Revisions=f(time): and the winner is Charles Darwin
I've been playing with the mediawiki API to draw a timeline of popular scientists through the last centuries using the number of revisions in wikipedia as the Y-axis. The java code generating this timeline is available here:WikipediaBioEdits.java. This code:
- loops over the articles having a Template:infobox scientist
- gets the categories of an article and retrieves the birth/death dates threw the categories 'Births_by_year' and 'Deaths_by_year'
- gets one picture in an article an resizes it to 64px
- counts the number of revisions for an article
At the end, the generated timeline looks like this: (best viewed with firefox):
1192196227323502427250425812658273528122152515791633168717411795184919031957
.jpg "Robert Cade"){kind=small}
;_Sir_Thomas_Browne_by_Joan_Carlile.jpg "Thomas Browne")
.jpg "Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac"){kind=small}
,Engraving,SIL14-T003-09a_cropped.jpg "John Tyndall"){kind=small}
.png "Pierre Curie"){kind=small}
.jpg "Claude Shannon"){kind=small}
.jpg "Frederick Banting"){kind=small}
_%E2%80%93_frs-002.jpg "Stephen Jay Gould")
.png "Ivan Pavlov"){kind=small}
-LLNL.jpg "J. Robert Oppenheimer"){kind=small}
.jpg "Leonhard Euler"){kind=small}
.jpg "Alexander Fleming")
That's it
Pierre
