Example of growth trend (in percentage) for two wikis over 4 months:
- population (blue solid)
- pages (purple dashed)
- edits (yellow dotted)
WikiTracer is a web service providing platform-independent
analytics and
comparative growth statistics for wikis. (
read more)
Before a beta is publicly released,
we need to hear from you in order to define the data format used by this service to support the largest possible number of wiki platforms. This is a place to discuss the
open format specification that will be used by
WikiTracer plugins: feel free to
register a user account to be able to contribute!
The
initial implementation (v0.3) will include a number of simple metrics that should not be particularly demanding to extract from client wikis. More
fine-grained indicators (such as the distribution of
edits per user) are more computationally demanding and will need to be carefully reviewed before inclusion in the specifications.
- Plugin data format: WTPluginDraft
- Data available in supported engines:
- More:
- WantedData: make your suggestions on how to improve the data format with new indicators.
- Suggestions: random feedback is welcome here
The
WikiTracer idea was originally introduced in an OpenSpace session at
WikiSym 2008.

Thanks to the developers of
DokuWiki, MediaWiki, Oddmuse, TikiWiki, TWiki, WackoWiki, WikkaWiki, XWiki for joining us!
- Centre for HCI Design
City University, London, Jun 12, 2009
- Nature Publishing Group
London, Feb 24, 2009
- PATRES workshop
Bad Schandau, Oct 15, 2008
- London Wiki Wednesdays
London, Oct 1, 2008
- WikiSym 2008
Porto, Sep 10, 2008
Currently supported engines:
- Roth, C., Taraborelli, D., Gilbert, N. (2008) Démographie des communautés en ligne: le cas des wikis (Demographics of online communities: The case of wikis), Réseaux, 26 (152) 2008, 205-240 doi pdf
- Roth, C., Taraborelli, D., Gilbert, N. (2008) Measuring wiki viability. An empirical assessment of the social dynamics of a large sample of wikis. Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Wikis - WikiSym 2008, New York, NY: ACM Press. pdf
- Taraborelli, D., Roth, C., Gilbert, N. (2008) Measuring wiki viability (II). Towards a standard framework for tracking content-based online communities. pdf (white paper)
- Roth, C. (2007). Viable wikis: struggle for life in the wikisphere. Proceedings of the 3rd international symposium on Wikis - WikiSym 2007, 119-124, New York, NY: ACM Press. doi pdf
Questions? Doubts? Ideas?
Feedback is welcome:
info [at] wikitracer [dot] com
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