All,
I was wondering if anybody had come up with a mod for mediawiki that shows the volatility of a wiki page graphically - by some metric, either by number of lines per week edited vs total length, number of contributing editors, or some other such measure.
I guess what I'd like to see when I go to a wiki page is some idea of stability - that I could look in the upper right hand corner and see how many authors there were, how many reverts there were, or something else that gave me at a glance how controversial a given topic was.
IMO this would go a long way towards - if not legitimizing wikipedia - giving people an idea of how controversial the topics were, and depending on the metric, give administrators an idea of whether or not intervention is required..
Anyways, does something like this exist, and if so, is there a way to make graphs like these display on each page when you go to wikipedia?
Thanks much,
Ed
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Edward Peschko wrote:
All,
I was wondering if anybody had come up with a mod for mediawiki that shows the volatility of a wiki page graphically - by some metric, either by number of lines per week edited vs total length, number of contributing editors, or some other such measure.
I guess what I'd like to see when I go to a wiki page is some idea of stability - that I could look in the upper right hand corner and see how many authors there were, how many reverts there were, or something else that gave me at a glance how controversial a given topic was.
That'd be great; I remember seeing some ideas/demos like this at Wikimania 2006 but I'm not sure any of those are still active.
There is a gadget/plugin thingy which shows historical editing patterns which kind of relates to this, which I'm totally forgetting the name and URL of right now. :P
- -- brion
Brion Vibber schrieb:
Edward Peschko wrote:
All,
I was wondering if anybody had come up with a mod for mediawiki that shows the volatility of a wiki page graphically - by some metric, either by number of lines per week edited vs total length, number of contributing editors, or some other such measure.
I guess what I'd like to see when I go to a wiki page is some idea of stability - that I could look in the upper right hand corner and see how many authors there were, how many reverts there were, or something else that gave me at a glance how controversial a given topic was.
That'd be great; I remember seeing some ideas/demos like this at Wikimania 2006 but I'm not sure any of those are still active.
There is a gadget/plugin thingy which shows historical editing patterns which kind of relates to this, which I'm totally forgetting the name and URL of right now. :P
-- brion
Have a look at WikiChanges http://sergionunes.com/p/wikichanges/.
Quote: "WikiChanges is a web-based tool that exposes the revision history of Wikipedia articles using an interactive graphical timeline. See About for more information and a Greasemonkey script to embed timelines in the real Wikipedia."
Example: http://sergionunes.com/p/wikichanges/?q=Rick_Astley
-- daniel
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