Re: Articles from country bot?

Okay Elias.

The goal for such a tool is this: a group of contributors to Wikipedia from
Ghana, wishes to know all articles that have been submitted by Ghanaians,
about Ghana or anything Ghana-related over a period of time (for instance,
within 5 years ago)

Thus, we hope we can scan through such list to know which article(s) to
improve and/or add images to. Contents relating to Ghana are scattered and
hard to locate by hand, I think. Using the country sorting way, we hope we
can pull all articles submitted from Ghana (perhaps using its IP), created
by a Ghanaian (person with Ghana badge on profile), and/or articles
categorized under Ghana.

In fact, I was thinking a tool of that sort existed. However, if not, I
think the suggestions aforementioned in this thread are good enough to help
us retrieve what we're looking for.

Thanks.

On Sunday, August 18, 2013, Elias Friedman wrote:

> 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]<javascript:;>>
> 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]<javascript:;>>
> 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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