PagesBot

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Notes

The code used to run tests in the sandbox (like this) can be found on Github.

Daniel Mietchen has been working on a similar thing using manual queries and QuickStatements — See: github.com/WDscholia/scholia/issues/2152

Description

This bot infers number of pages (P1104) (type: page (Q1069725)) from page(s) (P304) statements on items where instance of (P31) is equal to scholarly article (Q13442814), it them adds a reference with based on heuristic (P887) equal to inferred from page(s) (Q110768064).

For example, a scholarly article that only has:

page(s)	2-5 edit 0 references add reference
		add value

Would have the following statement added:

number of pages	4 page edit 1 reference based on heuristic inferred from page(s) add reference
		add value

Regular expression used

^([a-zA-Z]*)(\d+)\s*(-|‐|‑|‒|–|—|―|−)\s*([a-zA-Z]*)(\d+)$

This results in five groups:

1. The first prepended character
2. The first page
3. The 'to' symbol (hyphen-minus, hyphen, non-breaking hyphen, figure dash, en dash, em dash, horizontal bar, or a minus sign)
4. The last prepended character
5. The last page

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Calculation used

last_page - first_page + 1