Sentiment Analysis of Talk Pages

Words, words, words. (Hamlet, Act II Scene II)

App & API for sentiment analysis of MediaWiki talk pages made during Wikimedia Hackathon 2017 in Vienna.

Author: Mikhail Popov (Wikimedia Foundation)
License: MIT
Status: Active

Progress

• API endpoint
  • Download talk page
  • Parse talk page
    • Parse classic talk pages (really hard)
    • Parse Flow-enabled talk pages
  • Tidy sentiment analysis
  • Anonymize and summarize
  • Output
• Shiny companion app
  • User inputs
  • Show data and behind-the-scenes code
    • Show API call
    • Show JSON output
  • Data visualization

Additional Information

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Future Work

One possible application of the service is using to calculate some sort of a "discussion civility score" based on the various sentiments expressed and the relative expressions of those sentiments.