Research:GuidedTour usage

This page documents a completed research project.


In this project, we'll explore the usage of mw:Extension:GuidedTour on Wikimedia Projects.

Methods edit

Custom guided tours can be created via pages saved in the MediaWiki namespace (ns=8) with a specific title pattern. Since this title format is enforced by the software, we can assume that any titles falling outside of this format are not actually tours.

I used the following query to extract guided tour pages created on the list of wikis with mw:Extension:GuidedTour enabled [1].

SELECT page_title FROM page WHERE page_namespace = 8 AND page_title LIKE 'Guidedtour-tour-%.js'

Results edit

Wiki Tour Comments
enwiki en:MediaWiki:Guidedtour-tour-BeBoldStudent.js
en:MediaWiki:Guidedtour-tour-CitationsStudent.js
en:MediaWiki:Guidedtour-tour-finddpla.js
en:MediaWiki:Guidedtour-tour-studentsandbox.js
en:MediaWiki:Guidedtour-tour-twa1.js
en:MediaWiki:Guidedtour-tour-twa2.js
en:MediaWiki:Guidedtour-tour-twa3.js
en:MediaWiki:Guidedtour-tour-twa4.js
en:MediaWiki:Guidedtour-tour-twa5.js
en:MediaWiki:Guidedtour-tour-twa6.js
en:MediaWiki:Guidedtour-tour-twa7.js
commonswiki commons:MediaWiki:Guidedtour-tour-GTA1.js
commons:MediaWiki:Guidedtour-tour-GTA2.js
commons:MediaWiki:Guidedtour-tour-GTA3.js
commons:MediaWiki:Guidedtour-tour-GTA5.js
commons:MediaWiki:Guidedtour-tour-nominatefordeletion.js
dewiki de:MediaWiki:Guidedtour-tour-test2.js
fawiki fa:MediaWiki:Guidedtour-tour-basics.js
fa:MediaWiki:Guidedtour-tour-studentsandbox.js
outreachwiki outreach:MediaWiki:Guidedtour-tour-CitationsStudent.js
outreach:MediaWiki:Guidedtour-tour-mytest.js
outreach:MediaWiki:Guidedtour-tour-sandbox.js
ptwiki pt:MediaWiki:Guidedtour-tour-contribs.js
pt:MediaWiki:Guidedtour-tour-patrol.js
wikidata wikidata:MediaWiki:Guidedtour-tour-wikidatabasics.js

References edit