Erik Zachte wrote:
In the category 'nice to know':
I made a script to measure who is most involved in public mailing lists discussions, and on which lists.
You'll find a complete list of mailing lists and how their activy changed over time http://www.infodisiac.com/Wikipedia/ScanMail/
For each list you'll find a breakdown of posts by author, with board activity added separately, e.g. for the foundation list http://www.infodisiac.com/Wikipedia/ScanMail/foundation-l.html
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Eric,
There may be a minor error in one of your loops or pattern matching comparisons, or the explanation above is slightly off.
The appears enwiki-l stats appear to shut off at five posts. Perhaps the graphics is truncated for ease of use and the totals are accurate?
There was a single post by me to enwiki-l.
http://mail.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/2002-November/000003.html
The header was:
*Michael R. Irwin* mri_icboise at surfbest.net mailto:wikien-l%40Wikipedia.org?Subject=%5BWikien-l%5D%20Getting%20started&In-Reply-To= /Fri Nov 15 03:32:18 UTC 2002
/The other two places I expected to see data on my activity it was there under Michael R. Irwin. Some of it originated from the above email address and some from my current address so I have concluded your processing routines were focused on the name Michael R. Irwin which is what is shown in the y-axis of the summary stats.
It seemed to accurately pick up posts signed as both mirwin and as my later handle lazyquasar but they were all annotated as from Michael R. Irwin in the header so that was not surprising.
Forgive my pickiness but these stats look incredibly useful for some kinds project management activities such as proposal preparation or analsysis of participation trends but it is easy to draw wrong conclusions if the basis for the data presented and being used is misunderstood.
Obviously any subtle error off by one on my data may be way off for someone else.
Any further explanation to clarify exactly what is counted and how it is summarized if the data is not exactly accurate in the counts of all the emails in the archives would be appreciated by me.
Thanks!
regards, Michael R. Irwin lazyquasar