For those of you who haven't seen it, take a look at Domas' Mituzas wiki-stats:
http://dammit.lt/wikistats/
This is real, accurate hourly snapshot data on the access to Wikipedia
captured from the Wikimedia Squid servers. Project counts show the
total access in a time period to the different language editions.
This is great stuff for visualization, behavioral pattern analysis,
and other purposes. If you do something with it, let us know. :-)
URL may change in the future - we'll put a redirect on the above one
if that happens.
--
Erik Möller
Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation
Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate
As some of you might remember, we have been working on author
reputation and text trust systems for wikis; some of you may have seen
our demo at WikiMania 2007, or the on-line demo
http://wiki-trust.cse.ucsc.edu/
Since then, we have been busy at work to build a system that can be
deployed on any wiki, and display the text trust information.
And we finally made it!
We are pleased to announce the release of WikiTrust version 2!
With it, you can compute author reputation and text trust of your
wikis in real-time, as edits to the wiki are made, and you can display
text trust via a new "trust" tab.
The tool can be installed as a MediaWiki extension, and is released
open-source, under the BSD license; the project page is
http://trust.cse.ucsc.edu/WikiTrust
WikiTrust can be deployed both on new, and on existing, wikis.
WikiTrust stores author reputation and text trust in additional
database tables. If deployed on an existing wiki, WikiTrust first
computes the reputation and trust information for the current wiki
content, and then processes new edits as they are made. The
computation is scalable, parallel, and fault-tolerant, in the sense
that WikiTrust adaptively fills in missing trust or reputation
information.
On my MacBook, running under Ubuntu in vmware, WikiTrust can analize
some 10-20 revisions / second of a wiki; so with a little patience,
unless your wiki is truly huge, you can just deploy it and wait a
bit.
Go to http://trust.cse.ucsc.edu/WikiTrust for more information and for
the code!
Feedback, comments, etc are much appreciated!
Luca de Alfaro
(with Ian Pye and Bo Adler)
As some of you might remember, we have been working on author
reputation and text trust systems for wikis; some of you may have seen
our demo at WikiMania 2007, or the on-line demo
http://wiki-trust.cse.ucsc.edu/
Since then, we have been busy at work to build a system that can be
deployed on any wiki, and display the text trust information.
And we finally made it!
We are pleased to announce the release of WikiTrust version 2!
With it, you can compute author reputation and text trust of your
wikis in real-time, as edits to the wiki are made, and you can display
text trust via a new "trust" tab.
The tool can be installed as a MediaWiki extension, and is released
open-source, under the BSD license; the project page is
http://trust.cse.ucsc.edu/WikiTrust
WikiTrust can be deployed both on new, and on existing, wikis.
WikiTrust stores author reputation and text trust in additional
database tables. If deployed on an existing wiki, WikiTrust first
computes the reputation and trust information for the current wiki
content, and then processes new edits as they are made. The
computation is scalable, parallel, and fault-tolerant, in the sense
that WikiTrust adaptively fills in missing trust or reputation
information.
On my MacBook, running under Ubuntu in vmware, WikiTrust can analize
some 10-20 revisions / second of a wiki; so with a little patience,
unless your wiki is truly huge, you can just deploy it and wait a
bit.
Go to http://trust.cse.ucsc.edu/WikiTrust for more information and for
the code!
Feedback, comments, etc are much appreciated!
Luca de Alfaro
Ian Pye
Bo Adler
All,
I've come across this great little podcast episode from Vanderbilt
university in the US.
It is a presentation by Michael Bess, history professor, about how he
uses wikipedia in his classes to analyse the archive of talkpages for
contentious articles (he uses the example of [[talk:Debate over the
atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki]] ) to get his students to
understand what methodological/epistemological issues arise in
historianship.
What he says is probably not news to us, but it is nice to be hearing
that wikipedia is being put to this kind of usage by such an eminent
academic.
http://blogs.vanderbilt.edu/cftpodcast/?p=4
p.s. sorry if this is 'old news', I just found out by a link that was
put in the comments to the interview I did for "Digital Campus" from
wikimania
http://digitalcampus.tv/2008/07/21/episode-30-live-from-egypt/
Best,
-Liam
www.wikipediaweekly.com
Skype - Wittylama
Wikipedia - [[User:Witty lama]]