Andre Engels wrote:
Has there been contact with IBM about the possibility
to use their
work? For example, I think it would be interesting to create these
diagrams for a large number of Wikipedia pages, and make those
available.
SJ wrote:
| Yes. Two weeks ago, I visited the group that did the history flow
| study, and spent a couple of hours talking to Martin Wattenberg about
| their interest in wikis and some of their ongoing projects.
To continue: they have packaged up a history flow tool that they are
planning to release soon for anyone to use. (Sadly, the code won't
be open source.) That should help people extract statistics from
MediaWiki databases, and generate their own images, like the one Jack
was hoping to get permission to add to WP.
They like the idea of people building useful tools on top of this.
For instance, something which uses their sentence-by-sentence diff
engine to estimate how old each sentence of an article is, or what %
of the article was contributed by each user in its history. I think
it would be fun to work out a way to generate weekly stats with such a
tool; even if it had to be done on an off-site machine from the latest
dump.
--SJ++
PS - Jack, I sent another request about that history image; we'll see
if there's any response.