wikix

wikix is an R package that accesses the XTools API, providing statistics tools for Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects.

Installation

You can install the development version of wikix with the remotes package:

# install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("joeroe/wikix")

Example

Get the number of edits by user Jimbo Wales on the English Wikipedia, per month:

library(wikix)
wpx_user_month_counts("Jimbo Wales")
#> Requesting https://xtools.wmflabs.org/api/user/month_counts/enwiki/Jimbo_Wales
#> ...
#> # A tibble: 4,336 × 4
#>    namespace year  month edits
#>    <chr>     <chr> <chr> <int>
#>  1 Main      2001  3        20
#>  2 Main      2001  4         6
#>  3 Main      2001  5         1
#>  4 Main      2001  6         2
#>  5 Main      2001  7         1
#>  6 Main      2001  8         2
#>  7 Main      2001  9         8
#>  8 Main      2001  10       30
#>  9 Main      2001  11       13
#> 10 Main      2001  12       79
#> # ℹ 4,326 more rows