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unitedstates / bill-nicknames

Table of popular nicknames and keywords for bills, curated manually.

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Harvest names from Wikipedia #10

Open nickom opened 9 years ago

nickom commented 9 years ago

There are a number of fields in the Wikipedia template for US legislation that hopefully make harvesting this material possible (if anyone knows how to pull bulk data from Wikipedia): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Infobox_U.S._legislation

Fields that looked helpful: nickname Other short titles acronym

Fields to match bill data with Wikipedia: introducedin introducedbill introducedby introduceddate

A lot of bills never get nicknames, but here are some recent examples: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agricultural_Act_of_2014 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Border_Security,_Economic_Opportunity,_and_Immigration_Modernization_Act_of_2013 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consolidated_Appropriations_Act,_2014

plantfansam commented 9 years ago

This is a good idea! Definitely will look into this!