[Toolserver-l] More advanced watchlists

[Platonides]

Lars Aronsson 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?

Watching articles in a given category wouldn't be too hard.
OTOH, recursion and intersection have the problems that have been
discussed many times.


> ==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.

Viewing contributions made by a group (with the option of importing from
a category) look appropiate for a TS tool.