On 06/10/2007, Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell@gmail.com wrote:
On 10/6/07, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
I've been putting placeholder images on a lot of articles on en:wp. e.g. [[Image:Replace this image male.svg]], which goes to [[Wikipedia:Fromowner]], which asks people to upload an image if they own one. I know it's inspired people to add free content images to articles in several cases. What I'm interested in is numbers. So what I'd need is a list of edits where one of the SVGs that redirects to [[Wikipedia:Fromowner]] is replaced with an image. (Checking which of those are actually free images can come next.) Is there a tolerably easy way to get this info from a dump? Any Wikipedia statistics fans who think this'd be easy?
It wouldn't be hard to do with a recent *full history dump*. Which does not exist. Get me a full history dump and I'll give you a list of all revisions that included the image.
We now have an en:wp full history dump!
Cross-namespace redirects don't work any more, so the images I'm after numbers for replacements of are [[Image:Replace this image1.svg]], [[Image:Replace this image male.svg]] and [[Image:Replace this image female.svg]].
Are you still able to help with this? If not, anyone else into fossicking through history dumps?
- d.