[Foundation-l] Re: wikistats (was Information flow)

[Jakob Voss]

Robert Scott Horning wrote:
> Jakob Voss wrote:
> 
>> Most statistics can be created out of the database dumps but first you 
>> have to know how to get it, where to put it and how to treat it.
>> I have updated http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Export but you 
>> still need some hardware and programming skills.
> 
> There are many statistics, particularly user counts and attempts to 
> determine authorship of a particular artile or revision histories of 
> articles, that simply can't be obtained from the Special:Export feature, 
> as it is currently implemented.  

Unfourtunately Special:Export is crippled. Generally you get get all the 
version history but this feature seems to be disabled like the internal 
search. Let's hope that "making available the content in a transparent 
copy" will get more focus after the next server growth.

Greetings,
Jakob