Subject: WikiSym 2008 proceedings and Wikipedia research - msg#00013

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Re: non-techie in need of guidance - Template namespace

You might ask the folks at Freebase http://www.freebase.com/ for help. They gave a presentation at one of the SF-Bay area meetups recently and described how they've managed to extract data about templates and infoboxes from Wikipedia. I am fuzzy on the details but they can probably help... I believe most of their code is open source. -- Phoebe On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 6:49 PM, Quse Guy <quseguy-/E1597aS9LQAvxtiuMwx3w@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Greetings all, > Please excuse me if my message is inappropriate for this list, but I'm > looking for a place to start and unsure where to begin. > > I'm trying to get some sense of the scope of the Template namespace on the > English-language Wikipedia: anything from sheer numbers, to which templates > are the most edited, to which are the most used (either in terms of total > number of transclusions/What Links Here, or else actual number of "hits"). > > To be a bit more specific, I'm particularly interested in those Templates > which are in the following two categories: > * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Navbox_(navigational)_templates > * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Infobox_templates > But both of these categories consist of a large number of subcategories, > sub-sub-categories, sub-sub-sub-...categories, making it difficult to > attempt even a basic count of all the Navbox and Infobox templates. Of > course, determining which Navboxes and Infoboxes are the most edited or the > most used would be impossible to ascertain manually. > > I haven't written an SQL statement since taking a database course in 1998, > so I'm wary of downloading one of the database dumps and attempting to > manipulate things on my own. Nor am I even certain that the data included > in the dumps would allow me to aggregate across sub-sub-sub...categories, or > derive edit counts or use counts. > > Perhaps there's a GUI tool or interface that would be helpful in compiling > these stats? Or perhaps these statistics are readily available and I simply > haven't looked in the right places :) > > Again, any advice on this matter would be most appreciated. > > Regards, > David > > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > Wiki-research-l-RusutVdil2icGmH+5r0DM0B+6BGkLq7r@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > > -- - phoebe s. ayers | phoebe.ayers-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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Put your name and project on meta:Research

Hi all apparently as a side effect of the "about wikipedia projects" thread, some people (including myself) have started to put their names and projects on <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research>. I encurrage everyone to do the same. It's a great way to get an overview and to find people to talk to. -- Daniel