Hello, Maybe this is related: on meta wiki we try to instigate a collection of information about the WM movement. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Chapters_Association/Research Kind regards Ziko
Am Mittwoch, 27. Februar 2013 schrieb Maria Miteva : > Hi everyone, > > I am working on creating a single entry page describing all the data about > Wikipedia and WMF projects available for researchers. The idea is to have a > single location, which introduces all possible source of data and makes it > easy for a newbie to understand what suits his/her needs and how to get and > work with the data. This is meant to be useful to the users ( which is > you), so I have a few questions to help me make it better: > > > 1. I was wondering if any of you has used data from sources other than > the listed below and if yes, what? • XML dumps > • the API > • the Toolserver (or it's future replacement on WMF Labs) > • our live IRC feeds > • our raw hourly pageview data dumps (and the rudimentary API that > you can use to query them atstats.grok.se) > • the sources listed on our (experimental) open data registry on the > DataHub http://datahub.io/group/wikimedia (includes DBpedia) > > 2. Is there any specific information that you wished you had known > when you started using WMF data but is not documented online? > 3. Do you have any datasets or tools for > parsing/manipulating/visualizing data, which you think can be reused and > you want to share? (Could be something you built or something you found and > liked) > 4. What information should be included about each source. I am > thinking about : > 1. description of the data - content, format , method of collection > or how you can collect it, how often it is collected, for what period > 2. skills required to get and work with the data ( PHP, SQL, etc.) > 3. short sample > 4. existing tools - for parsing, importing, etc. > 5. maybe examples of projects where it was used? > > Any other comments/suggestions will be appreciated. > > Thank you in advance. > > Mariya > > > >
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