On Sunday, September 16, 2012, Béria Lima wrote:

Great job Laura :)

One question only: How do you get those list of page views and editors in all those articles? One by one or you have a tool for it? _____

We have a list of articles (that needs t be checked regularly) and either manually get the data from grok or scrapes Grok for the stats. Most of the data in this packet was generated manually. (It has been subsequently improved because there were a few random bits of inconsisencies.)

I had the opportunity to present some about this at a workshop for using Wikimedia by a dementia research group. At a government sponsored sport conferenced called AUSPIN, which has key influencers in sport departments on the state and federal government in Australia, with a representative from the MCG library, New Zealand sport and Chinese government sport information folks, I got to talk about this and why it matters to sports, sport cultures, wider health issues in our society. :) The stats are really impressive, and it showed how valuable Australian work was compared to say the United Kingdom, which did not have articles in advance for the Paralympics. The Wikipedia articles were also being used by the media in the UK to explain classificaion and find out more about some athletcs. (On Tuesday, we had some one ABC radio in South Australia discussing the project.)

But yeah, long story short: This was manually data mined. :) It can be automated. :)

Sincerely, Laura Hale