Growth trend charts
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!
Specifications
The initial implementation (v0.4) 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
WikiTracer at WikiSym 08
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!
Presentations
- 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
Plugins
Currently supported engines:References
- 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
External links
- Social Text: Wiki Analytics
- Social Text: Wiki Metrics
- Wikipatterns
- Slashdot: How Can You Measure a Wiki's Worth?
- Wikipedia statistics
- Sonivis documentation - specifications for several metrics relevant to wiki analysis
- Wiki Science @wikibooks.org.
- Wiki Creativity Index
Community
If you wish to contribute to WikiTracer or learn more about this service, you can join the wikitracer-community mailing-list or connect to our IRC channel on freenode.net.Sponsors
Contact
Questions? Doubts? Ideas?Feedback is welcome: info '[at]' wikitracer '[dot]' com
Wiki help
This wiki is powered by WikkaWiki. To edit this wiki you need to register a username. Check out the wiki editing guide and play in the SandBox to familiarize with this wiki. Full documentation is available on the Wikka Documentation Server.Header image: Berlin Balloon Race from the Bain Collection, 1908, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Collections (src). Believed to be in the public domain.
Does the WikiTracer service even exist yet, or is it merely planned? I can find some proposed data formats, but no description of an actual API (RESTful or not) either.
It's all a great idea, but I see no practical information on where to go from here or what to do to implement this for my wiki, or how/where to register as a wiki owner.
Before the service can be launched (which means defining the DB layout), the specifications must be defined. This is a process for which we wish to have the largest possible feedback from the wiki developer community.
So, bear with us until there is an agreement on the first version of the specs so we can actually start offering the service much as we do for Flickr groups.
I assume this wiki will be at least "accessible" to as members of teh respective wiki development teams.
I just found it's linked to from here: http://www.wikisym.org/ws2008/index.php/WikiTracer:_mapping_the_wikisphere (a link back in the references might be useful and clarify more of the context for this page). That makes this page public enough.
And how are you going to accomplish agreement on the first version of the specs without actually involving the development teams of wiki engines? The page that links here says "We need to hear from you" - the way that is formulated does not limit it to team leads or only those present at WikiSym. It does sound like "general public" to the extent they are interested enough to actually want to contribute.
If you want to provide a useful (commercial?) service, I would urge you to actually involve the potential audience for that service - starting with development teams, but ultimately (soon) wiki admins, too.
--Brian