Today we have launched a stable version of Wikichron (http://wikichron.science/), a web application made by the GRASIA research group to visualize collaboration in wikis. The tool is completely open-source and its code is public accesible in our github account.

This tool will serve investigators in the task of inspecting the behavior of collaborative online communities, in particular wikis, and generate research hypotheses for further and deeper studies. WikiChron has been thought to be very easy to use and highly interactive from the very first beginning. It comes with a bunch of already downloaded and processed wikis from Wikia, and with more than thirty metrics to visualize and compare between wikis. We also want it to be useful in the case of wiki administrators who want to see, analyze and compare how the activity on their wikis is going.

We have been presenting WikiChron this summer in two scientist conferences around Europe: ECIS2018 (academic paper available here) and OpenSym2018 (academic paper available here). As well as, we had the opportunity to present it in the Wikimedia Hackathon 2018:

We still want to keep improving it. In the next version, we will better integrate the tool as part of the process a wiki quantitative researcher would follow: we will provide a way to share the current selection of wikis + metrics and we will add an option to download the data of the graphs being shown by WikiChron for deeper research in the local machine. More ideas are waiting for future versions, if you want to stay tuned for updates, send me an email and I will have you up-to-date.

We want this tool to be used, discussed and criticized. So, please, spread the word and contact me for any question or comment, I will appreciate any feedback.