Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia Signpost/2011-07-25/Recent research

• Re speedy deletion tag: this article should not be deleted, since it is due to be published in two days' time as part of The Signpost. Tony (talk) 12:59, 23 July 2011 (UTC)

• The quoted tweet is at http://twitter.com/sharingnicely/status/86409043664584704. Incorporate in references? --Mortense (talk) 23:58, 25 July 2011 (UTC)
• Is anybody maintaining a database (or at lease a bibliography) we can access, of all those theses and peer-reviewed articles? --Orange Mike | Talk 14:26, 26 July 2011 (UTC)
  • We are using a reference manager to track these papers internally at WMF and there's a public repository of scholarly Wikipedia research on this page. Current research projects (in particular internal research) are tracked on the research index on Meta. We're actually planning to have a dedicated session at WikiSym 2011 to discuss the best solution to build a collaborative and easily maintainable bibliography of Wikimedia research, so stay tuned. --DarTar (talk) 19:17, 26 July 2011 (UTC)

• Turning back the clock: I suppose it's too much to ask for a readily-available tool that could show the contents of a category at a past point in time? - Fayenatic (talk) 06:19, 31 July 2011 (UTC)
  • The only way to do this -- assuming you didn't make a list at the time -- would be to scan the dumps. Which is certainly possible (albeit one could only select a month, rather than any given day), although systermatic dump scanners are difficult to do on the Toolserver at the moment (each dump is 20GB or more, and there is no shared pool). - Jarry1250 ^{[Weasel? Discuss.]} 07:57, 31 July 2011 (UTC)
• An excellent overview of recent research. Thank you, --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk} 15:21, 4 August 2011 (UTC)