Rather than give these workarounds, it might be useful to know *why* you want to know this information. That is, what is your end goal? We may be able to suggest a better strategy if we know that.
Sent from my Droid 4 Elias Friedman A.S., CCEMT-P אליהו מתתיהו בן צבי [email protected] "יְהִי אוֹר" On Aug 18, 2013 9:42 AM, "Andrew Gray" <[email protected]> wrote: > Ultimately, the only thing we know about an article's creator is what that > creator has stated publicly. So for a given country, you *could* do > something for "created by self-described users from that country" by using, > eg, > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedians_in_Singapore > > and running the names through http://tools.wmflabs.org/xtools/pages/ > > It'll take some time and get you a list of pages, but it'll have some big > problems: > > * it'll miss out all the users from Singapore who haven't publicised where > they're from > * it'll include articles they wrote when outside of Singapore > * it'll include articles by people who say they're in Singapore but aren't > really > > So perhaps not a very useful list, all told... > > Andrew. > > > On 18 August 2013 08:29, Federico Leva (Nemo) <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Nkansah Rexford, 17/08/2013 23:24: > > > > Yes. Created by users from that country. > >> > > > > Ok, so no we don't and it's not possible, except for unregistered users. > > We have something for edits, though: <http://stats.wikimedia.org/** > > wikimedia/squids/**SquidReportPageEditsPerLanguag**eBreakdown.htm< > http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/squids/SquidReportPageEditsPerLanguageBreakdown.htm > >> > > It should be good enough if we assume that the proportion of edits which > > are article creations doesn't differ hugely from country to country. > > There's an ongoing discussion about producing more breakdowns of > > aggregated data on editors at http://lists.wikimedia.org/** > > pipermail/analytics/2013-**August/000857.html< > http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/analytics/2013-August/000857.html>, > if you're interested. > > > > > > Nemo > > > > ______________________________**_________________ > > Wikipedia-l mailing list > > [email protected].**org <[email protected]> > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/**mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-l< > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-l> > > > > > > -- > - Andrew Gray > [email protected] > _______________________________________________ > Wikipedia-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-l > _______________________________________________ Wikipedia-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-l
