Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2023-02-04/Tips and tricks
Data analytics for 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 datavisualization created by Melody Meckfessel and Mike Bostock which makes it very easy to design interactive tools.
At first, I was very curious about the gender distribution of people I've created a biographical article about. So I use the Wikidata API to get the value of the property sex or gender (P21) for all items corresponding to articles a user has created[5].
This tool can easily be extended to other Wikidata properties such as instance of (P31) and country (P17) and for humans country of citizenship (P27) and occupation (P106). This lead to another tool named "Look at your list of created articles through Wikidata".[7]
Another tool provides a map of your articles related to geolocated Wikidata items using property coordinate ___location (P625).[8]
We can also have insights about the content of our articles. 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.[10]
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.[12]
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. All my work is open source and anyone can improve it. And of course all your feedbacks are greatly appreciated.
References
- ^ https://xtools.wmflabs.org/pages/en.wikipedia.org/PAC2
- ^ https://pageviews.wmcloud.org/userviews/?project=en.wikipedia.org
- ^ https://observablehq.com/collection/@pac02/pages-created
- ^ Retrieved from https://observablehq.com/@pac02/user-level-gender-statistics-for-wikipedia on January 7, 2023
- ^ User-level gender statistics for Wikipedia: https://observablehq.com/@pac02/user-level-gender-statistics-for-wikipedia
- ^ retrieved from https://observablehq.com/@pac02/look-at-your-list-of-created-articles-through-wikidata on January 7, 2023
- ^ Look at your list of created articles through Wikidata: https://observablehq.com/@pac02/look-at-your-list-of-created-articles-through-wikidata
- ^ Map your list of created articles through Wikidata: https://observablehq.com/@pac02/map-your-list-of-created-articles-through-wikidata
- ^ retrieved from https://observablehq.com/@pac02/look-at-your-list-of-created-articles-with-the-xtools-page-ap on January 7, 2023
- ^ https://observablehq.com/@pac02/look-at-your-list-of-created-articles-with-the-xtools-page-ap
- ^ retrieved from https://observablehq.com/@pac02/look-at-your-list-of-created-articles-with-the-xtools-page-ar on January 7, 2023
- ^ 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