and Freenode IRC
channel at #mediawiki) might be useful places for you to ask for help or
suggest trades. Best of luck.
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Sumana Harihareswara
Engineering Community Manager
Wikimedia Foundation
On 05/16/2012 01:00 PM, wiki-research-l-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org wrote:
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Date: Wed, 16 May 2012 13:09:18 -0400
From: Piotr Konieczny <piokon(a)post.pl>
To: Research into Wikimedia content and communities
<wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Subject: Re: [Wiki-research-l] Are there any stats on activity of
editors compared to the population?
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Dario,
Thanks, but the last time I looked into this, running queries required
knowing how to code going way beyond a simple knowledge of wiki syntax
or excel functions. I think it was at WikiSym few years back where we
raised that issue - that much of the data Wikimedia provides is limited
to the small subset of scholars who can code with pretty names like Java
or Pearl and such. I am pretty sure this is the reason for why social
sciences have been lagging in Wikipedia research since day one...
Now, if I am wrong about any of the above, do let me know. But the last
time I looked at
https://wiki.toolserver.org/view/Database_access#Command-line_access it
didn't look too user friendly (for a non-coder).
Is there any place where a non-coder can ask a Toolserv coder to run
some of those queries? I'd be happy to trade some of my Wiki skills (as
in, writing a DYK, or reviewing a GA) for such assistance :)
--
Piotr Konieczny
"To be defeated and not submit, is victory; to be victorious and rest on one's
laurels, is defeat." --J?zef Pilsudski
On 5/10/2012 2:29 PM, Dario Taraborelli wrote:
> Piotr,
>
> if you are interested in getting fresh figures about lifetime edit
> counts I recommend you register an account on the toolserver where you
> can run queries against the user table (which holds cumulative edit
> counts across all namespaces for a specific wiki). For
> namespace-specific counts you will need to use the revision table and
> that's much more time consuming.
>
> On a related note, this real-time dashboard I just uploaded to the
> toolserver (representing account registrations and the fraction of new
> users clicking on the edit button or passing the 1 edit threshold )
> could be of interest
http://toolserver.org/~dartar/reg2/
> <http://toolserver.org/%7Edartar/reg2/>
>
> Best
> Dario