[Wikipedia-l] Easton's Bible Dictionary (resend)

Wed Aug 7 16:48:46 UTC 2002

Whatever anyone may think about these particular proposals (they sound
great to me), I think Neil has really shown true wiki spirit here.

I'm impressed.

Neil Harris wrote:

> This is a trimmed-down version of my earlier over-length post.
> 
> I've now added an extra filter, so that entries whose titles  occur in a
> very large list of common words are rejected.
> 
> Thus, the script will now not attempt to transfer the entry for "Wheel"
> or "Silk" or other common words, regardless of whether Wikipedia has an
> entry for that word. This is in addition to the check for not clobbering
> existing articles.
> 
> I have also eliminated any articles containing the words "modern" or
> "current", which seems to catch a lot of stuff that refers to the
> author's contemporary information.
> 
> I have also pushed the length filter up to 500 characters.
> 
> Doing all of these takes the list down to around 640 filtered articles.
> Wiki links to the non-imported topics still remain, inviting Wikipedians
> to write new articles about these topics. These remaning articles are
> almost entirely about obscure figures and places from the Bible.
> 
> I intend to add a header to each imported article, reading something like:
> 
>      ''This is an entry from Easton's Bible Dictionary. The material in it
> is written from the viewpoint of the 19th century, and may be
> out-of-date or biased. Please review and edit this article to bring it
> up to date''
> 
> and a trailer:
> 
>      From [[Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897)]]
> 
> I intend to drip-feed the finished articles in at a rate of one every 20 
> minutes, allowing lots of time for human review and assimilation, once I 
>   think that there is a consensus that this is OK.
> 
> Can anyone suggest any further improvements, short of proof-reading all
> 1200 articles?
> 
> Neil
> 
> --------------------------------
> 
> Here are some of the results of the filtering of the original Easton's 
> topics:
> 
> lines with the word TITLE at the start denote articles that passed;
> lines with the word BAD represent articles that failed to pass the
> filter, with the reason for failure.
> 
> 
> BAD A = familiar word
> BAD A type Adam = no comma
> BAD AEnon = too short
> BAD Aaron = familiar word
> BAD Aaronites = too short
> BAD Abaddon = too short
> BAD Abagtha = no comma
> BAD Abana = modern
> TITLE 1 510 Abarim
> BAD Abba = familiar word
> BAD Abda = too short
> BAD Abdeel = too short
> BAD Abdi = no he
> BAD Abdiel = familiar word
> TITLE 2 745 Abdon
> BAD Abednego = too short
> BAD Abel = familiar word
> BAD Abel-beth-maachah = modern
> BAD Abel-cheramim = too short
> TITLE 3 551 Abel-meholah
> BAD Abel-mizraim = too short
> BAD Abel-shittim = too short
> BAD Abez = too short
> BAD Abi-albon = too short
> BAD Abia = too short
> BAD Abiasaph = too short
> TITLE 4 1872 Abiathar
> BAD Abib = too short
> BAD Abida = too short
> BAD Abidan = too short
> BAD Abieezer = too short
> BAD Abiel = too short
> BAD Abiezrite = too short
> BAD Abigail = familiar word
> BAD Abihail = too short
> TITLE 5 891 Abihu
> BAD Abihud = too short
> TITLE 6 2766 Abijah
> BAD Abijam = too short
> BAD Abilene = too short
> BAD Abimael = too short
> TITLE 7 3025 Abimelech
> TITLE 8 817 Abinadab
> BAD Abinoam = too short
> TITLE 9 574 Abiram
> TITLE 10 502 Abishag
> TITLE 11 911 Abishai
> BAD Abishua = too short
> BAD Abishur = too short
> BAD Abital = too short
> BAD Abitub = too short
> BAD Abjects = too short
> BAD Ablution = familiar word
> BAD Abner = familiar word
> BAD Abomination = familiar word
> BAD Abomination of Desolation = too short
> BAD Abraham = familiar word
> BAD Abraham's bosom = too short
> BAD Abram = familiar word
> BAD Abronah = too short
> BAD Absalom = familiar word
> BAD Acacia = familiar word
> TITLE 12 1943 Accad
> TITLE 13 574 Accho
> BAD Accuser = familiar word
> BAD Aceldama = modern
> TITLE 14 767 Achaia
> BAD Achaichus = too short
> TITLE 15 823 Achan
> BAD Achbor = too short
> TITLE 16 1026 Achish
> BAD Achmetha = familiar word
> BAD Achor = familiar word
> BAD Achsah = too short
> BAD Achshaph = modern
> BAD Achzib = modern
> BAD Acre = familiar word
> TITLE 17 5435 Acts of the Apostles
> BAD Adah = too short
> BAD Adam = familiar word
> BAD Adamah = modern
> BAD Adamant = familiar word
> BAD Adar = familiar word
> BAD Adbeel = too short
> BAD Addar = no he
> BAD Adder = familiar word
> BAD Addi = too short
> BAD Addon = too short
> BAD Adiel = familiar word
> BAD Adin = familiar word
> BAD Adina = no he
> BAD Adino = too short
> BAD Adjuration = familiar word
> BAD Admah = too short
> BAD Adnah = too short
> TITLE 18 1328 Adoni-zedec
> BAD Adonibezek = too short
> TITLE 19 984 Adonijah
> BAD Adonikam = too short
> BAD Adoniram = familiar word
> BAD Adoption = familiar word
> BAD Adoram = no he
> BAD Adore = familiar word
> BAD Adrammelech = familiar word
> BAD Adramyttium = too short
> BAD Adria = modern
> BAD Adriel = too short
> BAD Adullam = familiar word
> BAD Adullamite = familiar word
> BAD Adultery = familiar word
> TITLE 20 571 Adummim
> BAD Adversary = familiar word
> BAD Advocate = familiar word
> BAD Affection = familiar word
> BAD Affinity = familiar word
> BAD Afflictions = too short
> BAD Agabus = too short
> BAD Agag = familiar word
> BAD Agagite = too short
> BAD Agate = familiar word
> BAD Age = familiar word
> BAD Agee = familiar word
> BAD Agony = familiar word
> BAD Agriculture = familiar word
> TITLE 21 615 Agrippa I
> TITLE 22 655 Agrippa II
> BAD Ague = familiar word
> 
> 
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