what's this all about??
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Today's Topics:
1. Collecting data on page revisions over time
(SEAN CHRISTOPHER BUCHANAN)
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Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2017 15:39:21 +0000
From: SEAN CHRISTOPHER BUCHANAN <Sean.Buchanan2(a)umanitoba.ca>
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Subject: [Xmldatadumps-l] Collecting data on page revisions over time
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Hello,
Hello,
My name is Sean Buchanan. I am a professor of Business Administration at
the Asper
School of Business at the University of Manitoba.
My colleagues and I are trying to collect a certain
type of data from
Wikipedia and would like some advice on the most efficient and
user
friendly way of collecting this data.
We are looking to collect data on the difference between revisions over
the
lifetime of a three Wikipedia pages (see attached screenshot)
We haven't found a way to do that through the
channels on the web page
and were wondering if you have any ideas on how such data
could be
collected?
We are interested in the revision history for the following pages:
1) Capitalism
2) Socialism
3) Communism
Thank you for your help! I look forward to hearing from you.
Sincerely,
Sean Buchanan