Note: this version of the tool has been deprecated and may not be functional. University of Amsterdam students and staff can access the latest version of the tool at https://wikitools.digitalmethods.net.
The tool scrapes the complete edit history for a specific Wikipedia page. When the tool finds an IP address instead of a user name it will use
Maxmind's GeoCity Lite database to resolve the IP address to a geo-location. This tool is inspired on
http://wikiscanner.virgil.gr
Input: a wikipedia page (e.g.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Wide_Web)
Output: a table with the following columns:
- URL pointing to the specific version of the page
- the time of the edit
- the date of the edit
- a link to the page of the user who edited
- the user name or IP address
- the size of the edit
- the comment accompanying the edit
- bot/using (when a bot or tool assisted user - detected by the phrase 'using ', is encountered)
- city (when an IP address was detected instead of a user)
- country (when an IP address was detected instead of a user)
- country code (when an IP address was detected instead of a user)
- latitude (when an IP address was detected instead of a user)
- longitude (when an IP address was detected instead of a user)
Note: if very little results are returned while you expect more, make sure that the URL you have inputted does not actually redirect to a different Wikipedia page.