Wikipedia Heat Map

Inspiration

Growing misinformation on the internet concerned us, and we were hoping to potentially combat this with an extension to evaluate contentious information.

What it does

Currently, the project is only capable of showing the difference in size of edits between two edits and the date of the edits. Furthermore, we intended to add Sentiment Analysis as a way to further evaluate potential bias in Wikipedia pages.

How we built it

The project was intended to be used as a Chrome extension and was built as such. We utilized Javascript in order to program functionality. HTML was used as the extension called for it, and CSS would have been used to insert and style highlights and text edits had we gotten to this point.

Challenges we ran into

Accessing data and understanding the Wikimedia API proved to be more of a challenge than intended and took up much of our time. Furthermore, the Sentiment Analysis program did not interact as well with our written code as we had hoped.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We were able to properly get Wikimedia to work with us, somewhat. We were able to access edit history on a Wikipedia page and access information inside JSON files.

What we learned

How to utilize the Wikimedia API, to a certain extent; how to use certain methods that were outside the scope of what we learned. How to properly collaborate on a group project through Github and other tools.

What's next for Wikipedia Heat Map

Improved functionality that actually highlights contested statements. The only indication we can offer right now is frequency of edits through the number of edits and dates.

Built With

• html
• javascript
• wikimedia