Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Arctic/Likely articles

The script
A script was used to generate a list of articles that had coordinates north of the arctic circle. (source)
 * 1) It first generated a list of all the transclusions of Template:Coor URL and Template:Coord, which together are used for all of, or almost all of, the coordinates on Wikipedia.
 * 2) It then scanned a database dump (from 2008-07-24) looking at all the pages from the first list
 * 3) It finds the latitude on the page using several regexes.
 * 4) It then converted the latitude to decimal format (rounded to 4 decimal places)
 * 5) It finally checks if the latitude is between 66.56083 and 90

Possible sources of error

 * Some infobox templates designed for specific regions that fall entirely in one hemisphere don't have a parameter for N/S, so the script assumes North. There's very little in the Antarctic Circle besides Antarctica and not every infobox does this, so this should not be a huge problem.
 * If a page has multiple coordinates, the script uses whichever matches a regex first.
 * The script can't be certain whether or not the coordinates actually refer to the subject of the article.
 * If the coordinates in the article are wrong, the script will be wrong.
 * The script generally assumes latitude will come before longitude, if for some reason it doesn't, the script may interpret the longitude as latitude.