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:

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

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Here's part of that sync.in sheet -- worth looking at the whole thing, at