User:Rfassbind/Monthly update procedure for minor planets

Monthly update procedure

• User:Rfassbind/Minor planet redirects of non-exsitent articles § Updates since March 2016
  • create Diff list (new names) with frodox/local-links, loc, server
  • create PREVIOUS.inc on server for next update
• Downloads:

1. MPC numbered MPC data-page > section "Discoveries" (direct file link: here, 50MP)
2. JPL "Numbered Asteroids (51 MB)" at http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/?sb_elem

• Uploads
  • upload JPL and MPC files plus names.inc's to server

• Amendmends:
  • TODO: use general config to set all variables in one location, once
  • cls MPC500kReader adjust path "/data_mpc/NumberedMPs_sep4_2016.txt"
  • cls LOMPstatistics adjust path "jpl_data/ELEMENTS.NUMBR_23Aug", Template:Minor_planet_color_code_legend
  • cls JPLfile adjust path "jpl_data/ELEMENTS.NUMBR_23Aug" (colorizer LOMP)
  • cls MPCArchive add new M.P.C release date and NumberRange

• LOMPD
  • run sanity and update on discoverers (astronomers + institution)
  • Handle removed discoverers: (or) OK, no dropout discoverers found
  • Add new discoverers (or) No new discoverers found in MPC-500k list
  • Update Discovery Count on astronomers/institution in lead of LOMP (1006)

• Update LoNMP: Named Minor Planets lists
  • List of named minor planets (alphabetical) (LoNMP-abc)
  • List of named minor planets (numerical) (LoNMP-num)

• New Names
  • Generate new Names Diff
  • Update Updates_since_March_2016 and create project page
  • Create #Rs and talk-Rs

• Update LOMP
  • New names
  • Revise discoverers
  • complete and create pages for newly numbered bodies

• Update MoMP (only after JPL-feed is completed)

Practical steps

1. Update new names, from MPC-alphbetical list (diff to previous)
2. Create project page for batch of newly named
3. check newly released M.P.C errata section for changed names (move #R or article before #R of corrected version is created redundandly)
4. download MPC-numbered 500k file, (last number: 480806, 14 Nov 2016), move file and adjust code to new file
5. LOMPD: add new discoverers
6. LOMPD: update discovery count on astronomers/institutions
7. LOMPD: update lead: "...MPC credits a total of 480,806 numbered minor planets to 1,007 astronomers and 237 dedicated institutions, respectively."
8. LOMPD: sanity check
9. LOMP: complete last existing page, add discoverer links
10. LOMP: create new pLOMP, add bodies, add discoverer links, create talk-page
11. #Rs MP-objects: create/move #Rs for newly named MPs. Create talk-page, create non-diacritical versions, adjust existing prov. #Rs to double redirects. Re-check erratas (see Tom's guideline). FIXES: sortkey in redirect generator (last cat), still displays prov. desig not non-diacritical article name (as long as JPL SBDB is not updated; tool does not need JPLdata for this).
12. update LoNMP: alphabetical and numerical version
13. download: JPL "Numbered Asteroids (51 MB)" at http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/?sb_elem to location amend JPLfile
14. LOMP: colorize rows BG, for completed and new partial lists