Dear all,
I am starting this thread in the hope that some of the great Wiki
researchers on this list could advise me on a data collection problem.
Here is the question: for a each of 120 Wikipedia admins (for whom I have
the usernames and unique numeric ids), I would like to reliably count the
number of times they (i) deleted a page (ii) undeleted (i.e. restored) a
page (iii) protected a page (iv) blocked a user and (v) unblocked a user.
Those types of edits all correspond to a specific "action" in the Wikipedia
API documentation page (
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php): action=delete,
action=undelete, action=protect, action=block and action=unblock.
I don't know, however, what would be the best strategy to go about
collecting those edits. Does anyone have an idea about which data
collection strategy I should adopt in this case? Is there a way to query
the Wikipedia API directly, or should I look for some specific markers in
the edit summaries?
I would be very grateful for any advice of feedback!
Thanks much for your attention and time. :)
Best,
Jérôme.