Hi Maria!
That's an awesome idea! I'm actually working in a kind of portal
like that, where researchers and hackers will find "easily" stuff
about data, api, and metrics from Wikimedia projects, focused on
Portuguese community, but not only. It's called "Data Portal", and
is a prototype by now.
How can I help you?
Jonas
On 27-02-2013 12:30, Maria Miteva wrote:
Hi everyone,
I am working on creating a single entry page describing all
the data about Wikipedia and WMF projects available for
researchers. The idea is to have a single location, which
introduces all possible source of data and makes it easy for a
newbie to understand what suits his/her needs and how to get and
work with the data. This is meant to be useful to the users (
which is you), so I have a few questions to help me make it
better:
- I was wondering if any of you has used data from sources
other than the listed below and if yes, what? •
XML dumps
•
the API
• the Toolserver (or it's future replacement on WMF
Labs)
•
our live IRC feeds
• our raw hourly pageview data dumps (and the
rudimentary API that you can use to query them at
stats.grok.se)
- Is there any specific information that you wished you had
known when you started using WMF data but is not documented
online?
- Do you have any datasets or tools for
parsing/manipulating/visualizing data, which you think can
be reused and you want to share? (Could be something you
built or something you found and liked)
- What information should be included about each source. I
am thinking about :
- description of the data - content, format , method of
collection or how you can collect it, how often it is
collected, for what period
- skills required to get and work with the data ( PHP,
SQL, etc.)
- short sample
- existing tools - for parsing, importing, etc.
- maybe examples of projects where it was used?
Any other comments/suggestions will be appreciated.
Thank you in advance.
Mariya
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