Wikipedia talk:List of Wikipedians by number of edits/How to generate the lists

What IDE is used in this example? I've changed the source code accordingly for my home wiki and I used MS-DOS as well as Linux but the command java -Xmx1500m -Dbegin.date=2008-11-01 -Dend.date=2008-11-30 -Dlimit=4000 WikipediansByNumberOfEdits_id idwiki-20081228-stub-meta-history.xml.gz idwiki-20081228-user_groups.sql.gz > result.txt doesn't work. The start date and end date is not set like the parameter, but rather today's date. It also gives this error:
 * WARNING: The specified file name -Xmx1500m does not start with 'idwiki'
 * WARNING: The specified file name -Dbegin.date=2008-11-01 does not start with 'idwiki'
 * java.io.FileNotFoundException: -Dbegin.date=2008-11-30 (The system cannot find the file specified)

Can anyone point me a working syntax for either MS-DOS or Linux? I tried Eclipse and Netbeans IDE, but they don't seem to have command line. Bennylin (talk) 14:15, 19 January 2009 (UTC)

Hello, Bennylin. I am sorry for the late reply.

This example does not use any IDE (Eclipse nor NetBeans), but uses GNOME Terminal and bash on Linux or cmd.exe on Windows. The above syntax is for MS-DOS (cmd.exe) and GNOME Terminal (bash).

It seems that,   and   are given to Java VM as program arguments, but they are not program arguments. On the other hand,  and   are the program arguments.

I recommend that you use a console environment (such as GNOME Terminal or cmd.exe) for running the programs, because output redirection is not available in IDE. If you use Eclipse for running the programs, I think that you need set  as "VM argument", and   and   as "environment variables", not as "program arguments".

IDE is useful for developing or compiling these programs. I also use Eclipse SDK for developing the programs.

You seemed to update [ the idwiki page] successfully. Did you solve your problem? Thank you. --AutumnSnow (talk) 09:02, 25 June 2011 (UTC)

Not Running
None of the programs is running on my PC. I've little knowledge of Java and I've properly installed Java setup on my PC and other simple programs are running. Please creator of these programs check these once again, the creator may be proficient in Java, but not everyone. Thank You. Rohit (talk) 12:34, 14 June 2009 (UTC)

Hello, Rohit. I am sorry for the late reply.

I am the creator of these programs. I checked the programs once again, but I found no errors. I could successfully compile and run them.

I do not know what is wrong with running the programs. Could you show us the error messages you get? Thank you. --AutumnSnow (talk) 09:02, 25 June 2011 (UTC)

Translation
Can this method be used to generate other wikipedias(Eg. Malayalam wikipedia) also? Adithyak1997 (talk) 18:14, 20 August 2018 (UTC)