Re: [Wiki-research-l] non-techie in need of guidance - Template namespace

Greetings all, Please excuse me if my message is inappropriate for this list, but I'm looking for a place to start and unsure where to begin. I'm trying to get some sense of the scope of the Template namespace on the English-language Wikipedia: anything from sheer numbers, to which templates are the most edited, to which are the most used (either in terms of total number of transclusions/What Links Here, or else actual number of "hits"). To be a bit more specific, I'm particularly interested in those Templates which are in the following two categories: * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Navbox_(navigational)_templates * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Infobox_templates But both of these categories consist of a large number of subcategories, sub-sub-categories, sub-sub-sub-...categories, making it difficult to attempt even a basic count of all the Navbox and Infobox templates. Of course, determining which Navboxes and Infoboxes are the most edited or the most used would be impossible to ascertain manually. I haven't written an SQL statement since taking a database course in 1998, so I'm wary of downloading one of the database dumps and attempting to manipulate things on my own. Nor am I even certain that the data included in the dumps would allow me to aggregate across sub-sub-sub...categories, or derive edit counts or use counts. Perhaps there's a GUI tool or interface that would be helpful in compiling these stats? Or perhaps these statistics are readily available and I simply haven't looked in the right places :) Again, any advice on this matter would be most appreciated. Regards, David _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l