WIScker

Last Updated: 10/17/2018 12:00:00 AM
Site: http://cloud.tapor.ca/wiscker/

WIScker is a tool for generating corpi from Wikipedia articles. It takes all of the various versions and edits of an article over time and creates a comparative corpus out of them. The corpus can then be analyzed using a built-in button to access voyant tools, or can be exported in a text file in various different formats.

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Creator(s): Andrea and Robert Budac

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Type of analysis: Capture Enrichment Gathering
Type of license: Open Source
Web Usable: Run in Browser
Ease of Use: Very Easy
Usage: New
Tool Family: TAPoRware
TaDiRAH Goals: Capture Enrichment
TaDiRAH Methods: Cleanup Gathering

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Wikipedia Scraping and Analysis

This list is focused on using the WIScker Wikipedia scraper to analyze the historical makeup of a Wikipedia article in different ways. It includes a number of visualizations that can be used with WIScker, and is an interesting and accessible first experience in text analysis. Additionally, by using the Wiki Map Project, users can map the connections between various articles linked to and by their original article of study.

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