Re: Articles from country bot?

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.


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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.
> >
> >
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