Platonides at gmail
Nov 3, 2009, 10:49 AM
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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.
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