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Hello -- no content here yet; just using this as a personal sandbox.
Loads of links from Piotr on research tools:
Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2006 17:39:15 -0400
From: Piotr Konieczny <piokon@post.pl>
To: Research into Wikimedia content and communities <wiki-research-l@Wikimedia.org>
Subject: [Wiki-research-l] General User Survey and useful tools
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Hello everyone,
Here are some links relevant to our 6th August discussion, includig some
I didn't get the opportunity to talk about but which I personally find
useful. It would be great if we could pool together our knowledge of
useful wikimedia based projects and tools, and describe them on the WRN
wiki.
* http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/General_User_Survey - this projects
needs just a 'little' support to become active!
* Wikidemia: the project dedicated to understanding English Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Wikidemia
* Two very useful categories:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_statistics and
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Research
* http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Toolserver - the Toolserver contains
some useful tools, unfortunately they are rather poorly described. Among
the tools that I have learned how to use and can therefore declare as
functional and possible to use by not very tech savvy person:
** To analyzie statistical contributions of a single user:
** http://tools.wikimedia.de/~river/cgi-bin/count_edits
** http://tools.wikimedia.de/~interiot/cgi-bin/count_edits
** http://tools.wikimedia.de/~interiot/cgi-bin/contribution_tree
** To get some statistics about an article (from any namespace):
** http://tools.wikimedia.de/~tim/cgi-bin/contribution-counter
* YurikBot and Query PHP:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Yurik/Query_API - great tool, almost
no description for those not *very* computer savvy, unfortunately. If
some of ours members understand how to use it, perhaps they could write
a 'how-to' page for the rest of us?
* User Script project contains some quite useful scripts, unfortunately
again their description leaves much to be desired:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_User_scripts . Out of
those I'd like to direct your attention to this statistical script:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Voice_of_All/UsefulJS#History_and_Edit_Summary_Use_Analysis_.28Requires_Addtab.29
This script gives some useful statistics about both a user and a page,
and has some interesting features like differentiating between various
types of edits (it has some others in addition to minor and normal,
including the ability to spot reverts). Unlike most of the above tools,
there is a tutorial for how to start using the scripts:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_User_scripts/Tutorial
Ufff. If you know anything else, please let me know, and if you can
create new tools or improve the existing ones, there is no better time
then now :)
--
Piotr Konieczny
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Piotrus
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