[WikiEN-l] WikiDashboard - visualizing article history by contributor

[Gwern Branwen]

So I've recently seen items on a 'WikiDashboard', an academic project which provides an 'overlay' onto the English Wikipedia. This overlay is basically a little header at the top that lists the top 10 or whatever contributors, the number of edits each has supplied, and provides a nice little graph depicting the distribution of said edits over time.
Here's an example of a article with said header:
<http://wikidashboard.parc.com/wiki/Neon_Genesis_Evangelion_%28manga%29>.

The Augmented Social Cognition Research Group (in the Palo Alto Research Center) has a blog on the tool: <http://asc-parc.blogspot.com/>, and the tool's homepage itself is at <http://wikidashboard.parc.com/>.

Random blog post about it:
<http://chimprawk.blogspot.com/2007/09/truth-in-metadata-wikidashboard.html>

I'm not sure how useful it'd be - it seems to mess up on some pages, such as when you arrive at an article via a redirect (ex. <http://wikidashboard.parc.com/wiki/Nge_tv>) or if pages have been moved around recently (eg, <http://wikidashboard.parc.com/wiki/Neon_Genesis_Evangelion> - look at the list of contributors, then look at the history tab, and note the discrepancies <http://wikidashboard.parc.com/w/index.php?title=Neon_Genesis_Evangelion&action=history>).

But it's interesting anyway. Certainly much better than doing the history analysis by hand, definitely.

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