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Visual Analytics for Sustainability and Climate Change/Articles

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The research project investigates a list of articles coming from the work of the WikiProject Climate change.

Data collection

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Every article under investigation is provided with an extensive set of metadata collected through the Wikipedia API with custom Python functions. The following is the list of metadata extracted:

  • Article title
  • Instance in Wikidata (if available)
  • Wikidata ID
  • Link to the English version of the article
  • Link to the Italian version of the article (if available)
  • Link to the French version of the article (if available)
  • Link to the Spanish version of the article (if available)
  • Total views
  • Average page views over the entire life of the article
  • Article assessment
  • List of Wikipedia categories
  • Date of the first edit
  • Size of the article (at the moment in which the data was collected)
  • Size of the incipit
  • Size of the discussion page
  • Number of editors
  • Number of edits
  • Number of warning tags
  • Restrictions
  • Number of linguistic versions available
  • List of article revisions metadata (size and timestamp)
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