[Wikipedia-l] Re: New Wikistats

[Anthere]

I am delighted the stats are back. Thanks a huge lot Erik. Ant


Erik Zachte a écrit:
> Finally, new wikistats.
> 
> It took a couple of weekends to get the scripts up to date for the new
> database format.
> 
> You may have to refresh the page in your browser to see new stats (Ctrl-F5)
> Stats are generated from newest dump (March 9)
> 
> The layout has been improved in some places (newest stats on top, language
> names in comparison tables).
> 
> New features:
> 
> Records counts per namespace:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wikistats/EN/TablesWikipediaEN.htm#namespaces
> 
> Percentage categorised articles (same url as above)
> 
> Hierarchical category trees per Wikipedia (some are huge!):
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wikistats/EN/CategoryOverviewIndex.htm
> 
> Not entirely new but not yet advertised here:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wikistats/EN/TimeLinesIndex.htm
> 
> EasyTimeline charts are collected per Wikipedia and listed together with the
> script code. This may serve as a source of inspiration and help to learn the
> syntax. Also this can help to find real gems on other Wikipedias that
> deserve to be translated. Although starting a timeline from scratch is not
> completely trivial, expanding, correcting or certainly translating an
> existing chart is really where the plug-in earns its name.
> 
> Tech notes on script update:
> 
> Decipering the serialized compressed info was not a major hurdle, although
> the Perl equivalent (http://hurring.com/code/perl/serialize/ )was unusable,
> way too slow (goes through a state machine for each character), so I had to
> cook something myself.
> 
> Keeping everything within reasonable memory boundaries was more difficult,
> wherever possible data are written to disk in several bins (e.g. one
> intermediate file per month history), sorted per bin, then merged before
> readback.
> 
> Erik Zachte