tl;dr: You can view the contents of this notebook here.
This is a tutorial for performing queries on the Wikipedia API and analyzing the data using methods from social network analysis. The tutorial currently covers four major sections:
- "Write a basic query against the Wikipedia API"
- "Create a hyperlink network"
- "Get all the revisions made to an article"
- "Make a co-authorship network of the hyperlink neighborhood"
This tutorial was developed using Anaconda 2.1
and wikitools
. After installing Anaconda, run pip install wikitools
at the console to install from PyPi.