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 < fredericknoron...@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 <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_8803393495091618041_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_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+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 > _______________________________________________ > 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
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