Greetings all,
Please excuse me if my message is inappropriate for this list, but I'm looking for a
place to start and unsure where to begin.
I'm trying to get some sense of the scope of the Template namespace on the
English-language Wikipedia: anything from sheer numbers, to which templates are the most
edited, to which are the most used (either in terms of total number of transclusions/What
Links Here, or else actual number of "hits").
To be a bit more specific, I'm particularly interested in those Templates which are in
the following two categories:
*
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Navbox_(navigational)_templates
*
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Infobox_templates
But both of these categories consist of a large number of subcategories,
sub-sub-categories, sub-sub-sub-...categories, making it difficult to attempt even a basic
count of all the Navbox and Infobox templates. Of course, determining which Navboxes and
Infoboxes are the most edited or the most used would be impossible to ascertain manually.
I haven't written an SQL statement since taking a database course in 1998, so I'm
wary of downloading one of the database dumps and
attempting to manipulate things on my own. Nor am I even certain that the data included
in the dumps would allow me to aggregate across sub-sub-sub...categories, or derive edit
counts or use counts.
Perhaps there's a GUI tool or interface that would be helpful in compiling these
stats? Or perhaps these statistics are readily available and I simply haven't looked
in the right places :)
Again, any advice on this matter would be most appreciated.
Regards,
David