So I've recently seen items on a 'WikiDashboard', an academic project which
provides an 'overlay' onto the English Wikipedia. This overlay is basically a
little header at the top that lists the top 10 or whatever contributors, the number of
edits each has supplied, and provides a nice little graph depicting the distribution of
said edits over time.
Here's an example of a article with said header:
<http://wikidashboard.parc.com/wiki/Neon_Genesis_Evangelion_%28manga%29>.
The Augmented Social Cognition Research Group (in the Palo Alto Research Center) has a
blog on the tool: <http://asc-parc.blogspot.com/>, and the tool's homepage
itself is at <http://wikidashboard.parc.com/>.
Random blog post about it:
<http://chimprawk.blogspot.com/2007/09/truth-in-metadata-wikidashboard.html>
I'm not sure how useful it'd be - it seems to mess up on some pages, such as when
you arrive at an article via a redirect (ex.
<http://wikidashboard.parc.com/wiki/Nge_tv>) or if pages have been moved around
recently (eg, <http://wikidashboard.parc.com/wiki/Neon_Genesis_Evangelion> - look at
the list of contributors, then look at the history tab, and note the discrepancies
<http://wikidashboard.parc.com/w/index.php?title=Neon_Genesis_Evangelion&action=history>).
But it's interesting anyway. Certainly much better than doing the history analysis by
hand, definitely.
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