From Wikipedia to the classroom: exploring online publication and learning
ICLS '06 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Learning sciences
Temporal Analysis of the Wikigraph
WI '06 Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence
Creating, destroying, and restoring value in wikipedia
Proceedings of the 2007 international ACM conference on Supporting group work
Harnessing the wisdom of crowds in wikipedia: quality through coordination
Proceedings of the 2008 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work
A Conceptual and Operational Definition of 'Social Role' in Online Community
HICSS '09 Proceedings of the 42nd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
Is Wikipedia link structure different?
Proceedings of the Second ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining
Network analysis of collaboration structure in Wikipedia
Proceedings of the 18th international conference on World wide web
Analyzing (social media) networks with NodeXL
Proceedings of the fourth international conference on Communities and technologies
Bipartite networks of Wikipedia's articles and authors: a meso-level approach
Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration
Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Signed networks in social media
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Wikis at work: success factors and challenges for sustainability of enterprise Wikis
Proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration
Analyzing Social Media Networks with NodeXL: Insights from a Connected World
Analyzing Social Media Networks with NodeXL: Insights from a Connected World
Finding social roles in Wikipedia
Proceedings of the 2011 iConference
Co-authorship 2.0: patterns of collaboration in Wikipedia
Proceedings of the 22nd ACM conference on Hypertext and hypermedia
Technology-mediated contributions: editing behaviors among new wikipedians
Proceedings of the ACM 2012 conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work
Proceedings of the ACM 2012 conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work
Omnipedia: bridging the wikipedia language gap
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Staying in the loop: structure and dynamics of Wikipedia's breaking news collaborations
Proceedings of the Eighth Annual International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration
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The MediaWiki platform supports popular socio-technical systems such as Wikipedia as well as thousands of other wikis. This software encodes and records a variety of relationships about the content, history, and editors of its articles such as hyperlinks between articles, discussions among editors, and editing histories. These relationships can be analyzed using standard techniques from social network analysis, however, extracting relational data from Wikipedia has traditionally required specialized knowledge of its API, information retrieval, network analysis, and data visualization that has inhibited scholarly analysis. We present a software library called the NodeXL MediaWiki Importer that extracts a variety of relationships from the MediaWiki API and integrates with the popular NodeXL network analysis and visualization software. This library allows users to query and extract a variety of multidimensional relationships from any MediaWiki installation with a publicly-accessible API. We present a case study examining the similarities and differences between different relationships for the Wikipedia articles about "Pope Francis" and "Social media." We conclude by discussing the implications this library has for both theoretical and methodological research as well as community management and outline future work to expand the capabilities of the library.