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Experienced wikipedians have often a long list of created articles. But what do they know about those articles? How can they have some metrics or analytics to follow their collection of created articles?

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By using the xtoolsXTools pages -created API, I've developed a set of new tools to answer all those questions.<ref>https://observablehq.com/collection/@pac02/pages-created</ref>. All my tools are developed in [[JavaScript]] using the Observable platform. Observable is datavisualisatuon created by Melody Meckfessel and [[Mike Bostock]] which makes it very easy to design interactive tools.

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We can also gain insights about the content of our articles. The XTools page-prose API gives the number of words, references, unique references and sections in each article. So I've developed a notebook which computes this for all the articles created by a user.<ref>"Look at your list of created articles with the XTools Page Prose API": https://observablehq.com/@pac02/look-at-your-list-of-created-articles-with-the-xtools-page-ap</ref>

I'm not an experienced javascript developer. So all my tools are fragile. I can imagine that if you've created more than 2,000 articles, you may have a lot timeout errors. Last but not least, all my work is open source and anyone can improve it. And of course all your feedbacks are greatly appreciated.

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== References ==

My last tool collects data about the number of revisions, the number of editors, the number of pageviews and the number of watchers for all of a user's articles, using the XTools articleinfo API.<ref>Look at your list of created articles with the XTools Page ArticleInfo API: https://observablehq.com/@pac02/look-at-your-list-of-created-articles-with-the-xtools-page-ar</ref>

All my tools are developed in [[JavaScript]] using Observable (a data visualization platform created by Melody Meckfessel and [[Mike Bostock]]), which makes it very easy to design interactive tools. One shortcoming is that you may experience some timeout errors, since my tools rely on a high number of API calls. I can imagine that if you've created more than 2,000 articles, you may have a lot of timeout errors. And all my work is [[open source]] – so feel free to improve it and suggest better solutions. And, of course, all of your feedback is greatly appreciated.

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