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[[mw:XTools|Xtools]] provides some insights about your list of created articles<ref>https://xtools.wmflabs.org/pages/en.wikipedia.org/PAC2</ref>. Pageviews provides a userviews tabset with 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? Which is the main occupation of people I've written about? Where are located the places for which I've created an article? And if we come to the content of the articles. Which of my articles is the longest one? Which one has the largest number of references?

By using the xtools 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 datavisualization created by Melody Meckfessel and [[Mike Bostock]] which makes it very easy to design interactive tools.

[[File:Gender distribution of articles created by PAC2.jpg|thumb|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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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 articles a user has created using 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 fragiledeveloped in [[JavaScript]] using the Observable platform. Observable is datavisualization 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 timeout errors. All my work is [[open source]] and anyone can improve it. And of course all your feedbacks are greatly appreciated.

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