==Watch a category of articles==
2010 is election year in Sweden, so I want to keep an eye on all
articles in category:Swedish politicians, in recursive levels.
I now do this on a weekly basis, using CatScan,
http://toolserver.org/~daniel/WikiSense/CategoryIntersect.php
I set wiki = sv.wikipedia.org
search in category = svenska politiker
with depth = 7
for changes in last 168 hours (= 7 x 24 = one week)
save as CSV format
I then filter the output using the UNIX command line
awk '$1==0 {print $2}'|sort|uniq -c|sort -nr
to get a listing of which articles got the most edits.
It would be nice to intersect this search with category:Living
people, so dead politicians are filtered out.
Are there already any smarter tools to do this?
==Watch a local community==
For a local history project, I want to involve users close to me.
These are found in category:Users in (my home town). From that
category I can view "related changes", but that only covers
changes to their user pages. I want to see contributions made by
this group of users. Are there any tools for this?
If contributions to sv.wikipedia and Wikimedia commons could be
combined in one list, that would be all the better.
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Lars Aronsson (lars(a)aronsson.se)
Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se
Hi, I'm trying to get the content of an article through API ( PHP code ) .
I logged through POST request, but when I tried to do the query action I saw the following message :
"unknown_action: Unrecognised value for parameter 'action'"
I don't kinow if I am doing anything wrong.
This is my code :
<?php
$url = "http://localhost/wiki/api.php";
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,$url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
$data = array('action' => 'login', 'lgname' => 'myuser', 'lgpassword' => 'mypassword');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS,$data);
$result= curl_exec ($ch);
curl_close ($ch);
$url = "http://localhost/wiki/api.php";
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,$url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
$data = array('action' => 'query', 'prop' => 'revisions', 'meta' => 'siteinfo' , 'titles' => 'Main Page' , 'rvprop' => 'user|comment|content';
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS,$data);
$result= curl_exec ($ch);
curl_close ($ch);
print $result;
?>
anybody knows what I am doing wrong ?
Thanks in advance.
Javier Bueno.
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Date una vuelta por Sietes y conoce el pueblo de los expertos en Windows 7
http://www.sietesunpueblodeexpertos.com/
I was contacted by someone working (for) (at) Webzzle, who want to meet
me (for unknown reasons as of today).
I googled Webzzle to better identify who the guy is and what he is
likely to talk to me about. And what I found let me quite dubious.
Please have a look here: http://www.webzzle.com/explorer/home.kol
There is a presentation of the concept here:
http://www.webzzle.com/intl/en/help.html
I kind of now suspect what the meeting will be about and I think I'll
settle down for a phone meeting rather than an expensive and time
consuming face to face meeting in Paris :)
But I'd like to have your opinion about this website and the use it
makes of Wikipedia.
I am asking here in particular because there are obvious technical
implications. But I am sure some of you could reflect on the less
technical implications ;)
thanks
ant
As many of you know, Wikimedia has embarked on an ambitious strategic
planning process. The goal is to come up with a five-year strategic
plan for the Wikimedia movement.
Obviously, tech plays a critical role in all of this. We're in the
process of taking a deeper dive into tech-related issues, and as part
of that, we want to hold regular, logged discussions on IRC. Our first
session will be on Monday, November 2 at 21:00 UTC (8am EDT; 1pm PST;
10pm CET). We'll be talking on #wikimedia-strategy on freenode.
Hope that many of you will be there. I'd also encourage you to
participate on the wiki at:
http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Task_force/Technology_infrastructure,_in…
and
http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Emerging_strategic_priorities/ESP_5…
Let me know if you have questions. Thanks!
=Eugene
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Blue Oxen Associates ........................ http://www.blueoxen.com/
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