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Piotr Konieczny, PhD
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On 6/9/2013 10:30 PM, LB wrote:
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> Hi Piotr,
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> I've prepared the statements and could start running them tonight.
> Right now I'm in the train home...
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> Lukas
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> Piotr Konieczny
piokon@post.pl schrieb:
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> Dear all,
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> 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.
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> 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
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> 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.
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> Alternatively, I can consider paying someone to run a number of such
> queries for me, since I now even have a real research budget :)
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