Hi Jerome,

Just a random note of caution, there are also admin actions such as closing RFCs altering userrights and protecting and unprotecting pages. So if you discover that some of your 120 are inactive you might want to check if they are active in those areas - most of us are relatively specialised. Perhaps more importantly the logs won't show how often admins have declined an action, I have declined hundreds of deletion tags, others will have declined hundreds of unblock requests.

Also I suspect that the logs only go back to Dec 2004 - I know that most prior data is missing.

Jonathan


On 15 November 2013 11:27, Jérôme Hergueux <jerome.hergueux@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi all,

FYI: the solution proposed below worked just fine. Thanks Dario! :)

Cheers,

Jérôme.


2013/10/10 Dario Taraborelli <dtaraborelli@wikimedia.org>
Hi Jerôme, 

most of the actions you refer to are not stored as edits by mediawiki. They can be accessed via the logging table [1] (with log_type 'delete' or 'block'), which is replicated on tool labs (you can apply for a tool labs account if you don't have one [2]).

HTH

Dario


On Oct 10, 2013, at 10:02 AM, "Klein,Max" <kleinm@oclc.org> wrote:

Hello Jerome,

I'm not sure this is the best way, but pywikipediabot [1] has a library called pagegenerators.py and there is a function def UserContributionsGenerator(username) (around line 706). That would allow you to iterate through theses user names, and I bet there will be a special marking for deletions/undeletions. If not, worst comes to worse you can use a regular expression for those words.

[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/pywikipediabot

When you use have a pywikibot-hammer everything looks like a pywikibot-nail!    

Maximilian Klein
Wikipedian in Residence, OCLC
+17074787023

From: wiki-research-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org <wiki-research-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org> on behalf of Jérôme Hergueux <jerome.hergueux@gmail.com>
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Subject: [Wiki-research-l] How to collect all the admin-specific edits for a subset of Wp admins
 
Dear all, 

I am starting this thread in the hope that some of the great Wiki researchers on this list could advise me on a data collection problem.

Here is the question: for a each of 120 Wikipedia admins (for whom I have the usernames and unique numeric ids), I would like to reliably count the number of times they (i) deleted a page (ii) undeleted (i.e. restored) a page (iii) protected a page (iv) blocked a user and (v) unblocked a user. 
Those types of edits all correspond to a specific "action" in the Wikipedia API documentation page (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php): action=delete,action=undelete, action=protect, action=block and action=unblock. 

I don't know, however, what would be the best strategy to go about collecting those edits. Does anyone have an idea about which data collection strategy I should adopt in this case? Is there a way to query the Wikipedia API directly, or should I look for some specific markers in the edit summaries? 

I would be very grateful for any advice of feedback! 
Thanks much for your attention and time. :)

Best,

Jérôme.
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