About the repo

This repo contains code for a project that checks for abuse of Wikipedia's Indian pages. Here's my blog post about it.

Essentially, the code looks at over 150k pages on wikipedia relating to India, checks their page histories, sees how many contributions were reverted -- a sign that a user's contribution was bad and possibly malicious -- tallies them for every page, notes which pages had the most users reverted, and then tweets about it at @abuse_checker every Monday morning.

The code, the process

script_weekly_v09.py has the code that runs weekly, it imports its functions from helpers_v03.py. (script_2021_overview_v02.py was used to prepare stats and charts for my blog post, for taking a look back at 2021 through the lens of wikipedia abuse.)

The whole process is essentially these steps:

• Find out which pages are related to India on wikipedia
• Query the API, fetch edit histories for each page
• See how many users were reverted on each page
• Create CSVs of the pages that had most users reverted
• Create charts using these CSVs and plotly library
• Send out tweets containing these charts

Suggestions, feedback

You can contact me at mail@shijith.com or at this Twitter handle @abuse_checker.