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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. | 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== | ==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 | 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 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 == | == 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. | 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. | ||
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Revision as of 18:37, 20 October 2025
✶✶ Welcome to the Chicago Hip-Hop History Project ✶✶
About the Project
Launched in 2024 with support from The 2024 UIC Awards for Creative Activity and in collaboration with the Chicago Hip-Hop Heritage Museum, the Chicago Hip-Hop History Project aims to provide context and connections for all elements of Chicago hip-hop history using the MediaWiki platform.
Canonical List
Our research began by developing a foundational, continuously evolving canonical list of figures, organizations, and cultural entities that shaped the history of Chicago hip-hop, drawing on foundational lists compiled in the 1980s and 1990s.
'The List' is a verified and structured dataset built from archival research, community consultation, and student-led research/documentation. 'The List' currently has 1700 total unique pages including 367 unknown artists that we are currently working to identify. Please see our editors and inclusion criteria pages for more information about our research team and data collection methods.
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 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.
Comparing 'The List' with Wikipedia
180 of the pages in the CHHHP also have a corresponding article on Wikipedia, while 417 do not have a corresponding article. We are currently developing apps to incorporate additional statistics for Wiki article including views, length and number of contributors.
Citation Counter
In-Progress
Most Viewed Articles on Wikipedia
| Article | Pageviews in past 30 days |
|---|---|
| Kanye West | 309,055 |
| King Von | 205,075 |
| Juice WRLD | 114,820 |
| Lil Durk | 90,484 |
| Jennifer Hudson | 89,003 |
| 2hollis | 45,056 |
| Young Dolph | 37,742 |
| Earl Sweatshirt | 29,518 |
| G Herbo | 26,100 |
| Gil Scott-Heron | 25,863 |
| Lupe Fiasco | 22,949 |
| Da Brat | 22,496 |
| Donny Hathaway | 21,659 |
| Vic Mensa | 20,045 |
| Serengeti | 16,543 |
| Fredo Santana | 14,037 |
| Polo G | 11,854 |
| Harold Washington | 11,308 |
| Hitmaka | 10,226 |
| Lil Reese | 9,861 |
| ... further results | |
Data sourced from the Wikimedia Pageviews API (30-day total, updated Oct 18, 2025).
The Elements[1]
✶ DJing
✶ Beatboxing
✶ MCing
More Elements
Click here for a full list of categories including:
- Fashion Designers (1 members)
- Recording Studios
- Record Labels
- and many others...
Genres
The following hip-hop genres are associated with Chicago and have an article on Wikipedia:
EchoNest (Spotify) includes Chicago artists in each of the following genre maps:
* Hip-Hop * Rap * Gangster Rap * Melodic Rap * Golden Age Hip-hop * Hip-house * Chicago Bop * Chicago Rap * Chicago Drill
Recently Updated Pages
- Radio Stations (Modification date"Modification date" is a predefined property that corresponds to the date of the last modification of a subject and is provided by Semantic MediaWiki.: 15 April 2026 19:15:22)
- Doc Illa (Modification date"Modification date" is a predefined property that corresponds to the date of the last modification of a subject and is provided by Semantic MediaWiki.: 15 April 2026 18:03:30)
- Shawn Boyd (Modification date"Modification date" is a predefined property that corresponds to the date of the last modification of a subject and is provided by Semantic MediaWiki.: 15 April 2026 18:00:49)
- Black High-Priestess (Modification date"Modification date" is a predefined property that corresponds to the date of the last modification of a subject and is provided by Semantic MediaWiki.: 15 April 2026 17:59:04)
- DJ 331/3 (Modification date"Modification date" is a predefined property that corresponds to the date of the last modification of a subject and is provided by Semantic MediaWiki.: 15 April 2026 17:56:08)
- Save One (Modification date"Modification date" is a predefined property that corresponds to the date of the last modification of a subject and is provided by Semantic MediaWiki.: 15 April 2026 17:54:10)
- Super Business Women Show (Modification date"Modification date" is a predefined property that corresponds to the date of the last modification of a subject and is provided by Semantic MediaWiki.: 15 April 2026 17:52:22)
- Cheryl Burton (Modification date"Modification date" is a predefined property that corresponds to the date of the last modification of a subject and is provided by Semantic MediaWiki.: 15 April 2026 17:51:05)
- 704 (Modification date"Modification date" is a predefined property that corresponds to the date of the last modification of a subject and is provided by Semantic MediaWiki.: 15 April 2026 17:49:39)
- David McKinley Trotter (Modification date"Modification date" is a predefined property that corresponds to the date of the last modification of a subject and is provided by Semantic MediaWiki.: 15 April 2026 17:46:47)
For Researchers
This digital encyclopedia is a Semantic MediaWiki project. Semantic properties are used to add structured, machine-readable data to pages within this project. This allows for enhanced search capabilities, data extraction, and the creation of specialized views based on semantic information.[2]
Contact
This site is administered by the CHHHP team.