Comments on: Where in the Wikiverse is the Brooklyn Museum? /2010/09/21/where-in-the-wikiverse-is-the-brooklyn-museum/ Technology blog of the Brooklyn Museum Fri, 04 Apr 2014 18:41:07 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.3 By: Paul Beaudoin /2010/09/21/where-in-the-wikiverse-is-the-brooklyn-museum/comment-page-1/#comment-1576 Tue, 05 Oct 2010 15:43:28 +0000 /bloggers/2010/09/21/where-in-the-wikiverse-is-the-brooklyn-museum/#comment-1576 Hi Richard. We’re hitting the MediaWiki api with a PHP library called “Wikimedia Bot Classes” to retrieve the raw embed and revision data. From there home-baked scripts take over. The classification of revisions is arduous: For each upload we iterate over the full set of revisions, identifying the modification in each, and classifying each modification as one or many general classes of edit (e.g. location, genre, subject). This has largely been automated but still requires human intervention to classify some ambiguous edits.

@pfctdayelise: Yes and no. The page updates nightly to reflect new embeds, but the process of categorizing revisions requires too much human intervention to automate. The What Are They Editing chart will thus remain frozen until another analysis is run.

]]> By: pfctdayelise /2010/09/21/where-in-the-wikiverse-is-the-brooklyn-museum/comment-page-1/#comment-1558 Tue, 28 Sep 2010 13:26:28 +0000 /bloggers/2010/09/21/where-in-the-wikiverse-is-the-brooklyn-museum/#comment-1558 Very interesting page! Will it automatically update over time?

I’m also curious if anyone has a take on the deletion discussion. I have no idea how bequeathing affects copyright. Maybe it’s a kind of irrelevant concern for the Brooklyn’s purposes?

]]> By: Richard McCoy /2010/09/21/where-in-the-wikiverse-is-the-brooklyn-museum/comment-page-1/#comment-1544 Thu, 23 Sep 2010 11:21:05 +0000 /bloggers/2010/09/21/where-in-the-wikiverse-is-the-brooklyn-museum/#comment-1544 Very interesting; thanks for posting this.

What tool did you use to get the data?

The data it shows that most people edit location, genre, medium, and subject–all very useful bits of information.

It’s also super interesting to see that nearly 10 edits have occurred for each image!

Certainly the number of images used in articles will continue to grow.

Best,
Richard

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