I made a quick demo of browsing Wikipedia categories by popularity. The video is here (sorry about the audio quality): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3QXwY-XR28The source code is here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Wakebrdkid/Popular_category_browsing If other people like having an option to sort categories that way then article traffic might be a good property to store on Wikidata.
Nice work! Interesting to see that you made it in Mathematica, of all things!
2013/4/12, Michael Hale hale.michael.jr@live.com:
I made a quick demo of browsing Wikipedia categories by popularity. The video is here (sorry about the audio quality): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3QXwY-XR28The source code is here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Wakebrdkid/Popular_category_browsing If other people like having an option to sort categories that way then article traffic might be a good property to store on Wikidata.
Thank you. Yeah, Mathematica doesn't seem to be very popular. They have a very large, well-designed function library, so you can get things done very quickly, but then very few people will be able to use what you make. I was doing competitive analysis on Adobe and Wolfram Research at Microsoft through Visual Studio 2010. Then they had to restructure the entire division to focus more on keeping legacy customers instead of innovation. My choices were to either improve the consistency of options panels for C# and VB or just start writing code and see where it took me. So, to make a medium-length story short, here I am.
Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2013 00:39:50 +0200 From: jane023@gmail.com To: wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikidata-l] Browsing Wikipedia categories by popularity
Nice work! Interesting to see that you made it in Mathematica, of all things!
2013/4/12, Michael Hale hale.michael.jr@live.com:
I made a quick demo of browsing Wikipedia categories by popularity. The video is here (sorry about the audio quality): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3QXwY-XR28The source code is here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Wakebrdkid/Popular_category_browsing If other people like having an option to sort categories that way then article traffic might be a good property to store on Wikidata.
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On 13.04.2013 01:56, Michael Hale wrote:
Thank you. Yeah, Mathematica doesn't seem to be very popular. They have a very large, well-designed function library, so you can get things done very quickly, but then very few people will be able to use what you make.
To start with, they are too expensive and have crazy policies concerning campus licenses.
Cheers Yaroslav
Oh, I discovered it on Wikipedia, not at school. I got the "Home" edition for $300, which seems to be about standard for other things like commercial graphics software. Although I've been happier with free graphics software like GIMP and Blender more than free programming languages. I'm not trying to sell you Mathematica though. I was just looking for feedback on browsing categories by popularity. It complements the way I already use Wikipedia, but that doesn't mean many other people would be interested in it.
Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2013 15:23:55 +0200 From: putevod@mccme.ru To: wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikidata-l] Browsing Wikipedia categories by popularity
On 13.04.2013 01:56, Michael Hale wrote:
Thank you. Yeah, Mathematica doesn't seem to be very popular. They have a very large, well-designed function library, so you can get things done very quickly, but then very few people will be able to use what you make.
To start with, they are too expensive and have crazy policies concerning campus licenses.
Cheers Yaroslav
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How do you run the source code?
I know this is a silly question, but I have no programming background or perhaps my knowledge is rather elementary.
Cheers,
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Oh, I discovered it on Wikipedia, not at school. I got the "Home" edition for $300, which seems to be about standard for other things like commercial graphics software. Although I've been happier with free graphics software like GIMP and Blender more than free programming languages. I'm not trying to sell you Mathematica though. I was just looking for feedback on browsing categories by popularity. It complements the way I already use Wikipedia, but that doesn't mean many other people would be interested in it.
Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2013 15:23:55 +0200 From: putevod@mccme.ru To: wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikidata-l] Browsing Wikipedia categories by popularity
On 13.04.2013 01:56, Michael Hale wrote:
Thank you. Yeah, Mathematica doesn't seem to be very popular. They have a very large, well-designed function library, so you can get things done very quickly, but then very few people will be able to use what you make.
To start with, they are too expensive and have crazy policies concerning campus licenses.
Cheers Yaroslav
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If you have access to Mathematica then you just copy, paste, and press Shift+Enter. I'll assume you don't though. If this application motivates you to want to learn to program then there is no better time than now to start. I've been programming for most of my life, and I plan to continue doing so for a long time. I just merged some categories for programming languages and the top 10 are currently:C (programming language)JavaScriptD (programming language)PHPJava (programming language)C++Python (programming language)C Sharp (programming language)Visual BasicMUMPS Mathematica was close to 40th. JavaScript and PHP are used heavily in the MediaWiki software, and many other websites. Python will give you a free experience that is closest to Mathematica. After you learn one or two programming languages then you know how to quickly use the documentation for any of them, which is all you really need to know. I'd be happy to guide you through translating the code to Python through one-on-one emails or chats. Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2013 15:24:55 +0800 From: lim_kongsoon@yahoo.com.sg To: wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikidata-l] Browsing Wikipedia categories by popularity
How do you run the source code? I know this is a silly question, but I have no programming background or perhaps my knowledge is rather elementary. Cheers, From: Michael Hale hale.michael.jr@live.com To: Discussion list for the Wikidata project. wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Monday, 15 April 2013, 1:07 Subject: Re: [Wikidata-l] Browsing Wikipedia categories by popularity
Oh, I discovered it on Wikipedia, not at school. I got the "Home" edition for $300, which seems to be about standard for other things like commercial graphics software. Although I've been happier with free graphics software like GIMP and Blender more than free programming languages. I'm not trying to sell you Mathematica though. I was just looking for feedback on browsing categories by popularity. It complements the way I already use Wikipedia, but that doesn't mean many other people would be interested in it.
Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2013 15:23:55 +0200 From: putevod@mccme.ru To: wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikidata-l] Browsing Wikipedia categories by popularity
On 13.04.2013 01:56, Michael Hale wrote:
Thank you. Yeah, Mathematica doesn't seem to be very popular. They have a very large,
well-designed function library, so you can get
things done very quickly, but then very few people will be able to use what you make.
To start with, they are too expensive and have crazy policies concerning campus licenses.
Cheers Yaroslav
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I didn't include the "Declarative programming languages" category, so SQL should actually be #6. I updated the code to present the results as a numbered list.
From: hale.michael.jr@live.com To: wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2013 04:15:07 -0400 Subject: Re: [Wikidata-l] Browsing Wikipedia categories by popularity
If you have access to Mathematica then you just copy, paste, and press Shift+Enter. I'll assume you don't though. If this application motivates you to want to learn to program then there is no better time than now to start. I've been programming for most of my life, and I plan to continue doing so for a long time. I just merged some categories for programming languages and the top 10 are currently:C (programming language)JavaScriptD (programming language)PHPJava (programming language)C++Python (programming language)C Sharp (programming language)Visual BasicMUMPS Mathematica was close to 40th. JavaScript and PHP are used heavily in the MediaWiki software, and many other websites. Python will give you a free experience that is closest to Mathematica. After you learn one or two programming languages then you know how to quickly use the documentation for any of them, which is all you really need to know. I'd be happy to guide you through translating the code to Python through one-on-one emails or chats. Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2013 15:24:55 +0800 From: lim_kongsoon@yahoo.com.sg To: wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikidata-l] Browsing Wikipedia categories by popularity
How do you run the source code? I know this is a silly question, but I have no programming background or perhaps my knowledge is rather elementary. Cheers, From: Michael Hale hale.michael.jr@live.com To: Discussion list for the Wikidata project. wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Monday, 15 April 2013, 1:07 Subject: Re: [Wikidata-l] Browsing Wikipedia categories by popularity
Oh, I discovered it on Wikipedia, not at school. I got the "Home" edition for $300, which seems to be about standard for other things like commercial graphics software. Although I've been happier with free graphics software like GIMP and Blender more than free programming languages. I'm not trying to sell you Mathematica though. I was just looking for feedback on browsing categories by popularity. It complements the way I already use Wikipedia, but that doesn't mean many other people would be interested in it.
Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2013 15:23:55 +0200 From: putevod@mccme.ru To: wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikidata-l] Browsing Wikipedia categories by popularity
On 13.04.2013 01:56, Michael Hale wrote:
Thank you. Yeah, Mathematica doesn't seem to be very popular. They have a very large,
well-designed function library, so you can get
things done very quickly, but then very few people will be able to use what you make.
To start with, they are too expensive and have crazy policies concerning campus licenses.
Cheers Yaroslav
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