wikkitidy

Tidy analysis of Wikipedia in R

https://github.com/wikihistories/wikkitidy

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Tidy analysis of Wikipedia in R

README.Rmd

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output: github_document
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```{r, include = FALSE}
knitr::opts_chunk$set(
  collapse = TRUE,
  comment = "#>",
  fig.path = "man/figures/README-",
  out.width = "100%"
)
```

# wikkitidy 


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Tidy analysis of Wikipedia in R

## What's in a name?

**wiki**: There are many wikis, but one dominates the Wikiverse. [Wikipedia](https://www.wikipedia.org/) is the largest repository of facts ever assembled by human hands. Scholars the world over are turning to Wikipedia to understand how twenty-first century society understands itself.

**quiddity**: [The 'whatness' of a thing](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quiddity). The kind of thing it is. [What is Wikipedia?](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:NOT) Is it merely another encyclopaedia? It is news presented as history? Is it the consensus of a global village, or the battleground of an ideological war?

**tidy**: The best kind of data. R programmers are lucky to have access to the [tidyverse](https://joss.theoj.org/papers/10.21105/joss.01686), a collection of packages that make it easy to analyse, visualise and publish data. This package embodies [tidy data principles](https://www.jstatsoft.org/article/view/v059i10) by returning results from Wikipedia's APIs as tibbles or simple vectors, and by providing a number of vectorised analysis functions that can be applied reliably and without fuss to the data you retrieve.

Thus `wikkitidy`'s aim: to help you work out what Wikipedia is with minimal data wrangling and cleaning. 

## Getting to 1.0

| Version | Feature | Done? |
| ------- | ------- | --- |
| 0.1 | Basic request objects | :white_check_mark: |
| 0.2 | Calls and response objects for [Core](https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:REST_API) and [Wikimedia](https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_REST_API) REST APIs | :white_large_square: |
| 0.3 | Calls and response objects for [MediaWiki Action API Query Modules](https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Query) | :white_large_square: |
| 0.4 | Interface to Wikipedia XML dumps | :white_large_square: |
| 0.5 | Implementation of [Wikiblame](https://github.com/FlominatorTM/wikiblame) | :white_large_square: |
| 0.6 | Calls and response objects for the [XTools](https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/XTools/API) and [WikiMedia](https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/) APIs | :white_large_square: |

## Installation

You can install wikkitidy from CRAN with:

```
install.packages("wikkitidy")
```

You can install the development version from Github with:

```
devtools::install_github("wikihistories/wikkitidy")
```
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## Code of Conduct

Please note that the wikkitidy project is released with a [Contributor Code of Conduct](https://wikihistories.github.io/wikkitidy/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.html). By contributing to this project, you agree to abide by its terms.

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