On 11/12/2013 11:38 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote:
Alvaro del Castillo, 12/11/2013 19:13:
Some weirdnesses I noted:
- Total edit counts don't match, compare e.g. Krinkle, Kgh, Jack,
Jeroen: http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikispecial/EN/TablesWikipediaMEDIAWIKI.htm#wikip... . This probably means that you are considering the wrong namespaces; please use content namespaces.
Ok! taking a look to namespaces. It is easy to filter them using the API. The key is to understand which are content namespaces. Some recommendation?
See the definition: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Content_namespace
Maybe the only namespace that would be worth filtering is User / User_talk. All the rest are equally worth in wikis of software projects (the natural scope of Metrics Grimoire and the precise example of mediawiki.org).