Hello everyone,
Here are some links relevant to our 6th August discussion, includig some I didn't get the opportunity to talk about but which I personally find useful. It would be great if we could pool together our knowledge of useful wikimedia based projects and tools, and describe them on the WRN wiki. * http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/General_User_Survey - this projects needs just a 'little' support to become active! * Wikidemia: the project dedicated to understanding English Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Wikidemia * Two very useful categories: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_statistics and http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Research * http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Toolserver - the Toolserver contains some useful tools, unfortunately they are rather poorly described. Among the tools that I have learned how to use and can therefore declare as functional and possible to use by not very tech savvy person: ** To analyzie statistical contributions of a single user: ** http://tools.wikimedia.de/~river/cgi-bin/count_edits ** http://tools.wikimedia.de/~interiot/cgi-bin/count_edits ** http://tools.wikimedia.de/~interiot/cgi-bin/contribution_tree ** To get some statistics about an article (from any namespace): ** http://tools.wikimedia.de/~tim/cgi-bin/contribution-counter * YurikBot and Query PHP: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Yurik/Query_API - great tool, almost no description for those not *very* computer savvy, unfortunately. If some of ours members understand how to use it, perhaps they could write a 'how-to' page for the rest of us? * User Script project contains some quite useful scripts, unfortunately again their description leaves much to be desired: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_User_scripts . Out of those I'd like to direct your attention to this statistical script: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Voice_of_All/UsefulJS#History_and_Edit_Sum... This script gives some useful statistics about both a user and a page, and has some interesting features like differentiating between various types of edits (it has some others in addition to minor and normal, including the ability to spot reverts). Unlike most of the above tools, there is a tutorial for how to start using the scripts: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_User_scripts/Tutorial
Ufff. If you know anything else, please let me know, and if you can create new tools or improve the existing ones, there is no better time then now :)