On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 7:04 AM, Roan Kattouw <[email protected]> wrote:
> 2009/10/23 Robert Rohde <[email protected]>:
>> Given the fairly obvious utility for data mining, it might make sense
>> for someone to extend the Mediawiki API to generate a list of template
>> calls and the parameters sent in each case.
>>
> We had a discussion about this Tuesday in the tech staff meeting, and
> decided that we want to put this data mining possibility in core at
> some point (using a table like pagelinks to store these key/value
> pairs and modifying the parser). As you may understand this is not a
> very high priority project, and I don't know if any of the paid
> developers are gonna do it any time soon.

Out of curiousity, did you discuss internal uses for this?  The
biggest class of users would probably be external data miners, but I
suspect there might be some uses for such data within Mediawiki as
well, so I'm curious if you had some application(s) in mind.

-Robert Rohde

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