Rdifaz2: Created page with "== Survey of Wikipedia == Alongside this growing knowledge base, we are developing computational methods to examine the scope and structure of hip-hop scholarship already published on Wikipedia. Wikipedia is widely considered the largest general reference source in human history. It receives around 1 billion unique visits per month, ranking consistently among the top 10 most-visited websites in the world. There is currently no established system for analyzing the repr..."

2026-09-03T03:00:47Z

Created page with "== Survey of Wikipedia == Alongside this growing knowledge base, we are developing computational methods to examine the scope and structure of hip-hop scholarship already published on Wikipedia. Wikipedia is widely considered the largest general reference source in human history. It receives around 1 billion unique visits per month, ranking consistently among the top 10 most-visited websites in the world. There is currently no established system for analyzing the repr..."

New page

== Survey of Wikipedia ==

Alongside this growing knowledge base, we are developing computational methods to examine the scope and structure of hip-hop scholarship already published on Wikipedia.

Wikipedia is widely considered the largest general reference source in human history. It receives around 1 billion unique visits per month, ranking consistently among the top 10 most-visited websites in the world.

There is currently no established system for analyzing the representation of Chicago’s hip-hop scholarship on Wikipedia.
To address this, we are using Semantic MediaWiki, the same open-source platform that underlies Wikipedia, so that our data are structured, shareable, and machine-readable for integration with broader digital humanities research.

By comparing patterns between our curated data and Wikipedia’s existing content, we identify coverage gaps, evaluate the quality and reliability of cited sources, and map where Chicago’s contributions remain underrepresented. These findings directly inform a prioritized plan for Wikipedia editing, guiding students and collaborators as they work to expand, correct, and strengthen hip-hop scholarship across open-knowledge platforms.

==Disambiguation and Entity Reconciliation==
Many artists and organizations appear under slightly different names or share names with unrelated subjects. Our student researchers verify and resolve ambiguous or duplicate names by working closely with the staff at the Chicago Hip-Hop Heritage Museum and other community partners.

We also perform [[The Chicago Hip-Hop History Project: Entity reconciliation|entity reconciliation]], a process that aligns our canonical list of Chicago hip-hop figures, organizations, and cultural entities with corresponding entries on Wikipedia and Wikidata.

== Bibliometric Survey ==

At the core of the project is a bibliographic survey of Wikipedia, designed to quantify how Chicago’s hip-hop history has been represented—and where it remains invisible.

<div style="text-align:center; margin:1.5em auto; width:85%; background:#f9f9f9; border:1px solid #ccc; border-radius:8px; padding:1em;">
<h3 style="margin-top:0;">Most Viewed Articles on Wikipedia</h3>
{{#ask:
[[Has Wikipedia 30d pageviews::+]]
| namespace=0
| ?Category=Category
| ?Date of birth=Date of birth
| ?Has Wikipedia 30d pageviews=Pageviews in past 30 days
| ?Has Wikipedia reference count=Citations on Wikipedia
| mainlabel=Article
| sort=Has Wikipedia 30d pageviews
| order=desc
| limit=20
| format=table
}}
<div style="font-size:90%; color:#666; margin-top:0.8em;">
<em>Data sourced from the Wikimedia Pageviews API (30-day total, updated 11/10/25).</em>
</div>
</div>

== Genius ==

We fetch and analyze the following data via the Genius API

'''Total Genius songs'''
*Total number of songs attributed to this artist on Genius.com (including primary tracks and, optionally, features, depending on how the script is configured).
'''Total Genius lyric pageviews'''
*Sum of Genius lyric pageviews (stats.pageviews) across all songs for this artist.
'''Total Genius annotations'''
*Total number of annotations across all Genius song pages for this artist (sum of annotation_count per song).
'''Total Genius contributors'''
*Total number of unique Genius user accounts that have contributed to this artist’s song pages (approximated from Genius stats; may be a lower bound).

<div style="text-align:center; margin:1.5em auto; width:95%; background:#f9f9f9; border:1px solid #ccc; border-radius:8px; padding:1em;">
<h3 style="margin-top:0;">Wikipedia & Genius Attention Summary</h3>

{{#ask:
[[Has Wikipedia 30d pageviews::+]]
[[Has genius artist page::+]]
| mainlabel=Artist
| ?Has Wikipedia 30d pageviews = Wikipedia views (30d)
| ?Has Genius total songs = Genius: total songs
| ?Has Genius total pageviews = Genius: lyric pageviews
| ?Has Genius total annotations = Genius: annotations
| ?Has Genius total contributors = Genius: contributors
| format=table
| class=wikitable sortable smwtable
| sort=Has Wikipedia 30d pageviews
| order=desc
| limit=200
}}

<div style="font-size:90%; color:#666; margin-top:0.8em;">
<em>Wikipedia views from the last 30 days; Genius stats aggregated from the artist’s catalog.</em>
</div>
</div>

Data + Analytics - Revision history