Six things
edit- Wikipedia:Multilingual_coordination
- Wikistats language list: How best to encourage that this page be updated?
- Try asking Erik Zachte (done)
- Combined recent changes -- are there little tools for tracking recent changes or watchlists across multiple WP languages?
- Unfortunately not. Maybe one day. People have certainly suggested it in the past.
- Stats queries -- is there a place to request further stats queries? For instance, "Articles edited by more than 10 non-bot users", "Articles present in more than 3 languages", &c.
- Wikipedia:Scripting requests (first 2 requested)
- List of non-transient users -- is there some way to see a list of users with a) a user-page or b) more than a few edits? The bulk of non-contributing users makes using the Users special page difficult.
- I expect it's possible with some SQL query requests but you'd need to convince a developer to run it as it would likely be quite database intensive. (x)
- New bot action -- Is there a place to request a new bot / bot features? There are a number of specific regexp search-and-replaces I would suggest.
- The people who run PyWikipediaBot would be the best people to ask. PyWikipediaBot is the closest thing we have to an "official Wikipedia bot". They have a mailing list you could ask on. (on hold)
Hope that helps. Angela. 23:58, Mar 14, 2004 (UTC) (Yes(x6). Thank you. +sj+)
Cute links
edit[W'pedia Stats] .'. via Optim, Maveric149 and Tim Starling user pages, various hidden utility pages like All messages and Special:Allpages (a month out of date). also Dan Keshet! Hi, Daniel. ..
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editShortcuts/Overviews? Stats?
editUpdated: +sj+ 04:00, 2004 Jan 28 (UTC)
- Is there a list of shortcuts somewhere? Thanks again. The idea of 'welcomers' is perfect.
- Is there some way to see "recent changes" to content articles, and not to personal pages, user-talk pages, etc? Any other way to make "recent changes" more useful? I really do want to see "recent changes to highest-level pages", or some daily statistics about activity, broken down by {main-page category, level of importance of active page, activity level} and noting the {number of different editors, number of non-minor edits}... at what level would such a change be implemented? At the feature-request-on-Sourceforge level?
- (Having a good "recent changes" page seems better for a system like this than getting everyone to use "Watch this page" extensively, since you can update "recent changes" once a minute and be guaranteed of only 1440
sets of queries a day; queries that cover a full day of changes might only be updated once an hour.)
- Try Sourceforge [or IRC --Ed].
Neat. I did find an overall [stats page]... +sj+ 04:00, 2004 Jan 28 (UTC)
Other 'pedias, translation
edit- What's wikipedia's relation to other 'pedias? Is there a policy of forming useful relations or alliances that might eventually turn into copyright transfer?
- What's up with nunupedia? I know there's a close relation b/t these projects, and that nupedia hardly exists as a 'pedia, but more as a software dev project these days... how is its software related to wikipedia's ware?
- I don't know. Also try joining a [[Wikipedia:Mailing_lists] list. - UtherSRG 03:07, 28 Jan 2004 (UTC)
- How does multilingual association work? Who identifies an english page with a german page, for instance? What's the right way to say two pages aren't quite referring to the same thing? To suggest someone migrate/merge content from one language to the page in a different language? How can I find, say, a list of German pages which have no English counterpart?
- manually, some folks use IRC and bots to do a bunch of it. Try Wikipedia:IRC_channel. - UtherSRG 28 Jan 2004 (UTC)
- How does "opentask" get generated? Where can I go to find such technical details?
- See Wikipedia:MediaWiki custom messages for details. UtherSRG 03:07, 28 Jan 2004 (UTC)
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