On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 7:04 AM, Roan Kattouw roan.kattouw@gmail.com wrote:
2009/10/23 Robert Rohde rarohde@gmail.com:
Given the fairly obvious utility for data mining, it might make sense for someone to extend the Mediawiki API to generate a list of template calls and the parameters sent in each case.
We had a discussion about this Tuesday in the tech staff meeting, and decided that we want to put this data mining possibility in core at some point (using a table like pagelinks to store these key/value pairs and modifying the parser). As you may understand this is not a very high priority project, and I don't know if any of the paid developers are gonna do it any time soon.
Out of curiousity, did you discuss internal uses for this? The biggest class of users would probably be external data miners, but I suspect there might be some uses for such data within Mediawiki as well, so I'm curious if you had some application(s) in mind.
-Robert Rohde