Hi,
Just something that occurs to me as I write up my dissertation - I
keep on thinking it would be nice to be able to cite some basic
figures to back up a point I am making, eg. how many times Wikipedia
is edited on a given day or how many pages link to this policy page -
as I asked in an email to the wikipedia-l list, which has mysteriously
vanished from the archives (August 11, entitled "What links here?"). I
realise these could be done by going to the recent changes or special
pages and counting them all, but I'm basically too lazy to do that -
we're talking about thousands of pages here, right? I'm also thinking
this is something that many people would be interested in finding out
and writing about. So what I'm asking is that to help researchers
generally, wouldn't it be an idea to identify some quick database
hacks that we could provide - almost like a kate's tools function? Or
are these available on the MediaWiki pages? If they are, and I've
looked at some database related pages, they're certainly not so
understandable from the perspective of someone who just wants to use
basic functions. You might be thinking of sending me to a page like
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Links_table - but *what does it mean?*
Can someone either help me out, or suggest what we could do about this
in the future?
Cheers,
Cormac