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January 2

Article class changes

Is there any way to check the progress of the number of articles in each class over time within a project? Wakelamp d[@-@]b (talk) 12:54, 2 January 2025 (UTC)a

@Wakelamp: Which project? Many have counts with page histories at Special:PrefixIndex/User:WP 1.0 bot/Tables. PrimeHunter (talk) 14:15, 2 January 2025 (UTC)

@PrimeHunter Thank you for that. I have now found the Australia project., but I would like to be able to compare it over a period of time . I am hoping that it will allow us time to co-ordinate what should be done..Wakelamp d[@-@]b (talk) 02:53, 4 January 2025 (UTC)

I have just asked the same question on the Wikimedia.research page. Wakelamp d[@-@]b (talk) 03:38, 4 January 2025 (UTC)

@Wakelamp: User:WP 1.0 bot/Tables/Project/Australia has a page history as I said. Click "View history" at the top or "Last edited" at the bottom to see the counts on other dates. See more at Help:Page history. PrimeHunter (talk) 08:43, 4 January 2025 (UTC)

How to find out if the number of articles quoting a source has decreased?

There is a great deal of antipathy towards the Murdoch press in Australia. Interested to see if there has been any systematic removal. Wakelamp d[@-@]b (talk) 12:58, 2 January 2025 (UTC)

There have been discussions about the reliability of these organizations on the Reliable sources noticeboard... you can look these up, but I believe that The Australian is listed as "generally reliable", and The Daily Telegraph (Sydney) as "generally unreliable". Regardless, these sources are still used in many articles. You can see this with the following search: Special:Search/insource:dailytelegraph.com.au Recon rabbit 15:34, 2 January 2025 (UTC)'

So, I found this neat tool which (says it) shows the occurrence of any string in the whole English Wikipedia. I searched on they string "|work=The Australian" and got 8,000 results which apparently is the limit. There are probably thousands upon thousands more, and this doesn't include "| work=The Australian" or "|work=the Australian" or bare URLS, and of course it only gives the present state and not change over time. So it's not any good for this. But it is cool. And you know there are at least 8,000 uses. Herostratus (talk) 02:01, 4 January 2025 (UTC)

@Reconrabbit thank you for your reply.anf your reference to the insource:. I am.more after what @User:Herostratus[mentioned but with the full number by month Wakelamp d[@-@]b (talk) 02:47, 4 January 2025 (UTC)

I have just asked the same question on the Wikimedia.research page. Wakelamp d[@-@]b (talk) 03:37, 4 January 2025 (UTC)