Wikipedia:WikiProject Database analysis

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Welcome to the Database analysis WikiProject, a collaboration area and group of editors dedicated to supporting general maintenance tasks and other WikiProjects that make use of lists generated through analysis of the Wikipedia database (XML) dumps.

(For more information on WikiProjects, please see Wikipedia:WikiProject and the Guide to WikiProjects).

Goals

• Improve collaboration between the various individuals and groups that already perform such analysis and update such lists.

Scope

• Any task or project that involves the creation of lists based on analysis of the Wikipedia database dumps.

Contents 1 Recent analyses 2 Open tasks 3 Participants 4 Related projects 4.1 Maintenance tasks 4.2 WikiProjects 5 Resources 5.1 Templates

[edit] Recent analyses

• English wikipedia dumpfiles from 2008-03-12

[edit] Open tasks

A few suggestions to start us off

• Link to (or create) resources to help folks set up their own local copies of the Wikipedia database for the purposes of offline analysis
• Suggest analysis work that could potentially improve Wikipedia and related projects
• Provide (primarily technical) support for those doing database analysis

[edit] Participants

Please feel free to add yourself here, and to indicate any areas of particular interest.

1. Sapphic (talk · contribs) (updates WP:MWA, WP:DUSTY)
2. Salad Days (talk · contribs)
3. Topbanana (talk · contribs) (of the Red Link Recovery and Interlanguage Links projects)
4. Flatterworld (talk · contribs)
5. Phoenix-wiki (talk · contribs)

[edit] Related projects

[edit] Maintenance tasks

• Wikipedia:Most wanted articles
• Wikipedia:Orphaned Articles
• Wikipedia:Dead-end pages
• Wikipedia:Dusty articles

[edit] WikiProjects

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Disambiguation — in particular, Wikipedia:Disambiguation pages with links.
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Red Link Recovery
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Interlanguage Links

[edit] Resources

[edit] Templates

You can use the {{WikiProject Database analysis}} template on the talk page of a list you update, or the {{DBA}} redirect (alias) for that template. This will place the following message on the talk page:

This article is within the scope of the Database analysis WikiProject, a collaboration area and group of editors dedicated to supporting general maintenance tasks and other WikiProjects that make use of lists generated through analysis of the Wikipedia database (XML) dumps. If you would like to participate, you can visit the project page, where you can join the project and see a list of open tasks.