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Repo to brainstorm ideas (unconference style) for the rOpenSci hackathon.
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A wrapper for MediaWiki #30

Open karthik opened 10 years ago

karthik commented 10 years ago

There's been a good bit of discussion at various times about building a R wrapper for the MediaWiki API, including from the folks at ZSL when I was last there. We're lucky to have Oliver from the WikiMedia foundation (who also loves R) in town this week.

Anyone else interested in working on this? Pinging folks from a couple of other text mining threads. #4 and @benmarwick

Maybe a project to work on on Tuesday since Oliver is busy Monday.

Ironholds commented 10 years ago

Could be fun. I've already started work on something, but it'd be good to flesh it out, investigate API best practises and such. More heads also means we can get more things done - in the short-term I was just looking at logged-out API queries for example, but things like OAuth integration could make a big difference to query limits.

AnneTheAgile commented 10 years ago

If this gets done, here is a list of API wrappers, to which R could be added; http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Client_code AnneTheAgile

sckott commented 10 years ago

Cool, thanks @AnneTheAgile