Dear Shijith,
This is very interesting work but I think it misses a lot of action due to
the rather simple approach to identifying dispute. An example is that calls
for action are often made from Whatsapp Group and on Twitter - such as
("meat puppet") campaigns to make changes - for instance to alter the entry
on "Love Jihad" to read differently or for "Adam's Bridge" to be renamed
which have resulted in those pages being placed on protection - that in
turn drastically lowers edit revert counts. A script that follows
highly-followed twitter handles (OpIndia for instance) complaining about
Wikipedia pages might show up more disputed pages.
best wishes
Shyamal
https://muscicapa.blogspot.com
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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/>.)
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> 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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