[WikiEN-l] finding the most recognizable page names

2011-09-30 Thread Michael Katz
I'm making a crossword-style word game, and I'm trying to automate the process of creating the puzzles, at least somewhat. I am hoping to find or create a list of English Wikipedia page titles, sorted roughly by how recognizable they are, where by recognizable I mean something like, how likely

Re: [WikiEN-l] finding the most recognizable page names

2011-09-30 Thread WereSpielChequers
Hi Michael, I don't know if such a list exists, other than lists by largest numbers of views. Size of article probably relates to interest of one or a few editors and complexity of information, I doubt if it would closely relate to recognisability. Incoming links is probably better but can get

Re: [WikiEN-l] finding the most recognizable page names

2011-09-30 Thread Scott MacDonald
-Original Message- From: wikien-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:wikien-l- boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of WereSpielChequers Sent: 30 September 2011 10:56 To: Michael Katz; English Wikipedia Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] finding the most recognizable page names I'd

Re: [WikiEN-l] finding the most recognizable page names

2011-09-30 Thread WereSpielChequers
Yes, but for the purpose of creating a creating a game that may not be an issue. Michael asked how to get a list of recognisable topics to build a game with, not how to list all 3.7 million article names in order of recognisability. WereSpielChequers On 30 September 2011 11:11, Scott MacDonald

[WikiEN-l] --Wikipedia Manager 2012

2011-09-30 Thread Bod Notbod
Good day Wikipedians, I have of late got into a football management computer game. Don't panic, I will be relating this post to Wikipedia, hang on. I'm really enjoying the game. To such an extent that I've actually started to follow football. I've never particularly liked football. I only started

Re: [WikiEN-l] --Wikipedia Manager 2012

2011-09-30 Thread WereSpielChequers
Hi Bod, We've actually got some of these already, many in widespread use. I'm not the only editor with {{User:EVula/Userboxes/admin since|year=|month=mm|day=dd}} or {{User Wikipedian For|day=dd|month=mm|year=}} Or indeed {{user contrib}} and even {{User:WereSpielChequers/Userbox

Re: [WikiEN-l] finding the most recognizable page names

2011-09-30 Thread Ian Woollard
The raw dumps are here: http://dammit.lt/wikistats/ IRC the compressed files consist of the list of the articles that were accessed, in the order they were retrieved. You have to process them to count how often each article was read. Of course: http://stats.grok.se/ has done that heavy

Re: [WikiEN-l] --Wikipedia Manager 2012

2011-09-30 Thread Steven Walling
On Sep 30, 2011 9:47 AM, Bod Notbod bodnot...@gmail.com wrote: Good day Wikipedians, I have of late got into a football management computer game. Don't panic, I will be relating this post to Wikipedia, hang on. I'm really enjoying the game. To such an extent that I've actually started to

Re: [WikiEN-l] finding the most recognizable page names

2011-09-30 Thread Bob the Wikipedian
You might also consider http://buzzlog.yahoo.com/overall/ which lists the topics the world is searching for. Bob On 9/30/2011 1:24 PM, Ian Woollard wrote: The raw dumps are here: http://dammit.lt/wikistats/ IRC the compressed files consist of the list of the articles that were accessed,