History: XML dumps and research needs for WMF projects
Preview of version: 1
- Session time: Thursday, July 8, 2010, 9 AM
- Facilitator: Ariel Glenn
- Participants: Kevin Crowston, Victor Grishchenko, Daniel Kinzlerm Roan Kattouw, Andreea Gorbatai
Discussion topics:
- Proposals for new information in the XML dumps, for various ways to segment the dumps into smaller chunks or produce samples
- Types of usage statistics people want to see produced, navigation path statistics
- Proposal to collect and provide search terms from Lucene and Google searches, track search successes and failures
- Shared researcher collaboration and computing platform for sharing dumps, samples, tools, research results and for providing disk space and computing power
There will be a wiki page at www.mediawiki.org
, see the user page User:ArielGlenn there for a link.