Hi Piotr,
Can you give me the list of usernames, the wikipedia(s) and the
timeframe you are interested in?
best regards,
Lukas
Am Sa 01.06.2013 09:09, schrieb Piotr Konieczny:
Dear all,
I am trying to gather some data for a new paper, but I wonder if there
is a more efficient way of doing so than by using Wikipedia
Special:Contribs
I have a list of editors, whose edits I'd like to analyze and get
numbers on their contributions by mainspace, and to specific groups of
pages (such as Wikipedia:Arbitration and its subpages, for example).
In other words, for a defined group of users, I would like to know if
they have ever contributed to an arbitration page, and if they did,
how many edits did they make.
I am assuming this wouldn't be that difficult for somebody who knows
how to run the queries on the Wikipedia database, but I have never
been able to develop enough of a coding skill to do so. Still, if
people could direct me to a page with instructions on how to run a
database query, perhaps I can try to learn. THat is, if they have been
made more non-CS person friendly, as two or so years ago when I last
research this topic they were, IMHO, still beyond the means of a
non-coder to deal with.
Alternatively, I can consider paying someone to run a number of such
queries for me, since I now even have a real research budget :)