thanks, Finn, I think this would be a handy tool.
but that said... I need it to look up 9 users. :) Unless the tool is
already handy, it's probably just as easy in my case to look at the
user contributions in standard 500-edit increments. It just gets
onerous for high-volume editors, but still shouldn't take more than 20
minutes or so I guess...
Andrea
On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 6:27 PM, Finn Aarup Nielsen <fn(a)imm.dtu.dk> wrote:
On Tue, 22 Mar 2011, fox wrote:
Il 22/03/2011 21:47, Andrea Forte ha scritto:
Hi all - I have poked around on toolserver but I don't seem to see a
tool that generates a list/count of user edits for a particular date
range.
Does anyone know if such a tool exists?
It's possibile to do it by using Wikipedia's API like Stuart Geiger
said, but it's quite slow because it returns xml (or other format) that
you have to parse and count edits.
I was confused there for a bit. The API also returns JSON with format=json.
To me the Wikipedia API seems reasonably responsive in Andrea's case (with
edits < 500). Here is a Python script for Geiger's URL:
>> import simplejson, urllib
>> url =
>>
"http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=usercontribs&ucuser=Andicat&uclimit=5000&ucdir=newer&ucstart=2005-06-01T00:00:01Z&ucend=2007-11-30T23:59:59Z&format=json"
>>
len(simplejson.load(urllib.urlopen(url))["query"]["usercontribs"])
Regards
Finn
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