[Toolserver-l] More advanced watchlists

[Lars Aronsson]

==Watch a category of articles==
2010 is election year in Sweden, so I want to keep an eye on all 
articles in category:Swedish politicians, in recursive levels.

I now do this on a weekly basis, using CatScan,
http://toolserver.org/~daniel/WikiSense/CategoryIntersect.php

I set wiki = sv.wikipedia.org
search in category = svenska politiker
with depth = 7
for changes in last 168 hours (= 7 x 24 = one week)
save as CSV format

I then filter the output using the UNIX command line
awk '$1==0 {print $2}'|sort|uniq -c|sort -nr

to get a listing of which articles got the most edits.

It would be nice to intersect this search with category:Living 
people, so dead politicians are filtered out.

Are there already any smarter tools to do this?

==Watch a local community==
For a local history project, I want to involve users close to me.
These are found in category:Users in (my home town).  From that 
category I can view "related changes", but that only covers 
changes to their user pages. I want to see contributions made by 
this group of users. Are there any tools for this?

If contributions to sv.wikipedia and Wikimedia commons could be 
combined in one list, that would be all the better.


-- 
  Lars Aronsson (lars at aronsson.se)
  Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se