So I've recently seen items on a 'WikiDashboard', an academic project which provides an 'overlay' onto the English Wikipedia. This overlay is basically a little header at the top that lists the top 10 or whatever contributors, the number of edits each has supplied, and provides a nice little graph depicting the distribution of said edits over time. Here's an example of a article with said header: http://wikidashboard.parc.com/wiki/Neon_Genesis_Evangelion_%28manga%29.
The Augmented Social Cognition Research Group (in the Palo Alto Research Center) has a blog on the tool: http://asc-parc.blogspot.com/, and the tool's homepage itself is at http://wikidashboard.parc.com/.
Random blog post about it: http://chimprawk.blogspot.com/2007/09/truth-in-metadata-wikidashboard.html
I'm not sure how useful it'd be - it seems to mess up on some pages, such as when you arrive at an article via a redirect (ex. http://wikidashboard.parc.com/wiki/Nge_tv) or if pages have been moved around recently (eg, http://wikidashboard.parc.com/wiki/Neon_Genesis_Evangelion - look at the list of contributors, then look at the history tab, and note the discrepancies http://wikidashboard.parc.com/w/index.php?title=Neon_Genesis_Evangelion&action=history).
But it's interesting anyway. Certainly much better than doing the history analysis by hand, definitely.
-- gwern contacts Unix Force SUR Flame analysis bank Gamma CBNRC passwd
Looks like this combines talk page and article space edits to whatever article you are looking at.
-Aude
On 9/14/07, Gwern Branwen gwern0@gmail.com wrote:
So I've recently seen items on a 'WikiDashboard', an academic project which provides an 'overlay' onto the English Wikipedia. This overlay is basically a little header at the top that lists the top 10 or whatever contributors, the number of edits each has supplied, and provides a nice little graph depicting the distribution of said edits over time. Here's an example of a article with said header: http://wikidashboard.parc.com/wiki/Neon_Genesis_Evangelion_%28manga%29.
The Augmented Social Cognition Research Group (in the Palo Alto Research Center) has a blog on the tool: http://asc-parc.blogspot.com/, and the tool's homepage itself is at http://wikidashboard.parc.com/.
Random blog post about it: < http://chimprawk.blogspot.com/2007/09/truth-in-metadata-wikidashboard.html
I'm not sure how useful it'd be - it seems to mess up on some pages, such as when you arrive at an article via a redirect (ex. < http://wikidashboard.parc.com/wiki/Nge_tv%3E) or if pages have been moved around recently (eg, < http://wikidashboard.parc.com/wiki/Neon_Genesis_Evangelion%3E - look at the list of contributors, then look at the history tab, and note the discrepancies < http://wikidashboard.parc.com/w/index.php?title=Neon_Genesis_Evangelion&...
).
But it's interesting anyway. Certainly much better than doing the history analysis by hand, definitely.
-- gwern contacts Unix Force SUR Flame analysis bank Gamma CBNRC passwd
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