Re: [Wiki-research-l] Users across all Wikimedia projects

2018-08-07 Thread Piscopo A .
Hi Scott, Thank you very much, the paper is definitely relevant for what I am doing. However, I would like to look at how the behaviour of multilinguals evolve over time, so I will have to find another solution for getting user names. I’ll keep you and the community updated about the future

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Users across all Wikimedia projects

2018-08-03 Thread Scott Hale
Hi Alessandro, Usernames are unique across Wikimedia projects now; so, it is possible to simply union/intersect the usernames from any projects to understand the overlap. There are, however, as you have seen a huge number of users although most are not active in any given month. One approach I

[Wiki-research-l] Users across all Wikimedia projects

2018-08-03 Thread Piscopo A .
Hello everyone, I would like to carry out a study about how users work across different projects in the Wikimedia ecosystem. I can’t find any dataset containing all usernames and user ids across all the projects, or at least those with a global account. I’ve tried with quarry, but the query to