-- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation On 05/16/2012 01:00 PM, wiki-research-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org wrote: > Message: 1 > Date: Wed, 16 May 2012 13:09:18 -0400 > From: Piotr Konieczny piokon@post.pl > To: Research into Wikimedia content and communities > wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Subject: Re: [Wiki-research-l] Are there any stats on activity of > editors compared to the population? > Message-ID: 4FB3DF3E.8080708@post.pl > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; Format="flowed" > > Dario, > > Thanks, but the last time I looked into this, running queries required > knowing how to code going way beyond a simple knowledge of wiki syntax > or excel functions. I think it was at WikiSym few years back where we > raised that issue - that much of the data Wikimedia provides is limited > to the small subset of scholars who can code with pretty names like Java > or Pearl and such. I am pretty sure this is the reason for why social > sciences have been lagging in Wikipedia research since day one... > > Now, if I am wrong about any of the above, do let me know. But the last > time I looked at > https://wiki.toolserver.org/view/Database_access#Command-line_access it > didn't look too user friendly (for a non-coder). > > Is there any place where a non-coder can ask a Toolserv coder to run > some of those queries? I'd be happy to trade some of my Wiki skills (as > in, writing a DYK, or reviewing a GA) for such assistance :) > > -- > Piotr Konieczny > > "To be defeated and not submit, is victory; to be victorious and rest on one's laurels, is defeat." --J?zef Pilsudski > > > On 5/10/2012 2:29 PM, Dario Taraborelli wrote: >> Piotr, >> >> if you are interested in getting fresh figures about lifetime edit >> counts I recommend you register an account on the toolserver where you >> can run queries against the user table (which holds cumulative edit >> counts across all namespaces for a specific wiki). For >> namespace-specific counts you will need to use the revision table and >> that's much more time consuming. >> >> On a related note, this real-time dashboard I just uploaded to the >> toolserver (representing account registrations and the fraction of new >> users clicking on the edit button or passing the 1 edit threshold ) >> could be of interest http://toolserver.org/~dartar/reg2/ >> http://toolserver.org/%7Edartar/reg2/ >> >> Best >> Dario