Comparison with similar tools
Other tools share the same purpose as socksfinder and may be better by some measurements. Here is a quick comparison. Feel free to contact me if you want to correct an error or add another tool to the comparison.
| Tool | Editor Interaction Analyzer | Interaction Timeline | Intersect Contribs | socksfinder (web) | socksfinder (cli) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Available wikis | All WMF wikis | All WMF wikis | All WMF wikis | Only frwiki (for now) |
Any wiki (you need to build the index) |
| Update frequency | Almost realtime | Almost realtime | Almost realtime | Twice a month | N/A (you build the index yourself) |
| Users per query | ~7 max | 2 max | 8 max | No limit | No limit | Threshold selection | No (always 2) |
No (only 2 users anyway) |
No (always 2) |
Yes | Yes |
| Date range selection | Yes | Yes | No | No | No |
| Namespace selection | Yes | No | Yes | No (for now) |
You can | grep $NAMESPACE |
Ordering options | By minimum time between edits or by date | Only by date | Alphabetically or by number of editors | Alphabetically or by number of editors | Alphabetically, by number of editors or unordered |
| Number of edits per page | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | List of editors per page | Yes (with number of edits by editor) |
No | No | Yes | Yes | Timeline of edits | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | Co-occurrences matrix | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | User names completion | No | Yes | No | No | No |
| Speed | Very slow | Slow | Slow | Fast | Fast |
| Stability | Often down | Fine | Fine | Fine | N/A (you run it yourself) |
| Address | https://tools.wmflabs.org/sigma/editorinteract.py | https://interaction-timeline.toolforge.org | https://intersect-contribs.toolforge.org | https://socksfinder.toolforge.org | https://github.com/Arkanosis/socksfinder (sources) https://arkanosis.fr/wikipedia/socksfinder/0.6.0-dev/ (pre-compiled binary and pre-built index) |