Hi All,

I am working with Wiki Ed this semester in a class project to edit disciplinary topics related to digital literacy and rhetoric, with an eye towards editing articles to better represent minority scholars and research.

As part of this project, I would also like students to be able to analyze disciplinary coverage (or lack of coverage) on topics related to this subject area (digital literacy, digital rhetoric, digital humanities). I am looking for tools that would help me do quantitative analysis of mainspace Wikipedia articles within a given category - so that I can follow these up with some local qualitative analysis regarding the representation (or lack of representation) of minority scholar(s)/(ship)coverage in the encyclopedia.

So far I have identified Yanker (https://tools.wmflabs.org/pirsquared/ts_archive/mzmcbride/yanker.py/)and XTools (https://xtools.wmflabs.org) as possible tools for this kind of work. Just wondering if anyone had any additional ideas? Thanks,

Matt

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