Note: I've stopped working on this project in favor of the WikipeDPLA Chrome extension.

WikipeDPLA

A script meant to be run on Wikipedia it pages, it attempts to find relevant items in the Digital Public Library of America. The page Wikipedia:TWL/FindDPLA describes how to install it as a User script. Here's what it looks like in action:

Where it looks

To find relevant items, the script tries a few different methods of scraping search terms from the page & stops after the first query that returns results from DPLA. The search terms are (in order):

• the article's title
• if there's any '"Foo" redirects here' notices up top, it'll try 'foo'
• any categories, starting with the first category listed

It only runs in the main (articles) namespace.

#LibHack

Written at #libhack at ALA MidWinter on Friday, January 24th, 2014 with help from Jake Orlowitz. I wrote a blog post about the experience on the ACRL Tech Connect blog.