WikiApiary talk:Operations/2013/October

New Property:Has IP address
I had some emails with User:MarkAHershberger today about tracking wiki farms and he was wondering if WikiApiary could possibly get the IP address of wikis to match them up, even when farms aren't necessarily identified. I just added a little hack into User:Bumble Bee to do just that and they are now populating. Within 12 hours all will be picked up. Note that this is using the multiproperty capability in WikiApiary, so if a wiki uses multiple addresses over time it will pick them all up (this is currently used for DB versions). Screenshot of the data in the ApiaryDB:



Fun to watch this fill in. See if it tells us much. Also, jhe I wish Semantic MediaWiki had an IP address data type! :-)

🐝 thingles (talk) 01:41, 2 October 2013 (UTC)

''PS: I found a bug that showed up in this diff and have fixed it. FreeWiki/General will get fixed on the next update.''
 * nice... now to make use of this. -- ☠ MarkAHershberger ☢ (talk) ☣ 02:10, 2 October 2013 (UTC)

New Property:Has reverse lookup
Following up on Property:Has IP address it hit me that it might be really useful to do a reverse hostname lookup on the IP. Turned out to be really easy to add this as well, so that is now in. This is particularly useful since the reverse lookup tends to identify clearly the hosting provider. This is also being managed as a multiproperty.



🐝 thingles (talk) 02:23, 2 October 2013 (UTC)

PS: Mark, note Dreamhost listed in the graphic above.