Hi Shijith, 

I just read this - https://shijith.com/blog/wikipedia-page-abuse/ and I wanted to say that the research is superbly phenomenal. 

Regards,


Chitraparna Sinha (Meta)

Facilitator, Movement Strategy and Governance, SAARC, Wikimedia Foundation




On Thu, Dec 23, 2021 at 1:24 PM Frederick Noronha <fredericknoronha2@gmail.com> wrote:
Indeed a serious issue.
Lots of politicization of India-related content on the Wikipedia, esp English, which I'm familiar with.
Activists, environmental campaigners and Opposition figures seem to be specially targeted.
Some of them have pages which read like "controversies about" pages.
All are technically superbly crafted, and those who are doing this know what they are doing.
Shijith has done a good job with his data story, which makes the debate less subjective. FN

On Wed, 22 Dec 2021 at 11:52, Shyamal Lakshminarayanan <lshyamal@gmail.com> wrote:


Of interest...

Shijith Kunhitty <shijithpk@gmail.com>: Dec 21 12:37AM -0800

Hi, my name is Shijith, and I'm a freelance data journalist. (Worked
previously at Hindustan Times and IndiaSpend, have also contributed to
datameet.org in the past <http://datameet.org/author/shijithpk/>.)
 
Just wanted to plug a data story I did recently about Wikipedia abuse in
India. Such abuse is an old problem, but it's getting more media attention
with users distorting facts on pages about the Delhi riots or farmer
protests. Sometimes users engage in straight out vandalism where they
delete whole sections from a page.
 
I tried to determine which wikipedia pages faced the most abuse this year,
and I also introduce a twitter account that allows people to track
wikipedia abuse weekly.
 
This is the link to the story:
https://shijith.com/blog/wikipedia-page-abuse/
 
This is the twitter account for tracking wikipedia abuse every week:
http://twitter.com/abuse_checker
 
And here's the python code I used for the project:
https://github.com/shijithpk/wikipedia_abuse_checker
 
(Am in the process of re-working the code. Right now it's querying the
wikipedia API every week for the edit histories of over 150k articles, and
the whole run is taking 2 days now. Discovered an API endpoint for recent
changes that should make things more efficient.)
 
Have any questions or feedback, do let me know!
Thanks, Shijith
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