Hi,
Realising I am late to this exchange, but I just wanted to share that I used this tool 2 years ago: I (as a volunteer of WMNL)
printed the Wikipedia article about the Dutch city of Hengelo through PediaPress, to celebrate the
anniversary
of collaboration with the library in the town. They had been organising monthly Wiki-gatherings for
5 years and did a lot of work on describing their districts' local heritage: this was how we thanked them for their work.
The book itself was not fabulous (because there were very few corrections I could make to the not-so-perfect visual presentation), but what is a greater gift to a GLAM, or an individual volunteer, than to see the outcome of their years-long work in print?
Just an idea on how this can (also) be used again in the future, if there is a way to fix or re-design the extension.
1000 per month! Interesting. Do we have readership / download data for those created?
On 17/4/22 17:40:35, Strainu wrote:
>
>
> Pe duminică, 17 aprilie 2022, Tito Dutta <trulytito@gmail.com
> <mailto:trulytito@gmail.com>> a scris:
> > Hello,
> > This was a very useful tool for the readers. I used it a lot when it
> was working.
> > User namespace books page category shows 50,000 subpages:
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:User_namespace_book_pages
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:User_namespace_book_pages>
> > (Please see language sidebar for other languages)
>
> You could probably go though all the pages in all the equivalent
> categories and have a histogram of usage based on page creation time.
This sounded interesting, so I made the histogram, just for enwiki, here
it is:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Book_collection_enwiki_histogram.pdf
The count is pages created per month.
Key dates:
- February 2009 - initial peak, tool enabled?
- May 2013 - rapid increase, it became more visible?
- October 2014 - peak usage (1145/month)
- End of 2017 - rapid decrease, reduced visibility?
- January 2020 - drop to close to zero, tool disabled?
Thanks,
Mike
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