Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wikimediaindia-l] Releasing a small tool to explore wikipedia users contributions

Last week, we had a Indic Wikisource Proofreadthon 2020 event. see here for full details https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Indic_Wikisource_Proofreadthon_2020 Though I did not participate in this event, (feels sad for this. Life is too messy nowadays), I thought to build a small tool to give report on any wikipedia user’s contribution on a given wikisite for a given date range. It may help to calculate, measure, decide on the contributions for such competitions. Mediawiki has a good API to fetch user contributions. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Usercontribs Get all edits by a user. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Usercontribs For my wonder, there was a sample python code on the same page. The code gave only 500 results. I wrote a loop to get the data batch by batch till all the data is received. Published the tool here – https://github.com/tshrinivasan/wiki_user_contributions_report How to run? python3 get_user_contributions.py <language> <wikisite> <username> <start_date> <end_date> This will give the data as a CSV file. Used a csv-to-html converter utility to convert this to a web page with all the data in a sortable table. For my wonder, my friend Dinesh Karthik, converted this as a nice web application with flask, dash and hosted in heroku. https://wiki-user-contributions.herokuapp.com/ Source : https://github.com/Dineshkarthik/wiki-user-contributions Thanks to Info-farmer for providing the idea, Bartosz Dziewoński on wikipedia mailing list for answering all my questions, Dinesh for making a web application quickly. https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l is a good place to ask any tech questions regarding wikipedia. Thanks to all wikisource contributors for the event and in general. -- Regards, T.Shrinivasan My Life with GNU/Linux : http://goinggnu.wordpress.com Free E-Magazine on Free Open Source Software in Tamil : http://kaniyam.com Get Free Tamil Ebooks for Android, iOS, Kindle, Computer : http://FreeTamilEbooks.com _______________________________________________ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Affiliations Committee" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to affcom+unsubscribe(a)wikimedia.org.