[Wikimedia-l] Thanking anonymous users

[Oliver Keyes]

Yes, but what you'd then have to do is either go through the database dumps
or hit the API and check individual diffs. Database-stored information on
templates is "where are those templates linked from", not "and when were
those links added" (unless something has changed relatively recently)


On 14 January 2014 10:49, Philippe Beaudette <philippe at wikimedia.org> wrote:

> Barnstars mostly use a set of templates, right?  (At least, the 80% case).
>  We could ballpark it fairly effectively by checking for that set, no?
>
> pb
>
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> On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 10:05 AM, Oliver Keyes <okeyes at wikimedia.org>
> wrote:
>
> > On 13 January 2014 20:32, Philippe Beaudette <pbeaudette at wikimedia.org
> > >wrote:
> >
> > > > On Jan 13, 2014, at 4:18 PM, Oliver Keyes <okeyes at wikimedia.org>
> > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > we're getting almost 3,000 thanks
> > > > actions a day, every day
> > >
> > > It would be interesting to know if that impacted the number of
> > > barnstars....
> > >
> > >
> > That would be difficult to track, but we can totally find out if there's
> > been any change in, say, wikilove.
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Oliver Keyes
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Wikimedia Foundation