User:OrenBochman/ToolServer
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Special pages provide a wealth of information on users. For example:
However the toolserver provides additional tools - many with far greater analytics power
- Articles and missing Content
- Contributors: shows the version history of a page, with options for sorting, filtering, grouping, and different output formats. May be used to copy a version history on a wiki page.
- Misstake Based on a page, the most wanted missing articles (very quick!).
- Top topics (top 50 viewed per hour), updated hourly.
- Most wanted articles, updated daily.
- Catagories
- CatScan 2.0 is a faster and more powerful rewrite of the well-known Catscan.
- Category intersection lists all pages or images that are in a set of given categories.
- CategoryTree: shows the category structure as a dynamic tree. Can be installed as a sidebar in most browsers.
- [1]: search categories with subcategories recursively, for intersection with other categories, templates, stubs, recent changes, etc.
- CommonSense: try to guess into which category on Wikimedia Commons an image belongs.
- Copyright
- User interataction
- Voting Statistics
- AfD Vote Counter - Analyzes statistics regarding a user's voting patterns at Articles for Deletion.
- Admin AfD Counter - Analyzes statistics regarding an admin's AfD closure patterns.
- RfA Vote Counter - Analyzes statistics regarding a user's voting patterns at Requests for Adminship.
- New Page Patrol
- New Page Patrol Report - A report on which editors have been recently patrolling new pages, their patrolling speed, and which side of the queue they're patrolling from.
- New Page Patrol Graph - A graph of how many days worth of articles are in the queue at Special:NewPages, up to a 30-day history updated hourly.
- Edit Searches
- User Contribution Search - Search through a page's history and return edits made by a particular user on that page.
- User Edit Summary Search - Search through a user's edit summaries by keyword and return edits with a partial match.
- Policy Contribution Search - Search through a user's edits to policy and guideline pages.
- Editor Interaction Analyzer - Searches through two users' contributions for potential interaction between them.
- Misc
- Related places, shows locations of places linked from a wiki page on Google maps.
- Bong, a wiki(m|p)edia-internal search interface similar to bing.com - kinda.
- Users
- edit counter
- [2]: finding users that were active in the last minutes/hours, filtered by groups, tags or categories.
- [3]: Image gallery, optionally filtered or grouped by user. Shows usage and tagging status. Also supplies an RSS feed of recent uploads.
- ToolTOC - online overview of available tools.
- download page - may not be up to date. Beware that the downloads are just for kicks - nothing there is ready for production, most is tailored specifically for the toolserver.
- source browser - read the source, Luke
- usage statistics - some usage statistics, collected with rrdtool
- Images
- CheckUsage: find out where an image from the Commons is used on Mediawiki projects.
- CommonSense: try to guess into which category on Wikimedia Commons an image belongs.
- Gallery: Image gallery, optionally filtered or grouped by user. Shows usage and tagging status. Also supplies an RSS feed of recent uploads.
- UntaggedImages: list untagged images, optionally filtered or grouped by user.
- OrphanImages: list orphan images, optionally filtered or grouped by user (Commons only).
- CommonsClash: list local images that "shadow" an image on the commons. Also shows if the local copy is identical.
- CategoryIntersect: in image mode, this lists all images contained or used in a given category and its subcategories.
- [4]: Search for images and other media files in a category, including subcategories. Allows filters for license requirements, file size, resolution, file type, etc.
- [5]: A page providing the Picture of the Day in different resolutions via a stable URL
These just scratch the serface of what users have created on toolserver.
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