get_history_count: Count how many times Wikipedia articles have been edited

In wikkitidy: Tidy Analysis of Wikipedia

Count how many times Wikipedia articles have been edited

Description

Count how many times Wikipedia articles have been edited

Usage

get_history_count(
  title,
  type = c("edits", "anonymous", "bot", "editors", "minor", "reverted"),
  from = NULL,
  to = NULL,
  language = "en",
  failure_mode = c("error", "quiet")
)

Arguments

title	A vector of article titles
type	The type of edit to count
from	Optional: a vector of revision ids
to	Optional: a vector of revision ids
language	Vector of two-letter language codes for Wikipedia editions
failure_mode	What to do if no data is found. See get_rest_resource()

Value

A tibble::tbl_df with two columns:

• 'count': integer, the number of edits of the given type

• 'limit': logical, whether the 'count' exceeds the API's limit. Each type of edit has a different limit. If the 'count' exceeds the limit, then the limit is returned as the count and 'limit' is set to TRUE

Examples

# Get the number of edits made by auto-confirmed editors to a page between
# revisions 384955912 and 406217369
get_history_count(
  title="Jupiter",
  type="editors",
  from=384955912,
  to=406217369,
  failure_mode="quiet"
  )

# Compare which authors have the most edit activity
authors <- tibble::tribble(
  ~author,
  "Jane Austen",
  "William Shakespeare",
  "Emily Dickinson"
) %>%
  dplyr::mutate(get_history_count(author, failure_mode="quiet"))
authors

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