Re: [Wiki-research-l] Looking for examples and suggestions for research project on my work at UNESCO

2017-06-26 Thread Ed Summers
Hi John, I suspect you've seen this already, but you can use MediaWiki's external link search to search for links to UNESCO. For example here's how to find links to resources hosted at en.unesco.org/mediabank in the commons:

[Wiki-research-l] rc stream

2015-04-07 Thread Ed Summers
A few people have mentioned [1] to me that the Recent Changes IRC channels are going to be shut down in favor of the new Socket.IO based stream [2]. Does anyone know if this is anything more than a rumor? //Ed [1] https://github.com/edsu/wikistream/issues/42 [2]

Re: [Wiki-research-l] rc stream

2015-04-07 Thread Ed Summers
Yuvi right away, it seems that you *did* get a clear answer out of us all. On Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 3:42 PM, Ed Summers e...@pobox.com wrote: On Apr 7, 2015, at 4:07 PM, Aaron Halfaker ahalfa...@wikimedia.org wrote: Really, RCStream is what the IRC feed ought to have been -- and probably

Re: [Wiki-research-l] rc stream

2015-04-07 Thread Ed Summers
wiki-research for this conversation. It seems more suited for wikipedia-tech in hindsight. On Apr 7, 2015, at 3:56 PM, Yuvi Panda yuvipa...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 12:51 PM, Ed Summers e...@pobox.com wrote: That wasn't the most compelling argument for migrating. But thanks

Re: [Wiki-research-l] rc stream

2015-04-07 Thread Ed Summers
That wasn't the most compelling argument for migrating. But thanks for the response: //Ed On Apr 7, 2015, at 1:40 PM, Yuvi Panda yuvipa...@gmail.com wrote: It is going to be at Some Point In The Far Future, and there will be a large amount of notice given, and possibly a less reliable

Re: [Wiki-research-l] rc stream

2015-04-07 Thread Ed Summers
On Apr 7, 2015, at 4:07 PM, Aaron Halfaker ahalfa...@wikimedia.org wrote: Really, RCStream is what the IRC feed ought to have been -- and probably would have been if those standards were available at the time of its construction. RCStream solves the same problem better. Actually, I

Re: [Wiki-research-l] rc stream

2015-04-07 Thread Ed Summers
On Apr 7, 2015, at 4:54 PM, Oliver Keyes oke...@wikimedia.org wrote: Well, if you got all your learning out of the way in the first email, I'm really confused as to what you thought a backhanded none of you are helping would do 3 hours later. You asked an honest question, you got a very

Re: [Wiki-research-l] stream.wikimedia.org

2015-04-02 Thread Ed Summers
On Apr 2, 2015, at 5:15 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.com wrote: I listed the examples I know of (from a previous thread) at https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Stream.wikimedia.org#Clients_and_alternative_access_points The first no longer seems to work. The second seems to use

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Pageviews, mobile versus desktop

2014-12-15 Thread Ed Summers
On Dec 13, 2014, at 3:15 PM, Oliver Keyes oke...@wikimedia.org wrote: http://ironholds.org/misc/pageviews_year_and_week.png - fascinating! It reveals a lot of seasonality in the desktop views - again, not replicated on mobile (at least, not so strongly) Nice, that seasonal pattern is

Re: [Wiki-research-l] How to track all the diffs in real time?

2014-12-13 Thread Ed Summers
+1 Yuvi About a year ago I put together a little program that identified .uk external links in Wikipedia’s changes for the web archiving folks at the British Library. Because it needed to fetch the diff for each change I never pushed it very far, out of concerns for the API traffic. I never

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Pageviews, mobile versus desktop

2014-12-13 Thread Ed Summers
On Dec 13, 2014, at 12:18 PM, Oliver Keyes oke...@wikimedia.org wrote: I'm not sure what this means (desktop users are weird? There's a lot of bot traffic we're not catching? That's my guess) but I thought it was pretty and might provoke some hypothesising. So, here you go! I think the

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Joining derp?

2014-09-04 Thread Ed Summers
On Sep 3, 2014, at 7:29 PM, Jonathan Morgan jmor...@wikimedia.org wrote: There were other reasons we decided to be a little more cautious about committing to this kind of initiative. As Toby Negrin pointed out recently: There is one major difference between the companies involved in DERP and

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Joining derp?

2014-09-04 Thread Ed Summers
On Sep 4, 2014, at 11:20 AM, aaron shaw aarons...@northwestern.edu wrote: Sorry Ed, I don't think we all know that. In fact, I'm unaware of any way in which Wikimedia makes money based on data collected from its users. To my knowledge, the Foundation is supported almost entirely through

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Joining derp?

2014-09-04 Thread Ed Summers
On Sep 4, 2014, at 12:54 PM, Nathan nawr...@gmail.com wrote: e more common descriptor for that is content generated by users since data collected from users usually refers to data about the user. Just one more example of how a non-standard use of language can cause confusion. It’s a

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Joining derp?

2014-09-03 Thread Ed Summers
On Sep 3, 2014, at 8:36 AM, Aaron Halfaker ahalfa...@wikimedia.org wrote: Indeed. Jonathan, Dario and I have been in contact with Tim Hwang and the other DERP organizers for months. We're a big fan of the project and we're on the DERP mailing list. Regretfully, there was some confusion

Re: [Wiki-research-l] wikitweets: view tweets that reference wikipedia in realtime

2012-09-19 Thread Ed Summers
question, do you also store the records? bests, .t On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 7:14 PM, emijrp emi...@gmail.com wrote: 2012/4/26 Ed Summers e...@pobox.com This is more on the experimental side of research but I just finished a prototype realtime visualization of tweets that reference Wikipedia

Re: [Wiki-research-l] wikitweets: view tweets that reference wikipedia in realtime

2012-04-29 Thread Ed Summers
On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 5:08 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.com wrote: Archiving tweets is surely useful, cf. http://archive.org/details/archiveteam-json-twitterstream-2012. An archive.org item with wikitweets in whatever format you grab them in (JSON? RSS?) should be quite trivial to

Re: [Wiki-research-l] wikitweets: view tweets that reference wikipedia in realtime

2012-04-26 Thread Ed Summers
a perceived need for the data. So it sounds like you might be interested? On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 1:14 PM, emijrp emi...@gmail.com wrote: 2012/4/26 Ed Summers e...@pobox.com This is more on the experimental side of research but I just finished a prototype realtime visualization of tweets

[Wiki-research-l] wikitrends

2012-02-21 Thread Ed Summers
I imagine something like this has already been done before, but I thought I would mention it as a curiosity: Wikitrends http://inkdroid.org/wikitrends/ Wikitrends is a display of the top 25 view articles on English Wikipedia in the latest hour. It relies on stats that Wikimedia make

Re: [Wiki-research-l] wikitrends

2012-02-21 Thread Ed Summers
...@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:wiki-research-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Ed Summers Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2012 9:36 AM To: Research into Wikimedia content and communities Subject: [Wiki-research-l] wikitrends I imagine something like this has already been done before

Re: [Wiki-research-l] wikistream: displays wikipedia updates in realtime

2011-10-15 Thread Ed Summers
are) icons; those icon-based filters are a nice addition! -Jodi On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 5:38 PM, Ed Summers e...@pobox.com wrote: Hi all, Just a quick heads up to let you know I added some statistics gathering to wikistream.inkdroid.org for displaying trending articles. Trending articles are just

Re: [Wiki-research-l] wikistream: displays wikipedia updates in realtime

2011-10-15 Thread Ed Summers
Just fixed that, thanks! //Ed On Sat, Oct 15, 2011 at 10:57 PM, Fae fae...@gmail.com wrote: It makes the trends page unreadable. Could you add a white underlay to the tabulated text so it does not become obscured by a changing unpredictable background? Cheers, Fae --

Re: [Wiki-research-l] wikistream: displays wikipedia updates in realtime

2011-06-22 Thread Ed Summers
On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 2:25 AM, Dmitry Chichkov dchich...@gmail.com wrote: You may want to take a look at the wpcvn.com - it also displays realtime stream (filtered)... Oh wow, maybe I can shut mine off now :-) //Ed ___ Wiki-research-l mailing list

Re: [Wiki-research-l] wikistream: displays wikipedia updates in realtime

2011-06-21 Thread Ed Summers
On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 12:45 AM, Dario Taraborelli dtarabore...@wikimedia.org wrote: - there's a typo in the dropdown menu (All Wikpedias) fixed, thanks! - you should probably set a min-width for the control panel - when I move the slide to values greater than 0 the text is wrapped, no

Re: [Wiki-research-l] wikistream: displays wikipedia updates in realtime

2011-06-21 Thread Ed Summers
On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 1:11 AM, Dario Taraborelli dtarabore...@wikimedia.org wrote: min-width now works as expected, but the wrapped text issue is still there in all three browsers Ok I made the deltaControl a bit bigger. It looks fine in my Chrome and Firefox (on Linux). If it is still a

Re: [Wiki-research-l] wikistream: displays wikipedia updates in realtime

2011-06-20 Thread Ed Summers
Hi Jyothis, On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 9:48 PM, Jyothis E jyothi...@gmail.com wrote: Can we plan for a few filter options for name spaces, time zones,  IP edits vs non IP edits, for IP edits, may be geolocation based IP activism on a mao, Also may be languages grouped by continent (may be tie

Re: [Wiki-research-l] wikistream: displays wikipedia updates in realtime

2011-06-18 Thread Ed Summers
Hi SJ, On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 1:46 AM, Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com wrote: Without changing the concept or algorithm much, I'd like to see a three column version, with the left-most column being for all edits -- with speed smoothed out over time (time delay 30 seconds, average it out); the

Re: [Wiki-research-l] wikistream: displays wikipedia updates in realtime

2011-06-16 Thread Ed Summers
at 12:40 AM, Ed Summers e...@pobox.com wrote: I've been looking to experiment with node.js lately and created a little toy webapp that displays updates from the major language wikipedias in real time:    http://wikistream.inkdroid.org Perhaps like you, I've often tried to convey to folks

Re: [Wiki-research-l] wikistream: displays wikipedia updates in realtime

2011-06-16 Thread Ed Summers
. Kudos to Ed for sharing both the page and the software that produces it. You made my morning. -- Ward On Jun 15, 2011, at 11:04 PM, Ed Summers wrote: Actually re-reading this again, I definitely can grab the number of characters in the change from the IRC update ... something like this 3

Re: [Wiki-research-l] top hosts in external links

2010-08-25 Thread Ed Summers
On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 5:03 PM, Edward Betts edw...@archive.org wrote: That would be this: http://edwardbetts.com/findlink Enter the title of an article and it will find other articles that could link to it. For an example see this: http://edwardbetts.com/findlink?q=planned+community I