At this point, I am seriously considering using the “recent changes” and “new pages” RSS feeds on wikipedia to capture raw data on all modifications to wikipedia for a given time period – thus enabling me to examine both very visible and very marginal (even deleted) sites within wikipedia. Does anyone reading this know of any similar wikipedia data capture attempts I might look at for comparison? I can roll the clock back using wikipedia’s own database on everything but deleted material…. but I’m intrgued by the notion of studying “a day on wikipedia” (though maybe a fraction of a day might be more reasonable). What do people think? Would anyone like to share this data if I do collect it?
