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I noticed a couple weird things about this report. First,
HTML5 (the article) is listed. There is no
Wikipedia:WikiProject HTML5 and as far as I can tell there is no category or other aspect of that page that would lead it to be confused for one.
Second, one of the most active (and most watched) WikiProjects, WikiProject Medicine, is not listed at all. I suspect this is because it is not in
Category:Active WikiProjects, while others that I sampled are. Is that category utilized with regard to specific levels of activity or participation required? --
Ryan (Wiki Ed) (
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16:33, 16 June 2015 (UTC)reply
I've made a note that the information is flawed on the article page. Hopefully the bug will be fixed before the next report. If not, someone can always note it again. --
RexxS (
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20:50, 17 June 2015 (UTC)reply
I will look into how the list is composed. In the meantime, the numeric data itself should be fine, since it's just pulled directly from the Wikipedia API.
The source code is
on GitHub. The part that generates the list of pages depends a lot on English Wikipedia specific stuff but the number of people watching a page can be retrieved through the API,
as so.
Harej (
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06:19, 18 June 2015 (UTC)reply
Active watchers again
Would it be possible to list active watchers like it used to? The "raw" watchers number is misleading if many are inactive/retired users, particularly for projects with a long history, their "raw" number would tend to include many inactive editors.
Roger (Dodger67) (
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19:20, 18 June 2015 (UTC)reply
Roger (Dodger67), I'm glad you asked! I too want listings of active users, but the API only gives the total count without any way to cross-reference with some active user list. I think the way it worked in the Toolserver days was that users had access to the full watchlist table—including usernames—and were sworn on their honor not to leak usernames, but could still analyze the information for active user status.
MZMcBride, do you have any more insight? In any case, unfortunately it is not yet possible to list active watchers.
Harej (
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20:58, 18 June 2015 (UTC)reply
Harej Please check the counts of watchers. The wiki article on HTML5 has 500 watchers whereas the project page you link has almost none. I think it is the wiki article which is being considered here. Or do you see something else? Or am I mistaken?
Blue Rasberry (talk)21:51, 25 July 2016 (UTC)reply
@
Harej: Looks like it's not coming from the project index, but from
this query. The issue was that the query selects pages in the WP namespace but doesn't add "Wikipedia:" to their titles. Should be fixed now. I am looking into the missing WP Medicine. —
Earwigtalk23:37, 25 July 2016 (UTC)reply
Template using these data for use on project pages?
I think it would be cool to have a template badge for WikiProject pages that dynamically posted the WikiProject's ranking from this report. For example, it could say "
WikiProject Plants is the 46th most watched WikiProject on Wikipedia, with 333 watchers!" Is that possible to do? --
Nessie (
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02:07, 4 September 2019 (UTC)reply