Wikipedia page names about congress-legislators

[konklone]

I feel very positively about this. This is useful, as long as it can be reliably scraped, and it sounds like it can. CCing @apendleton and @arowla in case they have anything to add - I know they did some work on this for Influence Explorer and had a more difficult time, but that might have just been for state legislators.

[dwillis]

definitely +1

[apendleton]

Yeah, we don't generally have too much trouble with current members of Congress. State legislators and (especially) companies are much more challenging. We can probably export a dump of the current state of our Congress Wikipedia matches if you want, though it sounds like you guys have the situation under control.

[JoshData]

@dwillis : Note some C-SPAN id corrections: d5f5404

The new wikipedia id field and script are committed in f619d59.

There's more on Wikipedia than I brought in: the CongLinks template has fields for FollowTheMoney, even IMDB! The full list is here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:CongLinks

@apendleton : I think I got it, but if you have time to cross-check to find mistakes that'd be appreciated.

Closing.