Piotr, Wow, the takeaway for me after reading your mail is that you have managed to get a research budget. Congratulations! Good luck with your research - it sounds like a worthwhile thing to study. Jane
2013/6/1, Piotr Konieczny <[email protected]>: > Dear all, > > I am trying to gather some data for a new paper, but I wonder if there > is a more efficient way of doing so than by using Wikipedia Special:Contribs > I have a list of editors, whose edits I'd like to analyze and get > numbers on their contributions by mainspace, and to specific groups of > pages (such as Wikipedia:Arbitration and its subpages, for example). In > other words, for a defined group of users, I would like to know if they > have ever contributed to an arbitration page, and if they did, how many > edits did they make. > > I am assuming this wouldn't be that difficult for somebody who knows how > to run the queries on the Wikipedia database, but I have never been able > to develop enough of a coding skill to do so. Still, if people could > direct me to a page with instructions on how to run a database query, > perhaps I can try to learn. THat is, if they have been made more non-CS > person friendly, as two or so years ago when I last research this topic > they were, IMHO, still beyond the means of a non-coder to deal with. > > Alternatively, I can consider paying someone to run a number of such > queries for me, since I now even have a real research budget :) > > -- > Piotr Konieczny, PhD > http://hanyang.academia.edu/PiotrKonieczny > http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=gdV8_AEAAAAJ > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Piotrus > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
