On Nov 21, 2007 9:16 PM, E <e.wikipedia(a)gmail.com> wrote: Taking the opportunity of making it a real project, I think an edit counter should not be a stand alone. It would be cool to have a detailed analysis toolbox, varying from edit count, edit summary usage, uploads and more. So... Who is going to program it. What language? If there is going to be an analysis toolkit, there are some more and less important points: * (Global) opt-in. * Easily translatable * Uniform skin * A lot of maintainers So far my brainstorm. Bryan

Bryan Tong Minh wrote: most of those things are actually what people consider to be part of an edit counter nowadays anyway. (although i don't think edit summary could be done easily - there's no suitable index.) - river.

I'm happy to do it in PHP, and should be able to implement the various features here. I'd use simple URL-hash based filesystem caching (unless memcache is an option? -- the scale of the edit counter might justify this). A RESTful API would be the simplest option, with data output in XML and possibly JSON/serialized PHP. We could have a couple of settings, e.g. "Quick Count" (no namespaces or other statistics", "Summary" (namespaces) and "Detailed" (count, namespaces, timeline, use of edit summaries etc.). Presuming it's going to be widely used, we might as well plan it here -- anybody else have structural suggestions for the tool? On Nov 22, 2007 6:16 AM, E <e.wikipedia(a)gmail.com> wrote:

Yay, language war! j/k If you'd prefer Python, that's fine, although I must admit I have no familiarity at all with Python so we'd probably have to adapt your existing code. I chose PHP for a number of reasons, including: * I'm very familiar with it, and so are quite a few other people * There's a lot of code available for it to make complex tasks like RESTful web services really easy * It can be optimised to handle massive loads, even with the overhead * It's got a lot of data processing features inbuilt * There's already an edit counter in PHP ;) (mine) On Nov 22, 2007 7:41 AM, River Tarnell <river(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: