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plug -- data story on wikipedia abuse in India http://groups.google.com/group/datameet/t/a7b03e58922fbe17?utm_source=digest&utm_medium=email 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.)
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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:
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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 Back to top <#m_-2325107674615411204_m_2941445850799524427_digest_top> You received this digest because you're subscribed to updates for this group. You can change your settings on the group membership page https://groups.google.com/forum/?utm_source=digest&utm_medium=email#!forum/datameet/join . To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it send an email to datameet+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. _______________________________________________ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list -- wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe send an email to wikimediaindia-l-leave@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit
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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 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:CSinha_(WMF))
Facilitator, Movement Strategy and Governance https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Movement_Strategy_and_Governance, SAARC, Wikimedia Foundation https://wikimediafoundation.org/
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...
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plug -- data story on wikipedia abuse in India http://groups.google.com/group/datameet/t/a7b03e58922fbe17?utm_source=digest&utm_medium=email 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 Back to top <#m_8803393495091618041_m_-2325107674615411204_m_2941445850799524427_digest_top> You received this digest because you're subscribed to updates for this group. You can change your settings on the group membership page https://groups.google.com/forum/?utm_source=digest&utm_medium=email#!forum/datameet/join . To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it send an email to datameet+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. _______________________________________________ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list -- wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe send an email to wikimediaindia-l-leave@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit
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