Hi Jodi,

A lot of thanks for you work.

Would that be useful to anyone else?

Sure! I was just going to ask on the list about such stuff when your mail arrived.

Regards,

Pavlo Shevelo

On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 1:30 PM, Jodi Schneider jodi.schneider@deri.org wrote:

We had a very useful collective notetaking effort during Felipe's Wikimania session on Mining Wikipedia public data. To have a second copy, I've dumped it the contents into the Talk page for that session: http://wikimania2010.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Submissions/Mining_Wikipedia_pu... There are several interesting parts -- including a summary of Felipe's recommendations. I'll paste below just one section -- about tools/best practices -- because I'd really like to see a central place to look up documentation on best practices, tools, and methodologies. It could transclude from or point to the existing documentation. Would that be useful to anyone else? If so, this list might give a scope of the tech aspects, as a starting place. If it already exists --as an existing single point-of-entry, I'd be delighted to know that instead!

-Jodi

Here's part of that sync.in sheet -- worth looking at the whole thing, at http://sync.in/60kOfEwBHA

What tools/best practices can we share/should we know about?

Tools for analytizing particular articles http://toolserver.org/~daniel/WikiSense/Contributors.php%C2%A0- number of contributors http://toolserver.org/~mzmcbride/watcher/%C2%A0- number of people who are watching a page http://stats.grok.se/en/201007/%C2%A0- most viewed pages, largest # of editors in a month, viewed page statistics http://en.wikichecker.com/article/ http://wikidashboard.parc.com%C2%A0visualization in place

Bots and code http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Pywikipediabot%C2%A0pywikipediabot - queries the Wikipedia API Computer resources http://toolserver.org/~daniel/%C2%A0Talk to Daniel about Toolserver accounts Tools for dealing with particular dumps http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download%C2%A0- Information on downloading the database What are these good for? (classify me) http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiXRay%C2%A0quantitative analysis tool (from Felipe Ortega et al) http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Micke/WikiFind%C2%A0search tool for database dumps http://www.cs.technion.ac.il/~gabr/resources/code/wikiprep/%C2%A0- preprocessor for XML dumps, "eliminates some information and adds other useful information" http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Alternative_parsers%C2%A0- List  of parsers http://static.wikipedia.org/%C2%A0- Static HTML dumps _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l