In Wikimania Boston, 2006, visualization experts [1] Fernanda Viégas en
Martin Wattenberg presented a tool which could produce a tag cloud from a
person's edit history. Tag clouds were a novelty and very suitable for the
matter at hand. You could see at a glance that editor Johanna Doe was mainly
engaged in articles about say classic music, and Chinese and Iran politics,
which is OK of course, but maybe better left to the person to disclose at
her own discretion. We discussed implications of the visualization: on one
hand this was all data from the public dumps, and anyone could make such a
script once the idea spread, on the other hand would it be wise to help
facilitate this process. I later found out they decided not to publish the
tool for this very reason.
[1] See first two entries on
http://infodisiac.com/Wikimedia/Visualizations/
Erik Zachte
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[mailto:wiki-research-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Fae
Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2011 10:45
To: aforte(a)gatech.edu; Research into Wikimedia content and communities
Subject: Re: [Wiki-research-l] edit counts for specific users
Hi,
Please take care to stay within the policy stated at
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Privacy_policy - if you are researching in
general there is no issue but if you are analysing/data mining a specific
editor's contributions it should be for a recognized bureaucratic purpose.
Cheers,
Fæ
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