WikiTracer needs your help!
WikiTracer [1] is a new Web service providing cross-platform visual
analytics and comparative statistics for wikis. Its goal is to offer
wiki administrators an easy way to monitor and evaluate the growth and
performance of their own wiki. The service is meant to foster wiki
adoption and should be of interest to a variety of users, including
wiki researchers, developers and practitioners.
The project was introduced last year at WikiSym and its development is
currently in alpha stage: we are working on data collection and
validation with a small number of wikis to be able to implement the
visualization tools with real data soon.
We are looking for developers to help us write a MediaWiki extension
for this service. The extension will need to retrieve a number of
statistics for the wiki (possibly relying on the MediaWiki API) and
expose them in XML format (validated against a public XML schema) for
the service to harvest them.
The specs [2] and some preliminary thoughts on implementing a
MediaWiki extension [3] are available on the project documentation
website. We can assist you with the development of the extension and
the validation of the output.
If you wish to learn more on this project of fancy contributing you
can drop me a line: info [at] wikitracer [dot] com, join the (low
traffic) WT community mailing list [4] or pop by on the WT IRC channel
on freenode [5].
Best,
Dario
[1]
http://wikitracer.com/
[2]
http://wikitracer.com/docs/WTPluginDraft
[3]
http://wikitracer.com/docs/WTMediaWiki
[4]
http://dev.wikitracer.com/mailman/listinfo/community_dev.wikitracer.com
[5]
irc://irc.freenode.net/wikitracer