We had a very useful collective notetaking effort during Felipe's Wikimania session on Mining Wikipedia public data. To have a second copy, I've dumped it the contents into the Talk page for that session: http://wikimania2010.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Submissions/Mining_Wikipedia_pu...
There are several interesting parts -- including a summary of Felipe's recommendations.
I'll paste below just one section -- about tools/best practices -- because I'd really like to see a central place to look up documentation on best practices, tools, and methodologies. It could transclude from or point to the existing documentation.
Would that be useful to anyone else? If so, this list might give a scope of the tech aspects, as a starting place. If it already exists --as an existing single point-of-entry, I'd be delighted to know that instead!
-Jodi ========== Here's part of that sync.in sheet -- worth looking at the whole thing, at http://sync.in/60kOfEwBHA
What tools/best practices can we share/should we know about?
Tools for analytizing particular articles http://toolserver.org/~daniel/WikiSense/Contributors.php - number of contributors http://toolserver.org/~mzmcbride/watcher/ - number of people who are watching a page http://stats.grok.se/en/201007/ - most viewed pages, largest # of editors in a month, viewed page statistics http://en.wikichecker.com/article/ http://wikidashboard.parc.com visualization in place
Bots and code http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Pywikipediabot pywikipediabot - queries the Wikipedia API
Computer resources http://toolserver.org/~daniel/ Talk to Daniel about Toolserver accounts
Tools for dealing with particular dumps http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download - Information on downloading the database
What are these good for? (classify me) http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiXRay quantitative analysis tool (from Felipe Ortega et al) http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Micke/WikiFind search tool for database dumps http://www.cs.technion.ac.il/~gabr/resources/code/wikiprep/ - preprocessor for XML dumps, "eliminates some information and adds other useful information" http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Alternative_parsers - List of parsers http://static.wikipedia.org/ - Static HTML dumps