WikiSocio (version 0.7.0)

A MediaWiki API Wrapper

Description

MediaWiki is wiki platform. Providing the infrastructure of Wikipedia, it also offers very sophisticated archiving functionalities. This package is built to store these wiki's archives to R object - data-frame, lists, vector and variables. All data are downloaded with the help of MediaWiki REST API. For instance, you can get all revisions made by a contributor - contrib_list(), all the revisions of a page page_revisions(), or create corpus of contributors - corpus_contrib_create() - and pages corpus_page_create(). Then, you can make these corpus rich of data about contributors or pages - corpus_contrib_data() or corpus_page_data().

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install.packages('WikiSocio')

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0.7.0

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GPL-3

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Last Published

February 23rd, 2016

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