In Wikimania Boston, 2006, visualization experts [1] Fernanda Viégas en Martin Wattenberg presented a tool which could produce a tag cloud from a person's edit history. Tag clouds were a novelty and very suitable for the matter at hand. You could see at a glance that editor Johanna Doe was mainly engaged in articles about say classic music, and Chinese and Iran politics, which is OK of course, but maybe better left to the person to disclose at her own discretion. We discussed implications of the visualization: on one hand this was all data from the public dumps, and anyone could make such a script once the idea spread, on the other hand would it be wise to help facilitate this process. I later found out they decided not to publish the tool for this very reason.
[1] See first two entries on http://infodisiac.com/Wikimedia/Visualizations/ Erik Zachte From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Fae Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2011 10:45 To: [email protected]; Research into Wikimedia content and communities Subject: Re: [Wiki-research-l] edit counts for specific users Hi, Please take care to stay within the policy stated at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Privacy_policy - if you are researching in general there is no issue but if you are analysing/data mining a specific editor's contributions it should be for a recognized bureaucratic purpose. Cheers, Fæ -- http://enwp.org/user_talk:fae _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
