From 3a341157017f82a9eacf262d65f00b7ccefab60c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Lee Stott <leestott@microsoft.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2026 07:54:09 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Update 1-Introduction/01-defining-data-science/notebook.ipynb

Co-authored-by: Copilot <175728472+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
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 .../01-defining-data-science/notebook.ipynb   | 39 ++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 38 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/1-Introduction/01-defining-data-science/notebook.ipynb b/1-Introduction/01-defining-data-science/notebook.ipynb
index 4648caf0..e571610f 100644
--- a/1-Introduction/01-defining-data-science/notebook.ipynb
+++ b/1-Introduction/01-defining-data-science/notebook.ipynb
@@ -91,7 +91,44 @@
    "cell_type": "code",
    "execution_count": 64,
    "source": [
-    "from bs4 import BeautifulSoup\r\n\r\n# Parse the HTML content\r\nsoup = BeautifulSoup(text, 'html.parser')\r\n\r\n# Extract only the main article content from Wikipedia\r\n# Wikipedia uses 'mw-parser-output' class for the main article content\r\ncontent = soup.find('div', class_='mw-parser-output')\r\n\r\nif content:\r\n    # Get text from the content, excluding navigation, references, etc.\r\n    text = content.get_text(separator=' ', strip=True)\r\n    print(text[:1000])\r\nelse:\r\n    print(\"Could not find main content. Using full page text.\")\r\n    text = soup.get_text(separator=' ', strip=True)\r\n    print(text[:1000])"
+    "from bs4 import BeautifulSoup\r\n",
+    "\r\n",
+    "# Parse the HTML content\r\n",
+    "soup = BeautifulSoup(text, 'html.parser')\r\n",
+    "\r\n",
+    "# Extract only the main article content from Wikipedia\r\n",
+    "# Wikipedia uses 'mw-parser-output' class for the main article content\r\n",
+    "content = soup.find('div', class_='mw-parser-output')\r\n",
+    "\r\n",
+    "def _clean_wikipedia_content(content_node):\r\n",
+    "    \"\"\"Remove common non-article elements from a Wikipedia content node.\"\"\"\r\n",
+    "    # Strip jump links, navboxes, reference lists/superscripts, edit sections, TOC, sidebars, etc.\r\n",
+    "    selectors = [\r\n",
+    "        '.mw-jump-link',\r\n",
+    "        '.navbox',\r\n",
+    "        '.reflist',\r\n",
+    "        'sup.reference',\r\n",
+    "        '.mw-editsection',\r\n",
+    "        '.hatnote',\r\n",
+    "        '.metadata',\r\n",
+    "        '.infobox',\r\n",
+    "        '#toc',\r\n",
+    "        '.toc',\r\n",
+    "        '.sidebar',\r\n",
+    "    ]\r\n",
+    "    for selector in selectors:\r\n",
+    "        for el in content_node.select(selector):\r\n",
+    "            el.decompose()\r\n",
+    "\r\n",
+    "if content:\r\n",
+    "    # Clean the content node to better approximate article text only.\r\n",
+    "    _clean_wikipedia_content(content)\r\n",
+    "    text = content.get_text(separator=' ', strip=True)\r\n",
+    "    print(text[:1000])\r\n",
+    "else:\r\n",
+    "    print(\"Could not find main content. Using full page text.\")\r\n",
+    "    text = soup.get_text(separator=' ', strip=True)\r\n",
+    "    print(text[:1000])"
    ],
    "outputs": [
     {