This is just a note that the Dashboard us up and running again - thanks
to all who helped!
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Piotr Konieczny, PhD
http://hanyang.academia.edu/PiotrKonieczny
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On 6/1/2013 9:09 AM, Piotr Konieczny wrote:
Dear all,
I am trying to gather some data for a new paper, but I wonder if there
is a more efficient way of doing so than by using Wikipedia
Special:Contribs
I have a list of editors, whose edits I'd like to analyze and get
numbers on their contributions by mainspace, and to specific groups of
pages (such as Wikipedia:Arbitration and its subpages, for example).
In other words, for a defined group of users, I would like to know if
they have ever contributed to an arbitration page, and if they did,
how many edits did they make.
I am assuming this wouldn't be that difficult for somebody who knows
how to run the queries on the Wikipedia database, but I have never
been able to develop enough of a coding skill to do so. Still, if
people could direct me to a page with instructions on how to run a
database query, perhaps I can try to learn. THat is, if they have been
made more non-CS person friendly, as two or so years ago when I last
research this topic they were, IMHO, still beyond the means of a
non-coder to deal with.
Alternatively, I can consider paying someone to run a number of such
queries for me, since I now even have a real research budget :)