Tuesday, January 22, 2008, 11:20:54 PM, Tobias Thelen wrote: > "How can I see (in some kind of overview) who did what and > how much?"
> As a first approximation to that problem I implemented a simple way to > count contributions by directly grepping through the page store (in case > you're interested - see below [2]. It needs a UNIX environment). But > mere numbers don't tell much about a user's activity. Interesting problem! You know as much as I that all the information lies in each page's history. action=diff gives a good view of this. Your statistical tools could make better use of it, for instance differentiating between additions, deletions and changes to paragraphs, and counting characters for each, and logging it with the authors. But all this quantifying does say nothing about the quality of contributions. I think it would be a bad idea to use statistics in order to asses pupils contributions, or create some sort of point system. For instance I don't like the way phpBB forums display the totals of messages posted, and award ranks based on this. Some social network sites do this as well I think. But a wiki is all about collaboration, not to score well by making lots of contributions. I would encourage the pupils as well as teachers to use the RecentChanges pages, and AllRecentChanges, because these are the places where changes are logged to give each other quickly the overview of where the work is happening. I would encourage to always write meaningful change summaries when posting, and to use the 'minor changes' box when corrections are made. And it may be good to provide more information in these pages, for instance the size of changes or additions, perhaps as a word count. That information would then be available for both teachers and pupils, and will aid collaborative involvement, rather than remaining a tool for teachers to asses pupils. The idea of colour-coding for different authors I find totally contrary to wiki culture. It may gratify an author's ego to put his colours all over the place, but opposes the spirit of collaboration, which aims to create unified web-content, and where contributors can take pride in their collective achievement, rather than individual ones. If one wants to foster individual contributions for the individual's sake, it would be better to let each pupil manage her/his own wiki group, and create her/his own project there. Then it is not so much about collaboration, but still about web content creation. And each pupils work is easily visible. Sorry if I have ranted on a bit! Gruss, ~Hans _______________________________________________ pmwiki-users mailing list [email protected] http://www.pmichaud.com/mailman/listinfo/pmwiki-users
