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    Vu Nguyen replied on May 08, 2008 23:39 to the question "Analyzing Tags for Research Purposes" in PBwiki:

    Vu Nguyen
    Basically, the entirety of the dataset of tags for a given wiki can be accessed at [the wiki address]/tags.php . For that wiki, it would be:

    http://wyrd2thewiki.pbwiki.com/tags.php

    The table is organized by tags, beside which are the pages that use those tags. A talented programmer could strip that out of the HTML for that page (alternately, he could use the API), but we don't have a SUPER easy way to download the entire set.

    Still, what you're planning on doing sounds really cool.
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    djsaab asked a question in PBwiki on May 08, 2008 23:33:

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    Analyzing Tags for Research Purposes
    How have you structured the tagging functionality? What kinds of analysis can be done on the collective set of tags for a pbwiki?

    I am interested in accessing the large number of tags that have been created on a wiki for a university composition course in order to do some analysis, including clustering and looking for emergent semantics. I wanted to know how pbwiki manages the tags in its underlying database, whether I could download the tags for analysis using another app, in what formats I could download them, what associated information (i.e., users and pages) I could download with them, and so on.

    The wiki I'm interested in analyzing is wyrd2thewiki.pbwiki.com.

    Thanks for any help or insights you can provide.