User talk:LArron
Yes, this is the right place to ask for a graph, an update or a statistic about Conservapedia, RationalWiki, etc.
[edit] Hey…
Is there anything with which I could help out, like, with graphs and stars and RW:AU and shit? I mean, I can't guarantee I'll have the software, the time, or even the knowledge of how to do any of it, but still. THE GREAT RIGHTEØUS DESTRØYER Dancing on the corpses' ashes
13:17, 3 September 2014 (UTC)
Thank you very much! Please, have a look at RationalWiki_talk:Active_users#June.2C_July_and_August.... --larron (talk) 06:11, 5 September 2014 (UTC)
- So, like… what do I do? I don't understand. So, do I need some form of programme, or HTML skills, or…? MESSIAH OF DOOM Unite with thy oracle
11:14, 5 September 2014 (UTC)
[edit] *prods body* Are you still alive?
In the remote chance of you having subscribed to changes to this page via email, there is an argument about user activity at the Saloon Bar, including attempts to quantify it. Your input will be appreciated. And I will appreciate if you bequeath to me the Perl routines used to populate RW:AU, or at least some pointers on how exactly you pulled the data (the idea is to have consistent results by using the same method).--ZooGuard (talk) 13:04, 1 February 2015 (UTC)
- If LArron gets these messages and hands over his Perls, it'd be useful if we put them somewhere that all RationalWikians could access, so that it never happens again that nobody has the codes to update that page. oʇɐʇoԀʇɐϽʎzznℲ (talk/stalk) 14:22, 1 February 2015 (UTC)
Thanks for stopping by!
One of the reasons for not updating RW:AU is that I grew more and more unsatisfied with my way of gathering the data: I adopted the page in 2008 after User:Genghis_Khant had abandoned it, and back then, I used some scripts which I had mainly developed for Conservapedia, but used for other wikis, too. The approach is editor-based and works as follows:
- Look up current blocks
- Look up user groups
- Look up list of users
- For users whose edit numbers have changed since the last time, look up edit list
This approach has a great flaw when it comes to RationalWiki: it doesn't take into account anonymous edits! AFAIR, another RWian went via the list of pages, which includes anonymous accounts - a superior way. But this is unnecessary for RationalWiki, as we have the nifty active user list.
So, I mulled over redoing it, and it should be redone: now is the time! F*ck consistency, improve the procedure, and thank you, ZooGuard, for doing so!
And now my rant as an oldtimer (funny, I'm so old, I always thought of me as coming late to the party, joining RW only in 2008...):
I'm missing innovations. There was a time when new features popped up, sometimes obnoxious (liquid threads), but often eye-candy, while on other wikis, the time stood still. And now? We should have a mobile version. We should have an app: a simple version could just give you WIGO:CLOGS, WIGO:BLOGS, etc., and allow you to vote and keep you updated - it would instantly be better than Larry Sanger's infobitt!
At the moment, we are falling behind the times. Our voting pages are seven years old, they were fun at that time, but now they seem awfully static. And they have so much potential!
--larron (talk) 17:15, 1 February 2015 (UTC)