wikiTools (version 1.2.14)

w_Exhibit: Extract the first paragraph of a Wikipedia article with a maximum of characters.

Description

Extract the first paragraph of a Wikipedia article with a maximum of characters.

Usage

w_Exhibit(
  entities,
  mode = "default",
  langsorder = "en",
  wikilangs = langsorder,
  links = c("wikidata", "wiki", "BNE", "RAH", "ISNI"),
  info = FALSE,
  imgpath = NULL,
  nlimit = MW_LIMIT,
  debug = FALSE,
  ...
)

Value

An object of gallery_rd3 class.

Arguments

entities

A vector or data.frame of entities, whose entries have to be extracted.

mode

type of data to be extracted, default=people.

langsorder

Order of languages in which the information will be returned, separated with '|'. If no information is given in the first language, next is used. For label and description, English is used for language failback, if they are not in English, then information is returned in any else language. The language for label and description are also returned. If langsorder=='', then no other information than labels or descriptions are returned in any language, only Wikidata entities, else, use the order in this parameter to retrieve information.

wikilangs

List of languages to limit the search of Wikipedia pages, using "|" as separator. Wikipedias pages are returned in same order as languages in this parameter. If wikilangs='' the function returns Wikipedia pages in any language, not sorted.

links

Vector of IDs for linking to its catalog. V.gr. c("Wikidata", "Wikipedia", "BNE", "RAH)

info

Add the first paragraph of Wikipedia in the template.

imgpath

Name of the directory where there are image files.

nlimit

If the number of entities exceeds this number, chunked queries are done. This is the number of entities requested in each chunk. Please, reduce the default value if error is raised.

debug

For debugging (info or query).

...

Same arguments as in netCoin::exhibit().

Author

Modesto Escobar, Department of Sociology and Communication, University of Salamanca. See https://sociocav.usal.es/blog/modesto-escobar/

Examples

if (FALSE) {
## Obtaining information in English Wikidata
names <- c("William Shakespeare", "Pedro Almodovar")
info <- getWikiInf(names)
w_Exhibit(info$Q)
}