Lars Aronsson wrote: > ==Watch a category of articles== > 2010 is election year in Sweden, so I want to keep an eye on all > articles in category:Swedish politicians, in recursive levels. > > I now do this on a weekly basis, using CatScan, > http://toolserver.org/~daniel/WikiSense/CategoryIntersect.php > > I set wiki = sv.wikipedia.org > search in category = svenska politiker > with depth = 7 > for changes in last 168 hours (= 7 x 24 = one week) > save as CSV format > > I then filter the output using the UNIX command line > awk '$1==0 {print $2}'|sort|uniq -c|sort -nr > > to get a listing of which articles got the most edits. > > It would be nice to intersect this search with category:Living > people, so dead politicians are filtered out. > > Are there already any smarter tools to do this?
Watching articles in a given category wouldn't be too hard. OTOH, recursion and intersection have the problems that have been discussed many times. > ==Watch a local community== > For a local history project, I want to involve users close to me. > These are found in category:Users in (my home town). From that > category I can view "related changes", but that only covers > changes to their user pages. I want to see contributions made by > this group of users. Are there any tools for this? > > If contributions to sv.wikipedia and Wikimedia commons could be > combined in one list, that would be all the better. Viewing contributions made by a group (with the option of importing from a category) look appropiate for a TS tool. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
