Contropedia
- Logo
Contropedia provides a resource and tool to analyse and visualise ideological controversies on Wikipedia
- URL
- https://www.contropedia.net
- Keywords
- wikipedia, controversies, debate, argumentation, bias, information curation, media
- Project Current Phase
- Beta version
- Project Start Date
- 2014
- Launch Date
- 2014
- Most Recent Update
- 2015
- Update Frequency
- Yes
- Thematic Focus
- Controversies
- Issue addressed
- Tracking democratic debates
- Geographic Focus
- World
Experience
How does a user interact with and navigate the project?
- Narrative
- Query
- Yes
- Geographic Map
- Timelines
- Lists
- Yes
- Network Visualisation
- Other Visualisation
- Raw Data
Description
Summary of the project and its approach
A platform that enables you to view edits and history of controversial topics on Wikipedia
- Approach (How?)
- This research project -- currently still a demo version -- lets you explore and visualizes Wikipedia controversial articles by browsing through edits and changes stemming from different opinions and ideological agendas. With this research project, not only one can better understand the arguments claimed by the different parties but also can grasp how democratic debates get influenced by particular interests.
- Language
- English
- Commissioner
- European Commission
- Publisher
- Universiteit van Amsterdam (Netherlands)
- Partners
- Sciences Po, Density Design, Barcelona Media, Internet Science network, Digital Methods Initiative, EMAPS
Impact
Indicators of reach and impact of the project
- Target Audience
- Online Audience Reached
- Large Network
- No ( followers)
- Publisher's Twitter Followers
- Online Rank
- Google: 2 Alexa: 8,757,424 OSE Domain Authority Rank: 17/100 Marketing Grader Rank: 48/100 ()
- Online Rank (Publisher)
- Google: Alexa:
- News Source
- Some
- Offline Audience Reached
- International
- Outcome
- Academic papers
- Last updated
- 12/8/2015
- Attempts against the project
- N/A /
Technology
What tools and code were used to create the project?
- Tech Best Practices:
- Code Repository
- http://www.contropedia.net/#code
- Tool
- WikiTalk Parser
- ABCD-Gephi-Plugin
- ContropediaTalk
- Database
- Frontend
- Sigma.js
- d3.js
- Backend
- Data Format
- Data Standard
- Technical Documentation URL
- Technical Architecture Documentation
- Schema Documentation
- Design Documentation
- API Documentation
Data Sources
- Data Sources
Team
Team size and expertise
- Team Size
- Medium
- Team Experience
- Research
- None
- Data Science
- Dedicated
- Engineering
- Dedicated
- Design
- Dedicated
Project Methodology
What strategies were in place for managing the project?
- Project Methodology
- Agile
- Open Source
- Yes
- Open Data
- No
- Budget
- N/A
- Contracting
- N/A
- Risk Planning
- No planning
- Sustainability Planning
- N/A
Documented Practices
Documentation about project practices
- Organise / Analyse Data
- http://www.contropedia.net/publications/Borra%20et%20al.%20-%202015%20-%20Societal%20Controversies%20in%20Wikipedia%20Articles%20-%20post-print.pdf
Practices
How projects handle different aspects of data management
- Data Modeling
- Complex
- Ethical Collection
- No guidelines
- Ethical Storage
- N/A
- Data Collection
- External Sources
- Data Collection
- Data Verification
- No
- Data Cleaning
- N/A
- Data Analysis
- Machine Learning
- Data Description
- N/A
- Data Licensing
- N/A
- Ethical Publishing
- Cited Sources
- Ethical Publishing
- Data Publishing Mode
- Scrapable