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().
| Version: | 0.7.0 |
| Depends: | R (≥ 3.0.0) |
| Imports: | httr, igraph, pbapply, plyr, XML, RCurl, stringr |
| Published: | 2016-02-23 |
| Author: | person("Leo", "Joubert", email = "joubert.leo@gmail.com", role = c("aut", "cre")) |
| Maintainer: | Leo Joubert <joubert.leo at gmail.com> |
| License: | GPL-3 |
| NeedsCompilation: | no |
| In views: | WebTechnologies |
| CRAN checks: | WikiSocio results |
| Reference manual: | WikiSocio.pdf |
| Package source: | WikiSocio_0.7.0.tar.gz |
| Windows binaries: | r-devel: WikiSocio_0.7.0.zip, r-release: WikiSocio_0.7.0.zip, r-oldrel: WikiSocio_0.7.0.zip |
| OS X Mavericks binaries: | r-release: WikiSocio_0.7.0.tgz, r-oldrel: WikiSocio_0.7.0.tgz |
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