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?
(If the placeholders do work, then it'd also be useful convincing some wikiprojects to encourage the things. Not that there's ownership of articles on en:wp, of *course* ...)
- d.
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?
(If the placeholders do work, then it'd also be useful convincing some wikiprojects to encourage the things. Not that there's ownership of articles on en:wp, of *course* ...)
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.
On 06/10/2007, Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell@gmail.com wrote:
It wouldn't be hard to do with a recent *full history dump*. Which does not exist.
Yeah, I was afraid of that ...
Get me a full history dump and I'll give you a list of all revisions that included the image.
*cough*
- d.
Gregory Maxwell skrev:
Get me a full history dump and I'll give you a list of all revisions that included the image.
Yes, no problem, with access to a full dump.
BTW, my posts don't go through in the wikien-1 list. I registered recently, though.
Did I get it right assuming that WIKIEN-1 = gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.english? (if not, then I understand why my posts don't go through)
Regards,
// Rolf Lampa
On 10/7/07, Rolf Lampa rolf.lampa@rilnet.com wrote:
... BTW, my posts don't go through in the wikien-1 list. I registered recently, though.
Try wikien-l (L) instead of wikien-1 (one)
Angela
2007/10/7, Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell@gmail.com:
Get me a full history dump and I'll give you a list of all revisions that included the image.
Maybe it would be easier to use contributions made by David to find adding place holders, and just check current article state on living Wikipedia?
AJF/WarX
On 10/10/2007, Artur Fijałkowski wiki.warx@gmail.com wrote:
2007/10/7, Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell@gmail.com:
Get me a full history dump and I'll give you a list of all revisions that included the image.
Maybe it would be easier to use contributions made by David to find adding place holders, and just check current article state on living Wikipedia?
That might provide a decent sample - I've been getting into the thousands, as I've been using AWB to add a few thousand of them!
- d.
On 10/10/07, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
On 10/10/2007, Artur Fijałkowski wiki.warx@gmail.com wrote:
2007/10/7, Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell@gmail.com:
Get me a full history dump and I'll give you a list of all revisions that included the image.
Maybe it would be easier to use contributions made by David to find adding place holders, and just check current article state on living Wikipedia?
That might provide a decent sample - I've been getting into the thousands, as I've been using AWB to add a few thousand of them!
On a related note: You can enter an image name, e.g. "Image:Replace this image male.svg", as a "category" into my watchflickr tool [1], and it will check all the page titles this image is used on for a potential free image on flickr.
Cheers, Magnus
On 10/10/2007, Magnus Manske magnusmanske@googlemail.com wrote:
On a related note: You can enter an image name, e.g. "Image:Replace this image male.svg", as a "category" into my watchflickr tool [1], and it will check all the page titles this image is used on for a potential free image on flickr. [1] http://tools.wikimedia.de/~magnus/watchflickr.php
So I can fiddle my stats myself? Exxxxcellent ;-D
- d.
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.
On Sat, Oct 6, 2007 at 5:05 PM, 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?
(If the placeholders do work, then it'd also be useful convincing some wikiprojects to encourage the things. Not that there's ownership of articles on en:wp, of *course* ...)
Just this morning I noticed arbcom member Wizardman (of Colbert Report fame) serially removing these images.
Did you ever find these statistics, David, Greg?
Last I heard was this:
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 10:20 AM, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
2008/10/10 Philip Sandifer snowspinner@gmail.com:
On Oct 10, 2008, at 11:03 AM, Charlotte Webb wrote:
If anyone has statistics for how many photos have been submitted via clicking on the placeholder, now would a good time to break 'em out.
I believe David Gerard knows these. David?
I don't, actually. Greg Maxwell said to me a while ago it would be easy to run them from a full history dump - Greg?
- d.
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