Okay Elias.
The goal for such a tool is this: a group of contributors to Wikipedia from Ghana, wishes to know all articles that have been submitted by Ghanaians, about Ghana or anything Ghana-related over a period of time (for instance, within 5 years ago)
Thus, we hope we can scan through such list to know which article(s) to improve and/or add images to. Contents relating to Ghana are scattered and hard to locate by hand, I think. Using the country sorting way, we hope we can pull all articles submitted from Ghana (perhaps using its IP), created by a Ghanaian (person with Ghana badge on profile), and/or articles categorized under Ghana.
In fact, I was thinking a tool of that sort existed. However, if not, I think the suggestions aforementioned in this thread are good enough to help us retrieve what we're looking for.
Thanks.
On Sunday, August 18, 2013, Elias Friedman wrote:
Rather than give these workarounds, it might be useful to know *why* you want to know this information. That is, what is your end goal? We may be able to suggest a better strategy if we know that.
Sent from my Droid 4 Elias Friedman A.S., CCEMT-P אליהו מתתיהו בן צבי elipongo@gmail.com javascript:; "יְהִי אוֹר" On Aug 18, 2013 9:42 AM, "Andrew Gray" <andrew.gray@dunelm.org.ukjavascript:;> wrote:
Ultimately, the only thing we know about an article's creator is what
that
creator has stated publicly. So for a given country, you *could* do something for "created by self-described users from that country" by
using,
eg,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedians_in_Singapore
and running the names through http://tools.wmflabs.org/xtools/pages/
It'll take some time and get you a list of pages, but it'll have some big problems:
- it'll miss out all the users from Singapore who haven't publicised
where
they're from
- it'll include articles they wrote when outside of Singapore
- it'll include articles by people who say they're in Singapore but
aren't
really
So perhaps not a very useful list, all told...
Andrew.
On 18 August 2013 08:29, Federico Leva (Nemo) <nemowiki@gmail.comjavascript:;>
wrote:
Nkansah Rexford, 17/08/2013 23:24:
Yes. Created by users from that country.
Ok, so no we don't and it's not possible, except for unregistered
users.
We have something for edits, though: <http://stats.wikimedia.org/** wikimedia/squids/**SquidReportPageEditsPerLanguag**eBreakdown.htm<
http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/squids/SquidReportPageEditsPerLanguageB...
It should be good enough if we assume that the proportion of edits
which
are article creations doesn't differ hugely from country to country. There's an ongoing discussion about producing more breakdowns of aggregated data on editors at http://lists.wikimedia.org/** pipermail/analytics/2013-**August/000857.html<
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/analytics/2013-August/000857.html%3E, if you're interested.
Nemo
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