This is just a note that the Dashboard us up and running again - thanks
to all who helped!
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Piotr Konieczny, PhD
http://hanyang.academia.edu/PiotrKonieczny
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On 6/1/2013 9:09 AM, Piotr Konieczny wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I am trying to gather some data for a new paper, but I wonder if there
> is a more efficient way of doing so than by using Wikipedia
> Special:Contribs
> I have a list of editors, whose edits I'd like to analyze and get
> numbers on their contributions by mainspace, and to specific groups of
> pages (such as Wikipedia:Arbitration and its subpages, for example).
> In other words, for a defined group of users, I would like to know if
> they have ever contributed to an arbitration page, and if they did,
> how many edits did they make.
>
> I am assuming this wouldn't be that difficult for somebody who knows
> how to run the queries on the Wikipedia database, but I have never
> been able to develop enough of a coding skill to do so. Still, if
> people could direct me to a page with instructions on how to run a
> database query, perhaps I can try to learn. THat is, if they have been
> made more non-CS person friendly, as two or so years ago when I last
> research this topic they were, IMHO, still beyond the means of a
> non-coder to deal with.
>
> Alternatively, I can consider paying someone to run a number of such
> queries for me, since I now even have a real research budget :)
>