thanks, Alchimista & xqt, for picking up this thread xqt said: > I've implemented an option to search > for several comments like "interwiki", "+iw" etc. This gives not all > interwiki changes but some of them. If this is of some interest I could > commit it soon.
yes, this sounds very interesting for my purpose, it might get me a big step ahead pretty soon please keep me updated on your results, xqt thanks & cheers Claudia On Tue, 22 May 2012 07:09:38 +0200 (CEST), info wrote > Since this is not a 2-line-code I guess it would be the best to make > feature request for that. Or we have option d: wait for wikidata, maybe > this request is obsolete til then. I've implemented an option to search > for several comments like "interwiki", "+iw" etc. This gives not all > interwiki changes but some of them. If this is of some interest I could > commit it soon. > > regards > xqt > > ----- Original Nachricht ---- > Von: Alchimista <[email protected]> > An: Pywikipedia discussion list <[email protected]> > Datum: 21.05.2012 22:19 > Betreff: Re: [Pywikipedia-l] anyone? Re: how search for non-bot > interlanguage link edits > > > Claudia, did you already got help on this? > > > > Alchimista > > [[pt:user:Alchimista]] > > > > > > 2012/5/9 <[email protected]> > > > > > thanks, Morten: > > > > > > > if you know how to program in Python > > > > > > well, I don't, ... not yet, that is, > > > one reason why I came here to ask :-) > > > > > > my favourite is b.: > > > a. find the time and set the priorities to do it myself > > > b. ask sb else to support me by programming this query > > > c. follow a different kind of interest and not rely on the Wikipedia > > > community > > > > > > anyone up for b.? > > > > > > thanks > > > C. > > > > > > On Tue, 8 May 2012 11:00:22 -0500, Morten Wang wrote > > > > Claudia asked: > > > > > Q: being in none of the special Wikipedia roles, which of these ideas > > > would I be able to try out by > > > myself? > > > > > > > > All the metadata is available through the Wikipedia API, and the > > > > Pywikipediabot framework makes a lot of it easily accessible, so if > > > > you know how to program in Python, it's doable :) > > > > > > > > Cheers, > > > > Morten > > > > > > > > On 8 May 2012 10:40, <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > hi Bináris, Merlijn, Alchimista, and Morten, > > > > > > > > > > thank you very much > > > > > does anyone of you remember hearing a very new type of song, and > > being > > > fascinated for sure but not > > > quite > > > > > trusting your ears? > > > > > > > > > > btw, on his talk page yesterday, JAn came up with an idea that sounds > > > like "new song" to me, too: > > > > > http://cs.wikipedia.org/w/index.php? > > > title=Diskuse_s_wikipedistou:JAn_Dudík&diff=8497947&oldid=8497773 > > > > > > > > > > Morten said > > > > >> Hope some of this helps, let me know if there's any questions. > > > > > > > > > > I guess there are, Morten, thanks :-) > > > > > > > > > > Q: being in none of the special Wikipedia roles, which of these ideas > > > would I be able to try out by > > > myself? > > > > > > > > > > btw, thanks for asking @Morten, > > > > > > > > > > cheers, > > > > > Claudia > > > > > > > > > > On Tue, 8 May 2012 10:01:23 -0500, Morten Wang wrote > > > > >> I did some data gathering last fall that is more or less the same as > > > > >> Claudia is asking about. Looking up the bot flag, or checking the > > > > >> username is often regarded as a reasonable way of filtering out the > > > > >> bots. I chose to apply both, if there's no bot flag we look for a > > > > >> typical bot signature in the username (regex: "bot$| ", username > > > > >> either ends with bot or a part of it does), and used a > > > > >> case-insensitive match since some users have usernames like > > "FoObOt". > > > > >> > > > > >> Checking the edit history to find when interwiki links were first > > > > >> added can be time-consuming if the page had lots of activity. I > > > > >> therefore chose to use a binary search, halving the distance between > > > > >> two test points until either the actual edit is found, or we're down > > > > >> to so few edits that all can be efficiently grabbed through the API > > > > >> (e.g. using Pywikibot's PreloadingGenerator). Otherwise you might be > > > > >> examining thousands of edits for no reason. > > > > >> > > > > >> Having Toolserver access simplifies the process a lot since all the > > > > >> metadata is more easily accessible, but the revision text will still > > > > >> have to be grabbed from the API. > > > > >> > > > > >> Hope some of this helps, let me know if there's any questions. > > > > >> > > > > >> Cheers, > > > > >> Morten > > > > >> > > > > >> On 8 May 2012 08:39, Bináris <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > >> > 2012/5/8 Merlijn van Deen <[email protected]> > > > > >> >> > > > > >> >> > > > > >> >> This is not completely true - the bot flag is also a property of > > > the > > > > >> >> user account. You can query e.g. > > > > >> >> > > > > >> >> http://nl.wikipedia.org/w/index.php? > > > > > title=Speciaal:Gebruikerslijst&offset=&limit=500&group=bot&uselang=en > > > > >> >> > > > > >> > > > > > >> > Yes, that's true. And if you want to be quite accurate, you must > > > also > > > > >> > determine the date of acquiring the bot flag from bureau logs and > > > compare it > > > > >> > to the page history. :-) > > > > >> > > > > > >> > -- > > > > >> > Bináris > > > > >> > > > > > >> > _______________________________________________ > > > > >> > Pywikipedia-l mailing list > > > > >> > [email protected] > > > > >> > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/pywikipedia-l > > > > >> > > > > > >> > > > > >> _______________________________________________ > > > > >> Pywikipedia-l mailing list > > > > >> [email protected] > > > > >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/pywikipedia-l > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > thanks & cheers, > > > > > Claudia > > > > > [email protected] > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > > Pywikipedia-l mailing list > > > > > [email protected] > > > > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/pywikipedia-l > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Pywikipedia-l mailing list > > > > [email protected] > > > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/pywikipedia-l > > > > > > > > > thanks & cheers, > > > Claudia > > > [email protected] > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Pywikipedia-l mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/pywikipedia-l > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Alchimista > > http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utilizador:Alchimista > > > > > > -------------------------------- > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Pywikipedia-l mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/pywikipedia-l > > > > _______________________________________________ > Pywikipedia-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/pywikipedia-l thanks & cheers, Claudia [email protected] _______________________________________________ Pywikipedia-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/pywikipedia-l
