[Toolserver-l] More advanced watchlists

[Magnus Manske]

On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 5:13 PM, Lars Aronsson <lars at aronsson.se> wrote:
>
> ==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?

Sorted by date, with intersection:
<http://toolserver.org/~magnus/catscan_rewrite.php?language=sv&depth=7&categories=Svenska+politiker%0D%0ALevande+personer&after=20091026&sortby=date&sortorder=descending>

Cheers,
Magnus