Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2023-02-04/Tips and tricks
Tools to analyse your list of created articles.
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?
xtools provides some insights about your list of created articles[1]. Pageviews provides a userviews tabset with the number of pageviews for each article created by a user[2]. 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[3]. 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. 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.
At first, I was very curious about the gender distribution of people I've created a biographical article about. So my tools use the Wikidata API to get the value of the property P21 "Sex or gender" for all items corresponding to articles a user has created.