User talk:Interiot/Tool

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Is it possible that your tool can be made to work in other language wikipedias? /Skagedal 08:19, 6 December 2005 (UTC)

  • It tries its best to work in other languages, but it's not Kate's, so it has problems sometimes. :) What language is it having problems with? --Interiot 15:17, 6 December 2005 (UTC)
Ah, ok! :) I was having problem with Swedish Wikipedia, see here - it just says "earliest". That would be really cool if you could fix that. /Skagedal 18:15, 6 December 2005 (UTC)
Okay, sv.wikipedia.org, fr.wikipedia.org, and fi.wikipedia.org should be working somewhat. --Interiot 06:19, 7 December 2005 (UTC)
Excellent, thanks! /Skagedal 10:35, 7 December 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for this, it's good :-) Dan100 (Talk) 19:36, 7 December 2005 (UTC)

I like the graphs! εγκυκλοπαίδεια* (talk) 17:07, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

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[edit] Suggestion re: project namespaces

When looking at my edit count using your tool, I noticed that it says that I have more edits to Wikipedia:BJAODN:The Next Page Title than to any other page in the WP: namespace. While this is true of specific subpages, it probably wouldn't help RfA voters who are trying to determine the general areas of WP: with which a candidate is involved, specifically areas in which admins frequently participate, such as the AfD and CfD pages (TfD and RfD are all on one page and don't appear to be using subpages). Most of my WP: edits, for example, have been to AfD and RfA on the whole. So maybe your counter could list "Wikipedia:Articles for deletion and subpages", or "Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/*". Do you think you can make that modification, or is there a specific reason why you just go by individual subpages?

Your edit counter is a wonderful tool, by the way. Thanks for taking the time to make it; I still prefer to use it rather than Kate's, due to its additional features. --Idont Havaname 05:14, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

  • I was thinking about something like that, but there's two complications that have kept me from commiting to a feature like that. 1) it's hard/impossible to get working on other languages / other mediawikis, and 2) as far as I can tell, many people in RFA simply restrict the Special:Contributions to the Wikipedia: namespace and then judge it by eye from there. [1]. But yeah, I do think something like that might be useful. Thanks for the kind comments. --Interiot 05:30, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Feature request: Starting date

I was thinking it would be really helpful if your tool could specify a starting date. This would be quite helpful I think in RfAs when it's a re-nomination, so we could focus on the candidate's activities since the first nomination, for example. What do you think, and how feasible is that? howcheng [ t • c • w • e ] 22:44, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

  • Yeah, I like that idea, it combines nicely with some of the other features as well. Looks like I'll have to code all this stuff up over christmas break. --Interiot 23:22, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] What happened?

I rather liked this, why was it canned? Too much load? Dan100 (Talk) 15:06, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

  • Users aren't supposed to extensively screen-scrape, and my original tool was blocked for that reason. It's just as well: fortunately yesterday I was given permission to implement this on the toolserver, so the analysis should be available again (in a few days hopefully). --Interiot 15:47, 29 December 2005 (UTC)
    • That is good news!
    • P.MacUidhir (t) (c) 02:36, 1 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Other minor quibbles

I felt it best to comment here rather than WT:RFA. The tool shows top 1500 articles in each namespace by no. of edits. If it exceeds 1500, would it be possible to eliminate redirect, disambig, revert, minor edits in that order? I understand that veryfew admin aspirants may have more than 1500 edits in one namespace, so it may not be worth the bother. great work so far, though. --Gurubrahma 06:39, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

Unfortunately that's something that's currently beyond my techinical capability. Some of it may be possible, but it depends on how much data I can glean from database columns that have indexes on them. I'm inherently limited by the DB indexes though. An alternative would be to do the (next 50) links like the Special: pages do, though I'd really rather someone make it an actual Special: page instead. Eventually, I'll also write a separate tool that's very slow / cached / non-realtime, but can include all sorts of this kind of data. Thanks for the comments. --Interiot 06:50, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Nice tool... just cant get it to work

Is it down, or is it just me? I've been trying to get yourcode working for me, but somehow it doesnt work. It does bring up an input box, but doesnt actually do anuthing. I get a JS error, maybe its that. I'm using IE on WinXP. Also, it'd be great if you could find the time to write a small and easy how-to for the tool. Although i'm hardly computer-illiterate, i'm having a damned hard time wading through all the different pages and lingo. And, lastly, before i forget to mention it (in between all of my quibbling :-) ): this is one sweet tool! Thanks for the great work! The Minister of War (Peace) 14:55, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

Tool#2 isn't being maintained for the time being, since I'm spending most of my time on the toolserver, doing other queries to help out the encyclopedia. I intend to eventually work on it to get it to work on other wikis that can't use the toolserver (eg. ko.wikipedia.org, and non-WikiMedia servers), but I haven't gotten around to it yet. What server are you trying to run it on? I know it's not working on ko.wikipedia.org yet, for instance. --Interiot 15:25, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
Ah yes. Actually, i thought this was a more scripted version of the Contribution tree. I am using it on EN, so its probably a JS error. What i was in fact looking for is a way to incorporate the Contribution tree into my monobook.js for easy searching. Like the WP:POPups have the Kate tool incorporated. Is this possible? The Minister of War (Peace) 15:52, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
I'm sure it's possible... various people have incorporated my counter into it instead (eg. see User:Haza-w/Interiot code). You might want to ask at User talk:Lupin or Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts, since they're responsible for the scripts. I don't use the popups myself, as my work machine has far too little RAM available, and Lupin's popups seem to eat RAM. Sorry I can't help more. (actually, I have a couple questions for Lupin anyway, so we can resume this over there if you want) --Interiot 16:47, 24 January 2006 (UTC)