WikiTracer needs your help!

WikiTracer [1] is a new Web service providing cross-platform visual analytics and comparative statistics for wikis. Its goal is to offer wiki administrators an easy way to monitor and evaluate the growth and performance of their own wiki. The service is meant to foster wiki adoption and should be of interest to a variety of users, including wiki researchers, developers and practitioners.

The project was introduced last year at WikiSym and its development is currently in alpha stage: we are working on data collection and validation with a small number of wikis to be able to implement the visualization tools with real data soon.

We are looking for developers to help us write a MediaWiki extension for this service. The extension will need to retrieve a number of statistics for the wiki (possibly relying on the MediaWiki API) and expose them in XML format (validated against a public XML schema) for the service to harvest them.

The specs [2] and some preliminary thoughts on implementing a MediaWiki extension [3] are available on the project documentation website. We can assist you with the development of the extension and the validation of the output.

If you wish to learn more on this project of fancy contributing you can drop me a line: info [at] wikitracer [dot] com, join the (low traffic) WT community mailing list [4] or pop by on the WT IRC channel on freenode [5].

Best,

Dario

[1] http://wikitracer.com/ [2] http://wikitracer.com/docs/WTPluginDraft [3] http://wikitracer.com/docs/WTMediaWiki [4] http://dev.wikitracer.com/mailman/listinfo/community_dev.wikitracer.com [5] irc://irc.freenode.net/wikitracer