This is a bot running on Wikipedia (as TokenzeroBot) to check and fix redirects to academic journals, according to ISO-4 abbreviations.

It is written in Python 3 using the pywikibot and mwparserfromhell libraries. Since the abbrevISO library is impemented in JavaScript, the Python bot maintains a state in a .json file and a small Node.js script reads the required titles and writes computed abbreviations into the file.

You will need to install the libraries: pip install mwparserfromhell pywikibot python-Levenshtein (possibly pip3 with option --user) and have AbbrevIso.js working: rollup AbbrevIso.js -o nodeBundle.js --f cjs --name AbbrevIso

Pywikibot requires some configuration, you can test it by running python3 abbrevIsoBot.py test (change the code for the write to be non-trivial).

Run python3 abbrevIsoBot.py scrape to scrape all the required pages and redirects. There are around 7500 pages and roughly 2 redirects per page, so with pywikibot defaults this runs about an hour. The state file is now full.

Run ./abbrevIsoBot.js to compute the abbreviations in the state file. The first time is very resource-intensive, it may take another hour. Rerunning the script will only compute missing abbreviations. To recompute all, run ./abbrevIsoBot.js reset.

Run python3 abbrevIsoBot.py fixpages to scrape again, making fixes along the way according to computed abbrevs and make the reports. Since fixpages scrapes evertyhing, you don't need to run scrape again. You will need to run ./abbrevIsoBot.js in case new titles appear.

See the code (abbrevIsoBot.py) for some basic configuration and more.