Re: [Wiki-research-l] Polling the watcher's of a page. Possible?

2014-01-01 Thread WereSpielChequers
gt; > -- > *From:* wiki-research-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org < > wiki-research-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org> on behalf of > WereSpielChequers > *Sent:* Tuesday, December 31, 2013 4:31 AM > *To:* Research into Wikimedia content and communitie

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Polling the watcher's of a page. Possible?

2014-01-01 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Why does it matter who has the page on watchlist? One can also get the "contagion" looking at recent changes or stumbling upon the change while reading the page, or while looking at a subsequent diff e.g. by a vandal. Also, unless you plan to try a contagion yourself (not a good idea), you'll b

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Polling the watcher's of a page. Possible?

2013-12-31 Thread Klein,Max
From: wiki-research-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org on behalf of WereSpielChequers Sent: Tuesday, December 31, 2013 4:31 AM To: Research into Wikimedia content and communities Subject: Re: [Wiki-research-l] Polling the watcher's of a page. Possible? How many watchlisters a page has is a

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Polling the watcher's of a page. Possible?

2013-12-31 Thread WereSpielChequers
history as a proxy for watchlists. >> >> >> >> Kerry >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> >> *From:* wiki-research-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto: >> wiki-research-l-boun...@li

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Polling the watcher's of a page. Possible?

2013-12-30 Thread Brian Keegan
dit > history as a proxy for watchlists. > > > > Kerry > > > > > > > > > -- > > *From:* wiki-research-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto: > wiki-research-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] *On Behalf Of *Klein,Max > *

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Polling the watcher's of a page. Possible?

2013-12-30 Thread Kerry Raymond
13 2:26 PM To: wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: [Wiki-research-l] Polling the watcher's of a page. Possible? Hello Research, It it possible to query for the watchers of a page? It does not seem to be in the API, nor is the "watchers" or "wl_user" table in

[Wiki-research-l] Polling the watcher's of a page. Possible?

2013-12-30 Thread Klein,Max
Hello Research, It it possible to query for the watchers of a page? It does not seem to be in the API, nor is the "watchers" or "wl_user" table in the Data Base replicas (where I thought MediaWiki stores it. I imagine this is for privacy reasons, correct? If so, how would one gain access? I ha