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Tools to analyse your list of created articles.

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

xtools[[mw:XTools|XTools]] provides some insights about yourthe list of articles created articlesby (a user<ref>https://xtools.wmflabs.org/pages/en.wikipedia.org/PAC2)</ref>. The Pageviews API provides a userviewsway tabsetto withget the number of pageviews for each article created by a user (<ref>https://pageviews.wmcloud.org/userviews/?project=en.wikipedia.org)</ref>. But what about the gender distribution of the biographies I've created? WhichWhat is the main occupation of people I've written about? Where are located the places located for which I've created an article? And if we come to the content of the articles.: Which of my articleswhich is the longest one? Which one has the largest number ofmost references?

By using the xtoolsXTools pages -created API, I've developed a set of new tools to answer all those questions.<ref>https://observablehq.com/@pac02collection/user-level-gender-statistics-for-wikipedia?collection=@pac02/pages-created</ref>.

[[File:Gender distribution of articles created by PAC2.jpg|thumb|Screenshot of "User-level gender statistics for Wikipedia": Gender distribution of articles I've created in Wikipedia in French<ref>Retrieved from https://observablehq.com/@pac02/user-level-gender-statistics-for-wikipedia on January 7, 2023</ref>]]

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At first, I was very curious about the gender distribution of people I've created a biographical article about. So I've used the Wikidata API to get the value of the property {{Wikidata property link|P21}} for all items corresponding to articles a user has created. This first tool is named "User-level gender statistics for Wikipedia".<ref>User-level gender statistics for Wikipedia: https://observablehq.com/@pac02/user-level-gender-statistics-for-wikipedia</ref>

[[File:Graph of articles created by PAC2 by instance of.jpg|thumb|Screenshot of "Look at your list of created articles through Wikidata": Distribution of articles I've created in Wikipedia in French by {{Wikidata property link|P31}}.<ref>retrieved from https://observablehq.com/@pac02/look-at-your-list-of-created-articles-through-wikidata on January 7, 2023</ref>|left]]

This tool can easily be extended to other Wikidata properties such as {{Wikidata property link|P31}} and {{Wikidata property link|P17}} (and for humans, {{Wikidata property link|P27}} and {{Wikidata property link|P106}}). This led to another tool named "Look at your list of created articles through Wikidata".<ref>Look at your list of created articles through Wikidata: https://observablehq.com/@pac02/look-at-your-list-of-created-articles-through-wikidata</ref>

Another tool provides a map of your articles related to geolocated Wikidata items, using property {{Wikidata property link|P625}}.<ref>Map your list of created articles through Wikidata: https://observablehq.com/@pac02/map-your-list-of-created-articles-through-wikidata</ref>

[[File:Graph of the number of words and number of references in articles created by PAC2.jpg|thumb|Screenshot of "Look at your list of created articles with the XTools Page Prose API": List of articles I've created in Wikipedia in English sorted by number of words and by number of references<ref>retrieved from https://observablehq.com/@pac02/look-at-your-list-of-created-articles-with-the-xtools-page-ap on January 7, 2023</ref>]]

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>

[[File:Insights from PAC2's list of created articles through articleinfo API.jpg|thumb|Screenshot of "Look at your list of created articles with the XTools Page ArticleInfo API": List of articles I've created in Wikipedia in English sorted by number of revisions and by number of editors.<ref>retrieved from https://observablehq.com/@pac02/look-at-your-list-of-created-articles-with-the-xtools-page-ar on January 7, 2023</ref>|left]]

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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