Re: [Wiki-research-l] Inventory of articles with video?

2013-01-22 Thread Andrew Lih
Thanks Ward -- very useful! It would be interesting to run it again on a recent dump and to find whether certain categories are getting better video treatment, though the set Fascinating that in about 2.5 years, the number of videos in that category has not changed much. By coincidence, I was

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Inventory of articles with video?

2013-01-22 Thread Ward Cunningham
On Jan 22, 2013, at 8:00 AM, Andrew Lih wrote: Thanks Ward -- very useful! It would be interesting to run it again on a recent dump and to find whether certain categories are getting better video treatment, though the set Will do. I wonder if we could get some students to check my results

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Inventory of articles with video?

2013-01-22 Thread Laura Hale
I don't know that I add that category when I do add videos to articles myself. One solution would be to narrow a scope to a select list of articles around a topic/wikiproject like Roads, Sports, medicine, and then conduct a search for .ogv, .ogg. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netball ,

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Inventory of articles with video?

2013-01-22 Thread Ward Cunningham
Laura -- If there are extra fields I should capture from the article's markup, I'm happy to add them to my results. I'm 2.6 million articles through the parse of the jan 2 dump. I've found close to 3000 videos so far. My parse is running at 6mb per second. I have to run to the train station to

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Inventory of articles with video?

2013-01-22 Thread Laura Hale
On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 6:32 PM, Ward Cunningham w...@c2.com wrote: Laura -- If there are extra fields I should capture from the article's markup, I'm happy to add them to my results. My understanding is that the only real video file format that works on Commons is .ogg (and .ogv), but you

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Inventory of articles with video?

2013-01-22 Thread Ward Cunningham
On Jan 22, 2013, at 9:54 AM, Laura Hale wrote: I tend to create project by project lists so I can do comparisons as I'm less interested in the actual total volume, and more interested in seeing how things differ from one group to another. Me too. Curiosity. On this list a few months ago

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Inventory of articles with video?

2013-01-22 Thread Laura Hale
On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 7:07 PM, Ward Cunningham w...@c2.com wrote: Me too. Curiosity. On this list a few months ago I suggested that we should use wiki to study wiki. I'm developing such a wiki, where one can create and share results minded from recent dumps. My method excels where