Book People Archive

Graphs showing daily proofreading activity


Since you seldom hear anything from Project Runeberg, you might 
have concluded that we're dead now.  But this is wrong.  Even 
though less books are added, we still have people actively 
proofreading the pages we scanned before.  Compared to PGDP.net, 
our system is more wiki-like (less workflow oriented) and our 
volunteer proofreaders can jump to any page they like, resulting 
in fewer completed books.

Just like a wiki, we have a page listing the recent changes,
http://runeberg.org/rc.pl

This page is generated by a little Perl script, that reads a log 
file, where our proofreading script adds a line each time a page 
is proofread.  Other scripts (upload, metadata updates, etc.) also 
write their changes to the same log.

Since our webserver runs Debian Linux, it was very easy to install 
"Munin", a free software for system performance diagrams.  And it 
was also easy to write a Munin plugin that reads our recent 
changes log file, displaying the number of edits per hour, each 
category of changes having its own color,
http://runeberg.org/admin/munin/runeberg/fatabur.runeberg-runeberg_proofreading.html

As you can see, we average 4 whole pages per hour over the last 
week, and 3 minor edits per hour.  This week also seem to have 0.1 
new works (scanned and) uploaded per hour, which isn't too bad.  
Between midnight and 6 AM (local Swedish time) there is almost no 
activity.

The traditional Munin graphs display the performance and usage of 
our server's components: processor, RAM, disk, network bandwidth, 
http://runeberg.org/admin/munin/runeberg/fatabur.runeberg.html

Old UNIX sysadmins will recognize Munin as an "MRTG" replacement. 
More information about Munin is found here, 
http://munin.projects.linpro.no/

PGDP.net of course has it's own system for graphs, showing 
activity per user and team.


-- 
  Lars Aronsson (lars@[redacted]
  Project Runeberg - free Nordic literature - http://runeberg.org/