki_info table and the NOC lists, or both language and project_type, where language is the English-language name for the project language, and project_type is "wiki", "wikisource", or so on, following the format used in the wiki_info table.

Value

a vector containing the IDs or names, whichever you wanted.

See Also

namespace_match_generator, the function that (re)generates the dataset. It can be directly called.

wikimedia-research/WMUtils documentation built on May 4, 2019, 5:23 a.m.