FYI, a lot of the database tables are archived on
http://dumps.wikimedia.org -- see
http://dumps.wikimedia.org/enwiki/20111007/ for the latest dump. The
user table is private, but it doesn't seem like you need that. You're
looking for what people have publicly posted on their own user pages,
whic
- That example you posted isn't a list of all users, just ones who have
added "Babel" template to their userpages [1].
- That data is stored in the database, in the category and categorylinks
tables (possibly elsewhere, I can't remember offhand).
- I don't think the are sorted in an
On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 04:11:22PM -0400, Rami Al-Rfou' wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> So with more investigation I discovered that I can get a list of the users
> depending on their skill at a specific language. For example:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Category:User_zh-N
>
> It seems that
On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 7:11 AM, Rami Al-Rfou' wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> So with more investigation I discovered that I can get a list of the users
> depending on their skill at a specific language. For example:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Category:User_zh-N
>
> It seems that such list
Hi All,
So with more investigation I discovered that I can get a list of the users
depending on their skill at a specific language. For example:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Category:User_zh-N
It seems that such list is populated from a database. Does anyone know
where can I find su
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Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2011 9:29 PM
To: Research into Wikimedia content and communities
Cc: Yanqing Chen
Subject: [Wiki-research-l] Wikipedia Users database
Hi,
I am planning to study the difference in users edits style and their spelling
errors in English Wikipedia as part of a res
Hi,
I am planning to study the difference in users edits style and their
spelling errors in English Wikipedia as part of a research project I am
involved in.
So I downloaded some of the wikipedia XML partial dump and convert them to
SQL. My understanding that wikipedia stores every copy of the pa
