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Nkansah Rexford

Articles from country bot?

I wish to learn if there exist a bot or page can retrieve all pages ever
created from a particular country.

I order words, to know all pages from a particular country.

Any like that?

Thanks.
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Federico Leva (Nemo)

Re: Articles from country bot?

Nkansah Rexford, 17/08/2013 22:28:
> I wish to learn if there exist a bot or page can retrieve all pages ever
> created from a particular country.
>
> I order words, to know all pages from a particular country.
>
> Any like that?

What do you mean "created from", created by users in that country?

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Nkansah Rexford

Re: Articles from country bot?

Yes. Created by users from that country.

Thanks for the correction.
On Aug 17, 2013 9:20 PM, "Federico Leva (Nemo)" <[hidden email]> wrote:

> Nkansah Rexford, 17/08/2013 22:28:
>
>> I wish to learn if there exist a bot or page can retrieve all pages ever
>> created from a particular country.
>>
>> I order words, to know all pages from a particular country.
>>
>> Any like that?
>>
>
> What do you mean "created from", created by users in that country?
>
> Nemo
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Federico Leva (Nemo)

Re: Articles from country bot?

Nkansah Rexford, 17/08/2013 23:24:
> Yes. Created by users from that country.

Ok, so no we don't and it's not possible, except for unregistered users.
We have something for edits, though:
<http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/squids/SquidReportPageEditsPerLanguageBreakdown.htm>
It should be good enough if we assume that the proportion of edits which
are article creations doesn't differ hugely from country to country.
There's an ongoing discussion about producing more breakdowns of
aggregated data on editors at
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/analytics/2013-August/000857.html ,
if you're interested.

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Andrew Gray-3

Re: Articles from country bot?

Ultimately, the only thing we know about an article's creator is what that
creator has stated publicly. So for a given country, you *could* do
something for "created by self-described users from that country" by using,
eg,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedians_in_Singapore

and running the names through http://tools.wmflabs.org/xtools/pages/

It'll take some time and get you a list of pages, but it'll have some big
problems:

* it'll miss out all the users from Singapore who haven't publicised where
they're from
* it'll include articles they wrote when outside of Singapore
* it'll include articles by people who say they're in Singapore but aren't
really

So perhaps not a very useful list, all told...

Andrew.

On 18 August 2013 08:29, Federico Leva (Nemo) <[hidden email]> wrote:

> Nkansah Rexford, 17/08/2013 23:24:
>
> Yes. Created by users from that country.
>>
>
> Ok, so no we don't and it's not possible, except for unregistered users.
> We have something for edits, though: <http://stats.wikimedia.org/**
> wikimedia/squids/**SquidReportPageEditsPerLanguag**eBreakdown.htm<http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/squids/SquidReportPageEditsPerLanguageBreakdown.htm>>
> It should be good enough if we assume that the proportion of edits which
> are article creations doesn't differ hugely from country to country.
> There's an ongoing discussion about producing more breakdowns of
> aggregated data on editors at http://lists.wikimedia.org/**
> pipermail/analytics/2013-**August/000857.html<http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/analytics/2013-August/000857.html>, if you're interested.
>
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Ole Palnatoke Andersen-2

Re: Articles from country bot?

And it will need to be re-done periodically.

A tool to catch all edits by users in a category would be useful for some
other categories, though.

Regards,
Ole
Den 18/08/2013 15.42 skrev "Andrew Gray" <[hidden email]>:

> Ultimately, the only thing we know about an article's creator is what that
> creator has stated publicly. So for a given country, you *could* do
> something for "created by self-described users from that country" by using,
> eg,
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedians_in_Singapore
>
> and running the names through http://tools.wmflabs.org/xtools/pages/
>
> It'll take some time and get you a list of pages, but it'll have some big
> problems:
>
> * it'll miss out all the users from Singapore who haven't publicised where
> they're from
> * it'll include articles they wrote when outside of Singapore
> * it'll include articles by people who say they're in Singapore but aren't
> really
>
> So perhaps not a very useful list, all told...
>
> Andrew.
>
>
> On 18 August 2013 08:29, Federico Leva (Nemo) <[hidden email]> wrote:
>
> > Nkansah Rexford, 17/08/2013 23:24:
> >
> > Yes. Created by users from that country.
> >>
> >
> > Ok, so no we don't and it's not possible, except for unregistered users.
> > We have something for edits, though: <http://stats.wikimedia.org/**
> > wikimedia/squids/**SquidReportPageEditsPerLanguag**eBreakdown.htm<
> http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/squids/SquidReportPageEditsPerLanguageBreakdown.htm
> >>
> > It should be good enough if we assume that the proportion of edits which
> > are article creations doesn't differ hugely from country to country.
> > There's an ongoing discussion about producing more breakdowns of
> > aggregated data on editors at http://lists.wikimedia.org/**
> > pipermail/analytics/2013-**August/000857.html<
> http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/analytics/2013-August/000857.html>,
> if you're interested.
> >
> >
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Elias Friedman

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Rather than give these workarounds, it might be useful to know *why* you
want to know this information. That is, what is your end goal? We may be
able to suggest a better strategy if we know that.

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Nkansah Rexford

Re: Articles from country bot?

Okay Elias.

The goal for such a tool is this: a group of contributors to Wikipedia from
Ghana, wishes to know all articles that have been submitted by Ghanaians,
about Ghana or anything Ghana-related over a period of time (for instance,
within 5 years ago)

Thus, we hope we can scan through such list to know which article(s) to
improve and/or add images to. Contents relating to Ghana are scattered and
hard to locate by hand, I think. Using the country sorting way, we hope we
can pull all articles submitted from Ghana (perhaps using its IP), created
by a Ghanaian (person with Ghana badge on profile), and/or articles
categorized under Ghana.

In fact, I was thinking a tool of that sort existed. However, if not, I
think the suggestions aforementioned in this thread are good enough to help
us retrieve what we're looking for.

Thanks.

On Sunday, August 18, 2013, Elias Friedman wrote:

> Rather than give these workarounds, it might be useful to know *why* you
> want to know this information. That is, what is your end goal? We may be
> able to suggest a better strategy if we know that.
>
>
> Sent from my Droid 4
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> On Aug 18, 2013 9:42 AM, "Andrew Gray" <[hidden email]<javascript:;>>
> wrote:
>
> > Ultimately, the only thing we know about an article's creator is what
> that
> > creator has stated publicly. So for a given country, you *could* do
> > something for "created by self-described users from that country" by
> using,
> > eg,
> >
> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedians_in_Singapore
> >
> > and running the names through http://tools.wmflabs.org/xtools/pages/
> >
> > It'll take some time and get you a list of pages, but it'll have some big
> > problems:
> >
> > * it'll miss out all the users from Singapore who haven't publicised
> where
> > they're from
> > * it'll include articles they wrote when outside of Singapore
> > * it'll include articles by people who say they're in Singapore but
> aren't
> > really
> >
> > So perhaps not a very useful list, all told...
> >
> > Andrew.
> >
> >
> > On 18 August 2013 08:29, Federico Leva (Nemo) <[hidden email]<javascript:;>>
> wrote:
> >
> > > Nkansah Rexford, 17/08/2013 23:24:
> > >
> > > Yes. Created by users from that country.
> > >>
> > >
> > > Ok, so no we don't and it's not possible, except for unregistered
> users.
> > > We have something for edits, though: <http://stats.wikimedia.org/**
> > > wikimedia/squids/**SquidReportPageEditsPerLanguag**eBreakdown.htm<
> >
> http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/squids/SquidReportPageEditsPerLanguageBreakdown.htm
> > >>
> > > It should be good enough if we assume that the proportion of edits
> which
> > > are article creations doesn't differ hugely from country to country.
> > > There's an ongoing discussion about producing more breakdowns of
> > > aggregated data on editors at http://lists.wikimedia.org/**
> > > pipermail/analytics/2013-**August/000857.html<
> > http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/analytics/2013-August/000857.html>,
> > if you're interested.
> > >
> > >
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Nkansah Rexford

Re: Articles from country bot?

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I think I found something similar to what I'm looking for

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Ghana_stubs

Thanks.
On Aug 18, 2013 3:51 PM, "Elias Friedman" <[hidden email]> wrote:

> Rather than give these workarounds, it might be useful to know *why* you
> want to know this information. That is, what is your end goal? We may be
> able to suggest a better strategy if we know that.
>
>
> Sent from my Droid 4
> Elias Friedman A.S., CCEMT-P
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> On Aug 18, 2013 9:42 AM, "Andrew Gray" <[hidden email]> wrote:
>
> > Ultimately, the only thing we know about an article's creator is what
> that
> > creator has stated publicly. So for a given country, you *could* do
> > something for "created by self-described users from that country" by
> using,
> > eg,
> >
> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedians_in_Singapore
> >
> > and running the names through http://tools.wmflabs.org/xtools/pages/
> >
> > It'll take some time and get you a list of pages, but it'll have some big
> > problems:
> >
> > * it'll miss out all the users from Singapore who haven't publicised
> where
> > they're from
> > * it'll include articles they wrote when outside of Singapore
> > * it'll include articles by people who say they're in Singapore but
> aren't
> > really
> >
> > So perhaps not a very useful list, all told...
> >
> > Andrew.
> >
> >
> > On 18 August 2013 08:29, Federico Leva (Nemo) <[hidden email]>
> wrote:
> >
> > > Nkansah Rexford, 17/08/2013 23:24:
> > >
> > > Yes. Created by users from that country.
> > >>
> > >
> > > Ok, so no we don't and it's not possible, except for unregistered
> users.
> > > We have something for edits, though: <http://stats.wikimedia.org/**
> > > wikimedia/squids/**SquidReportPageEditsPerLanguag**eBreakdown.htm<
> >
> http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/squids/SquidReportPageEditsPerLanguageBreakdown.htm
> > >>
> > > It should be good enough if we assume that the proportion of edits
> which
> > > are article creations doesn't differ hugely from country to country.
> > > There's an ongoing discussion about producing more breakdowns of
> > > aggregated data on editors at http://lists.wikimedia.org/**
> > > pipermail/analytics/2013-**August/000857.html<
> > http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/analytics/2013-August/000857.html>,
> > if you're interested.
> > >
> > >
> > > Nemo
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> > >
> >
> >
> >
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