Community Data Science Workshops (Spring 2014)/May 3rd Wikipedia project Windows setup

Download the WikipediaAPI project

1. Right click the following file, click "Save Target as..." or "Save link as...", and save it to your Desktop directory: http://mako.cc/teaching/2014/cdsw/WikipediaAPI.zip
2. The ".zip" extension on the above file indicates that it is a compressed Zip archive. We need to "extract" its contents. To do this, click on "Start", then "Computer", and navigate to your Desktop directory. Find WikipediaAPI.zip on your Desktop and double-click on it to "unzip" it. That will create a folder called WikipediaAPI containing several files.

Test the WikipediaAPI code

Start a command prompt and navigate to the Desktop\WikipediaAPI directory where the WikipediaAPI code lives. For example, if the WikipediaAPI project is at C:\Users\YOURUSERNAME\Desktop\WikipediaAPI,

cd C:\Users\YOURUSERNAME\Desktop\WikipediaAPI

will change you into that directory, and

dir

will show you the source code files in that directory. One of the files is "wikipedia1.py", which has a ".py" extension indicating that it is a Python script. Type:

python wikipedia-mwc1.py

at the command prompt to execute the run.py Python script. Wait a little while while your computer connects to Wikipedia. You should see a series of data from Wikipedia run by on your screen. If you don't, let a staff member know.

Success!

You are done downloading the WikipediaAPI project!