User talk:HistoricMN44
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Zyephyrus (talk) 16:03, 6 May 2013 (UTC)Is this place the right one for the document you have created here? Regards, --Zyephyrus (talk) 16:03, 6 May 2013 (UTC)
- Hi! Thanks for the welcome. I'm very, very new to this, so you could be right. What I am trying to do (related to w:Wikipedia talk:WikiProject United States Federal Government Legislative Data) is put the text of current pieces of legislation in the w:113th United States Congress. We're particularly interested in doing the text that matches the bills from this list: w:List of bills in the 113th United States Congress. I guess I should have been testing some of this in the sandbox space, but I didn't realize how hard or messy it was going to be.
- We have a computer program that takes the official congressional legislation, adds XML tags to it, converts the XML tags to their Wiki__ page links (so the phrase "Attorney General" will link to the wikipedia article about the Attorney General" and the reference 10 U.S.C. 1204 will link to the text or page of that United States Code citation) and spits out a text version of the bill will all the formatting and wikilinks completed. We'd like to begin uploading/adding this information to WikiSource, but I can't figure out how/where to add it. I tried the traditional method of uploading the .pdf text of the document, but it ends up looking terrible and doesn't automatically update the wikilinks.
- One of the other project members has altered the sandbox to show an example of this. See: Wikisource:Sandbox.
- There are existing pieces of legislation that are examples of what I'm going for, I'm just missing all the steps in the middle. See, for example, Omnibus Appropriations Act, 2009/Division F/Title VI, which has blue (and red) links to other named legislation and USC citations. There's a whole category of federal legislation - - that has all sorts of other pieces of legislation in it. These don't seem to have been created using uploaded files. So, if I want to create a page just using Wiki-style text, how do I do this? Or who do I talk to to find out?
- Thanks HistoricMN44 (talk) 17:19, 6 May 2013 (UTC)