Yes, this is clearly something that needs to be done :-) Would it be best to have a drop down that lets you select the project? I think jumbling them all together would make things a bit less interesting.
//Ed On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 10:51 AM, Erik Zachte <[email protected]> wrote: > Awesome! > > Followed by the obligatory "Could you please also ...." ;-) > > In this case the dots stand for "add pages other Wikipedia wikis, ideally > also for other sister projects?" > All data are in the same file you use already. > > Best, Erik Zachte > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] 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, 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 available [1]. If > you hover over the article you should get the article summary (courtesy of > the MediaWiki API), and there are canned search links of realtime Google and > Twitter and Facebook search if you want to look at what people might be > saying about the topic. > > I put the code up on Github [2] and wrote a brief blog entry about the > process of putting the app together. The punchline that I was trying to work > up to is that it is truly wonderful that Wikimedia makes an effort to make > its data assets available on the Web, both via an API and as bulk downloads. > It is a great role model for other organizations and institutions. > > Thanks! > //Ed > > [1] http://dumps.wikimedia.org/other/pagecounts-raw/ > [2] http://inkdroid.org/edsu/wikitrends/ > [3] http://inkdroid.org/journal/2012/02/21/nodb/ > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
