GLAM/Newsletter/April 2012/Contents/Tool testing report
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Continued from March.
Overview
editTable from Tools & Requests.
| Authors | Title | Keywords | Description | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ed Summers | linkypedia | tracking, web resource, file reuse | linkypedia helps you explore how your web content is used on wikipedia, extract crowd-sourced information about your web resources, and connect with wikipedians who are using your stuff. | Comment |
| ??? | External Links tracker | tracking, links | Using the externallinks table it provides a list of links in external link style from the site on which it is applied, to a given URL pattern. For each link the source page is provided, and the exact target, both linked. See British Museum example for how to use. | Comment |
| Magnus Manske | MARCsman | metadata, Library of Congress | A tool to extract metadata from files of the Library of Congress which come along with a MARC record. This tool needs improvement. Always double check the results. Simply c&p the link: See Library of Congress example for how to use. | Comment |
| Henrik | Wikipedia article traffic statistics | traffic, page views, wikipedia | This tool can show page views for any searchterm in several Wikipedias, Commons and Meta. Months can be selected from a dropdown menu starting in December 2007 until now (daily page views for the selected month will display on a chart). See English Wikipedia example for how to use. | Comment |
| Maarten Zeinstra | European Public Domain Calculators | commons, public domain, copyright | This site provides tools and documentation (Europeana Connect project) to determine the copyright status of a work in multiple European jurisdictions, it is able to calculate whether a work is in the public domain in 17 jurisdictions now (May 2011) and 30 jurisdictions by July 2011. ]. | Comment |
| ??? | ZXing Decoder | QR codes | This site can verify QR codes. If you create an artwork, banner or something else you can detect whether your implementation of a QR code works properly. | Comment |
| Magnus Manske | ISBN usage | ISBN tracking | Collating the number of times any individual book (or books by a specific publisher) are cited and/or clicked in WP. Effectively shows "most popular book". | Comment |
| Dario Taraborelli and Daniel Mietchen | Cite-o-Meter | DOI tracking | Provides a conservative estimate of the number of Wikipedia or Commons pages that cite journal articles from a particular publisher. | Example: BioMed Central |
Test by kind of information
edit- What activities are there on the topic?
- Number of articles started
- Number of articles edited
- Number of editors involved
- Most viewed articles
- Most widely used files
- Most viewed files
- Most viewed files, grouped and ranked by source
- Timeline of edit stats
- Timeline of upload stats
- Timeline of view stats
Notes from March
editTool tests
edit| Authors | Title | Keywords | Description | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Terence Eden | QRpedia | QR codes | This site can create multilingual QRpedia codes from any Wikipedia. You can access them with a smartphone or reader and will be forwarded to a website. Internet connection is required. |
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| Magnus Manske | Commons Commander | Categorisation | Commons Commander (CC) is a GUI for Commons, originally running from Toolserver, now directly on Commons (TEST MODE, real). It allows to add/change/remove categories on files by selecting them through thumbnails. | Used it to remove categories from files that had already been categorized by way of a template. Worked as expected |