Hi folks!
I've been working on ways to generate useful statistics for the US/Canada Education Program that aren't covered by Wikimetrics, namely: * finding all the articles edited by a group of students * finding how many page views a set of student-edited articles gets over time
I recently set up a project on Tool Labs to make it easier for my team to look up specific data whenever they want. I thought it might be useful for others -- especially anyone else using the Education Program extension to list students and their articles. So today I got it working across languages. The page views tool is very slow, but the articles edited tool is quick.
http://tools.wmflabs.org/coursestats/
-Sage (ragesoss)
Hi Sage, will this functionality be integrated into Wikimetrics eventually?
Pine
On Sat, Jul 19, 2014 at 12:50 PM, Sage Ross ragesoss+wikipedia@gmail.com wrote:
Hi folks!
I've been working on ways to generate useful statistics for the US/Canada Education Program that aren't covered by Wikimetrics, namely:
- finding all the articles edited by a group of students
- finding how many page views a set of student-edited articles gets over
time
I recently set up a project on Tool Labs to make it easier for my team to look up specific data whenever they want. I thought it might be useful for others -- especially anyone else using the Education Program extension to list students and their articles. So today I got it working across languages. The page views tool is very slow, but the articles edited tool is quick.
http://tools.wmflabs.org/coursestats/
-Sage (ragesoss)
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Could the course ID be added to the summary table in each course's page?
Andrew
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Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2014 23:32:46 -0700 From: wiki.pine@gmail.com To: education@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimedia Education] course stats tool
Hi Sage, will this functionality be integrated into Wikimetrics eventually?
Pine
On Sat, Jul 19, 2014 at 12:50 PM, Sage Ross ragesoss+wikipedia@gmail.com wrote:
Hi folks!
I've been working on ways to generate useful statistics for the
US/Canada Education Program that aren't covered by Wikimetrics,
namely:
* finding all the articles edited by a group of students
* finding how many page views a set of student-edited articles gets over time
I recently set up a project on Tool Labs to make it easier for my team
to look up specific data whenever they want. I thought it might be
useful for others -- especially anyone else using the Education
Program extension to list students and their articles. So today I got
it working across languages. The page views tool is very slow, but the
articles edited tool is quick.
http://tools.wmflabs.org/coursestats/
-Sage (ragesoss)
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On Jul 20, 2014 2:32 AM, "Pine W" wiki.pine@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Sage, will this functionality be integrated into Wikimetrics eventually?
I expect so eventually, whether through Wikimetrics or some other WMF Analytics project. Wikimetrics could probably add a 'number of articles edited' metric easily. A fast WMF solution for page views is in the works, but I'm not sure if that will be part of Wikimetrics.
On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 11:02 PM, Andrew Leung andrewcleung@hotmail.com wrote:
Could the course ID be added to the summary table in each course's page?
Currently, you can get the course ID from the Institution page of any course (or from Special:Courses). It wouldn't be that hard to add it to the summary table on the course page itself; I'll keep that in mind for the next time there's work being done on the course page interface.
On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 3:42 AM, Vojtěch Dostál vojtech.dostal@wikimedia.cz wrote:
This sounds like a fantastic tool Sage, thank you! However, I tried the Page view stats and the page seems to time out before the analysis is finished... do you have suggestions how to fix it?
The page views feature relies on stats.grok.se, which is quite slow, usually taking several seconds per request. So the only workaround for this tool is to limit the number of requests, such as by making the data range just one month. Even then, it might not work for a large class. If you're really eager to compile page view data for large numbers of articles, it can be done with a script on your own computer; I had such a script running for about 6 hours to collect page view data for an entire term's worth of articles for US/Canada classes.
But hopefully a faster way of getting page view data isn't too far off.
-Sage