Hi Haifeng,
Regarding the Toolforge account, I'm sorry to say that account creation is
currently disabled. This is a temporary measure that we hope to be able to
undo soon, but for now there is no exact timeline or public phabricator
tasks I can point you to to follow. However, I've added you to the list of
people to ping when it is available again. Thank you for your patience.
On Wed, Mar 27, 2019 at 8:18 PM Haifeng Zhang <haifeng1(a)andrew.cmu.edu>
wrote:
Thanks a lot for answering my questions, guys.
May I save/upload my own table (with user names and time ranges) to Quarry?
It looks I have to manually enter these information in SQL queries.
Also, I tried to get a Toolforge account. When following the step to
Create a Wikimedia developer account<
https://toolsadmin.wikimedia.org/register/>gt;, the page showed:
"Developer account creation is currently disabled. We apologise for the
inconvenience."
Best,
Haifeng Zhang
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Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2019 12:46:39 PM
To: Research into Wikimedia content and communities
Subject: Re: [Wiki-research-l] Query user history edits
Sample query I just wrote that get the edit count of a single user (by
username) during a period of time on Quarry:
https://quarry.wmflabs.org/query/34716 .
The gotcha that might be important for this query is using the table
`revision_userindex` rather than the play revision table which doesn't have
such an index.
Make a great day,
Max Klein ‽
http://notconfusing.com/
On Wed, 27 Mar 2019 at 09:42, Aaron Halfaker <aaron.halfaker(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
If you share why kind of query you'd like to
run, people on this list
might
even write you an example Quarry :) See also:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Quarry People post query requests
that
and others help them draft the right query for their needs.
On Wed, Mar 27, 2019 at 11:28 AM James Hare <jhare(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
> I will also note that Quarry <https://quarry.wmflabs.org/> is good for
> querying database replicas – no Toolforge account required.
>
>
> --
> *James Hare* (he/him)
> Associate Product Manager
> Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 27, 2019 at 9:30 AM Morten Wang <nettrom(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi Haifeng,
> >
> > In my experience, this depends on how many users you're looking to
get
> > information about. Is it a few hundred?
A few thousand? A million+?
> >
> > If you are getting the edit history for a limited number of users
(say
a
> > few hundred to a few thousand), then using the API can work well. One
> thing
> > to keep in mind when using the API is that your requests might be
> throttled
> > and/or there might be database lag. Are you using a software library
to
access the API? If not, I'd consider using one so
that throttling/lag
doesn't become an issue, it's one of the reasons why I use Pywikibot
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Pywikibot> for API requests.
If you're interested in querying a large number of users (say tens of
thousands or more), then getting an account on Toolforge
<https://tools.wmflabs.org> so you can run SQL queries against the
replicated MediaWiki databases would make sense. I've frequently used
that
> approach for data gathering for research purposes.
>
> Hope that helps! And if not, don't hesitate to ask questions :)
>
>
> Cheers,
> Morten
>
> On Wed, 27 Mar 2019 at 07:22, Haifeng Zhang <haifeng1(a)andrew.cmu.edu
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Dear folks,
> > >
> > > Is there a good way to query a user's edit history, e.g., edit
count
> during a period?
>
> My current solution is using usercontribs API (
>
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Usercontribs).
>
> But, the process has been stalled maybe due to some query limit.
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Haifeng Zhang
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