For Example —

http://wikidashboard.parc.com/wiki/Charles_Peirce

You can set the preferences to show more than the default display.

Jonny

Who is parc.com? They can't be the Palo Alto folks, can they? They don't display a homepage at http://parc.com/. How do they figure into this tool?

Only PARC that I know.

Some of the buttons in the lower blue bar give info.

DIGG IT : http://wikidashboard.parc.com/

There's some discussion on the Wikienlist, too.

Jonny

They do appear to be the PARC folks. I didn't know they were still around. Glad for that.

Blog 4 Public Discussion

A Question Wrapped In A Comment By Yours Truly

Jonny

This is a revolutionary tool for us wiki-watchers.

Good spot Jonny.

Also does edit analysis for individual editors, for example:

http://wikidashboard.parc.com/wiki/User:SlimVirgin

Jonny

You need to use the "www": http://www.parc.com/

I've been playing with it ever since I got it out of the wrapper.

But isn't this *gasp* stalking?



I don't know what that means anymore.

Thanks. I hate to go off topic but why does a subdomain "http://wikidashboard.parc.com/..." work but not the domain itself "http://parc.com/"? I never understood when "www" was required and thought modern browsers could sort it out anyway.

Yes, but it's Slik Stalking

Jonny

I see that SlimV has made 413 edits to former Coventry City goalkeeper, and bland local TV soccer results reader, David Icke. Admittedly, the man had a mid life crisis of profound proportions and thought he was God. But if you knew Icke the way I knew Icke, then you'd find SVs obsession more than a little amusing.



Ah! I see the connection. It's apparent anti-Semitism yet again (groan - sorry guys). After being ridiculed in the UK for telling everyone he was God, and performing the most spectacular about-turn a bland sports results reader could possible take, Icke went to the US to make a fortune ranting about shape shifting lizards taking over the world.

Unbeknownst to the now befuddled Icke, the Jewish anti-defamation league took the lizard references to be code words for Jews, and subsequently, Icke has spent the rest of his "career" insisting that no - he does actually mean shape shifting lizards. People who recalled his scary but hilarious maroon phase in the UK just before his exile to the States, were pretty satisfied with Icke's explanation. And everyone just laughed. But SV is there to pin the anti-semitism slur on this nit-wit's biography nonetheless. And keep pinning it again and again and again. This has got to stop. Oh, it has.

It's a neat tool. Sort of a cross between Wannabe Kate and Aka's Page History Statistics Tool. It doesn't seem to work on pages which have an emdash (—) in the title, though.

It's all in the server-side configuration, not in the browser. While most sites are configured to work with or without the www, it depends on how the DNS and web server are set up. Traditionally, a hostname (whether "www" or a subdomain name) was needed because the main domain might be used for lots of things (FTP, e-mail, Telnet, Gopher, etc.) as well as the Web, but since the Web got popular it has tended to dominate.

Thanks Dan. That is the most satisfying answer to that question I have ever seen.

Back to topic. WikiDashBoard is appears to be a valuable tool that can provide some good insights into individual edit patterns and edit conflicts on specific articles. As a means of learning about the tool I have found it useful to use it on articles that I have an intimate understanding of development in order to get a feel of how it can be used and interpreted. I suspect it will make itself useful frequently on WR.

Wikipedia Review Outrigger —

Discussion of WikiDashBoard at the Augmented Social Cognition Blog

Let me begin by copying the texts of a few initial exchanges on the ASC blog. It will help me to draft my comments here first, as it drives my error-prone self a little bit nuts trying to work on a blog of the Moving Finger type.




Jonny