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 <lshya...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Of interest... > > datam...@googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/forum/?utm_source=digest&utm_medium=email#!forum/datameet/topics> > Google > Groups > <https://groups.google.com/forum/?utm_source=digest&utm_medium=email/#!overview> > <https://groups.google.com/forum/?utm_source=digest&utm_medium=email/#!overview> > Topic digest > View all topics > <https://groups.google.com/forum/?utm_source=digest&utm_medium=email#!forum/datameet/topics> > > - plug -- data story on wikipedia abuse in India > <#m_-2325107674615411204_m_2941445850799524427_group_thread_0> - 1 > Update > > plug -- data story on wikipedia abuse in India > <http://groups.google.com/group/datameet/t/a7b03e58922fbe17?utm_source=digest&utm_medium=email> > Shijith Kunhitty <shijit...@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_-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+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > _______________________________________________ > Wikimediaindia-l mailing list -- wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe send an email to wikimediaindia-l-le...@lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit ᐧ
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