Jakob Voss wrote in gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical:

Hi,

"Kate's tools" are currently not available - I am searching for some information about it because I want to cite it in my Wikipedia research paper. Most important: Who is kate (full name)?

I'd rather not be mentioned by name, if that's possible.

Here is the paragraph I want to write:

You can easily create user profiles out of the list of all user contributions but de-personalisation is absolutely necessary because of privacy. Kate .... wrote a tool where every Wikipedia user can watch his profile graphically and make it available if he wants[1].

[1] See http://wikimedia.org/~kate/ for a link to "count number of edits from a user". The application is currently not online because of server problems.

An older version of this tool is available at http://zwinger.wikimedia.org/~kate/cgi-bin/count_edits.cgi. This doesn't include the edit history graphs, which won't be returning in the forseeable future.

You can also correct my bad English!

I am also interested in "Six degrees of Wikipedia". If you could take a random sample of well...around 1.000 article pairs and send me a histogram of distances - that would be *really* great!

The source for the links daemon can be found at http://wikimedia.org/~kate/linksd. Feeding 1000 articles to it from the database should be quite easy.

Thanks a lot, Jakob

Kate.