Wikipedia talk:Recent changes patrol/Archives/2009/July

General appeal
Hey all, can I just make an appeal for everyone to pause once in a while when they see something which might be plausible? Rather than just remove it, tag it as and maybe drop a note at a wikiproject page or something, and offer a friendly (maybe non-automated) note from time to time? There is a concern in numbers of new users coming through, and people here will come across many. Just trying to think how we can give a better first impression. cheers, Casliber (talk · contribs) 20:45, 17 July 2009 (UTC)

How many users are active? RC stats
I was wondering if it would be possible to count how many users are editing Wikipedia in a given timeperiod (let's say, an hour). Technically, the data is there - on Special:RecentChanges; the problem is that counting that manually is a daunting task. I was wondering if we already have a tool to compile such statistics, and if not, could such a tool be written? It would provide a very interesting statistic, an equivalent to "x users active at the same time" in MMORPGs (if we compare Wikipedia to Second Life, we have roughly the same amount of registered accounts, but it's much more difficult to compare user activity; such stat would help a lot). --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 22:03, 25 July 2009 (UTC)


 * A tool can be easily written to count actions by users via the IRC feed or the RSS feed.  Triplestop  x3  23:56, 25 July 2009 (UTC)


 * Could you write it? I am not good at coding anything serious. For now, I spend a good while doing manual counts for two minutes (spaced ~2 hours apart) at RC, and the counts were 103 and 99 different users (IPs included), respectively. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 05:01, 26 July 2009 (UTC)
 * There are some interesting things one could do with the data, the IP users could be plotted to a reverse geolocation world map or IPv4 Map. JOIN to the user_groups table would tell you which groups where the most active.  Some other things, you could see the namespace people worked in, the byte size of the comment they left, which tool they were using, the fastest in between saves, top patrollers, and of course the most edited pages.  It would really be cool if we got something like Digg lab's Stake demo for wikipedia, not sure how it would work, but it would be cool to see the Toolserver's realtime data being put to use.
 * Unfortunately, I am tied up too many of Toolserver projects so I can't do with it. — Dispenser 08:53, 26 July 2009 (UTC)


 * A useful tool has been designed, unfortunately I cannot credit it a person as I was informed of it by an anonymous editor (presumably a regular who was not logged in). Details at: User_talk:Piotrus. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 22:21, 26 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Demo which shows the known locations of edits from IPs over the last hour, mapped.   — Dispenser 18:13, 27 July 2009 (UTC)