This is an experiment with counting how many questions of different types are asked at the Wikipedia Teahouse, using Archive 1123. I'll see how it goes editing this on-wiki, but may have to switch to Excel for analysis or easier data entry.
A more elegant solution would be if there were some way to tag individual sections and then use a script to calculate totals for each archive.
As a first pass, I am using some keywords or phrases, then will look at other ways of grouping.
Possible abbreviations: nq = no question, cnp = create new page/article, htu = hard to understand, nt = no section title (added later by hosts), afc-no = draft rejected or declined (unspecified which) at AFC, chun = change user name, udel = delete user, svp = confusion over save versus publish (yes this comes up often enough to need its own category!), rff = request for feedback, ot = off-topic, ...
Table
edit| No | Section head | URL | Question summary | Type tags | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Submission Declined | declined, draft, sandbox, commercial school | |||
| 2 | Changing My Username | change name, real to pseudo | |||
| 3 | West Gate Tunnel | factual question, repeat questioner, blocked | |||
| 4 | Is it okay to move a draft created using the AfC process to my user space | draft vs user space, autoconfirmed questioner, moving pages, afc | |||
| 5 | i want make my biography article | autobio, musician, bangladeshi | |||
| 6 | Re-create the deleted article | undelete, bio, G5, blocked sock, spam | |||
| 7 | why can't I relate my wikipedia account to my google account | accounts | |||
| 8 | Generic topic versus specific product | questioning promo content | |||
| 9 | How to find the sources listed in an article without a link | sourcing, offline | |||
| 10 | I made an error in a move can you please fix it | move, fix spell | |||
| 11 | upload photo | photos | |||
| 12 | u in colour? (US English or British English spelling?) | engvar | |||
| 13 | Bronwyn Oliver has template:Use British English but the article is about australian | engvar | |||
| 14 | Why my edit is not showing | reverted, unsourced, copyvio | copying detected after TH post | ||
| 15 | about French mathematical seminars | fair use of linking external site | |||
| 16 | cnp, promo, e-store | cnp=create new page/article | |||
| 17 | Ii mad | no question | |||
| 18 | How we can contest unrightful post rejection? | afc, wrong outcome, corrected | draft was rejected, should have been declined | ||
| 19 | Creating new artist bio | request paid edit, cnp, artist bio | |||
| 20 | Creating new wiki pages | cnp, unspecified | |||
| 21 | Feedback on some drafts | ||||
| 22 | I do not authorize a wiki page: Dorothy Ruiz Martinez | blp subject | |||
| 23 | How do I remove my self from Wikipedia? | delete account | |||
| 24 | colors | technical, formatting | |||
| 25 | Draft:Esav Marrakech | draft, school, sock blocked | |||
| Entry for Stakeholder Capitalism | content dispute | ||||
| I'm new here | hello | ||||
| Templates of AUshield | Mlik point | ||||
| Does LROCKjn have a question? | nt, nq | ||||
| Categories and Redirects | policy, categories | ||||
| User Anasnadeem2548 | behaviour, spam, cross-wiki | ||||
| "An automated filter has identified this edit as potentially unconstructive" | edit filter | ||||
| Railway interchange template | templates | ||||
| Unique titles | titles, dab | ||||
| Boris Savinkov | reverted, bot revert | ||||
| Did not have the more/move tab when I log in | moves, ac-cant | ||||
| Question regarding WP:BLPSELFPUB on Pete Buttigieg article | ga, sourcing, blp, | ||||
| Reliable sources | afc-no | coi/paid? | |||
| How to put <ref:name="1"> correctly to avoid getting an error message | technical, refs | ||||
| Confused on deletion. | procedural, req delete | ||||
| Signing inline vs. after line break | technical, formatting, talk pages | ||||
| Creating an article when the title already goes to another article | redirects | working up an article to replace a redirect | |||
| Panama Presidents photos | photos, copyright | op blocked | |||
| May i create pages which has been deleted before. | recreating pages deleted because created by blocked user | cnp, blp, india | op blocked | ||
| unreferenced or blp unsourced on Amanda Robins | usage of maintenance templates | ||||
| Reliabilites | rs | ||||
| reference | how to add a ref? | refs | |||
| How can I change my Username? | chun | ||||
| Best steps to create page on English Wikipedia that exists in German Wikipedia | translating | ||||
| Material rejected because "that does not meet Wikipedia's minimum standard for inline citations." | afc-no, refimprove, blp | ||||
| How do you purge a Username and start a new account? | accounts, udel | ||||
| Question about articles | |||||
| Turned down. | mma bio "turned down" | ip editor, unclear which user or article applies | |||
| How to handle existing redirect for different person | moving draft over redirect | ||||
| Draft awaiting review | accept my draft please | afc, time | user blocked | ||
| editing | scope of partial block | procedural | |||
| Is there a way to restore a page that has been deleted? The links to it still exist but you get a generic page saying it has been deleted when you click the link. | undeletion | ||||
| ORIGINE DE LA LANGUE HAOUSSA | factual question, non-english | ||||
| Saving edits | svp | ||||
| Article verification | afc | ||||
| I would like to have opinion from people in India and Italy about the collaboration with two countries | |||||
| Getting blocked | troll? | ||||
| 1988 Presidential Election Portrait | why was photo changed? | deleted from commons, non-free image | |||
| Feedback on notability of Draft:Julio Rumbaut | draft, notablity, rff | ||||
| Trouble finding references | nh, notability, finding references, draft, india | ||||
| Why was my wiki page rejected? | why-deletion, g3 hoax | ||||
| My Wikipedia page is stuck as a draft, how do I publish it? | autobio | ||||
| Adding Logo to company page | permissions, upload, non-ac | ||||
| On Uploading Logos of companies and organizations | copyright, derived works, too, nfur, nfci | ||||
| Jorge Washington de Queiroz | draftified | ||||
| Level of technical sophistication of mathematical articles? | policy, writing style | ||||
| Template request | how to request a template | procedural | |||
| HAKONE HOT SPRING (Ver 2): Pre-Formatting Content Check | drafts, rff | ||||
| Vivien Saunders OBE 'Convicted' | req addition of court conviction to blp | blp | |||
| Infobox problems | template parameter errors | ||||
| What sources would be good? | sourcing | ||||
| Template:Commons category or Template:Sister project auto | |||||
| How can I spread the Good News of Jesus to my Catholic family? | |||||
| references | reverted | ||||
| Editor not accepting a govt. report | disputes | ||||
| Will Vishal Bhujbal be deleted? | |||||
| Thank you for the invite | hello | ||||
| Can I post random short paragraphs on my user page? | user pages | ||||
| Wanna make friends | finding other like minded users (in this case teen-age) | ||||
| Where do I begin? | how to start | ||||
| Editing with A Firsthand Source | sourcing | ||||
| Problems with reliable references | declined, independent sources | ||||
| how can I send a private message to α wikipedia user | how, communication | ||||
| Request for removal of - in marriage and partnership status post | punctuation style | ||||
| Hello | hello | ||||
| Thank you | nq | ublocked | |||
| Multiple infoboxes | how, technical, templates | ||||
| lost draft | lost work, not saved | nh | |||
| Draft:Gursimran Singh Mand | |||||
| News item to add to "Anonymous" | edit request, protected page | ||||
| Facing an issue in Bing Webmaster | ot | ||||
| Making a living | how do i get paid on wikipedia | how-paid, misunderstand-purpose | this comes up often enough to deserve its own category | ||
| Draft:Kau Ka Pe'a | help-publish | ||||
| Someone Changed all My Edits | reversion | ||||
| DRAFT TAGS | wikiproject tags to aid speedy review | drafts, wikiprojects | |||
| Red Userpage? | how to create a user page | technical | |||
| "Advanced" source code editing | pasting / importing tabular content | technical | |||
| Email marketing links question | request change to protected page (to replace a ref with linkspam) | op blocked for linkspamming other pages | |||
| Reliability | rs | ||||
| Uploading Instagram image on Wikipedia | nfci | ||||
| Archiving | technical, talk pages | ||||
| Eric Joyce article | disputes, blp | ||||
| Sangbad Pratidin | disputes, draftification, move vandalism, revenge | ||||
| Looking for support on my first article | rfh, afc-declined, notability, musician | ||||
| Notable residents | |||||
| Wikipedia:Sandbox clear intervals | technical | ||||
| Reliable sources for pages on notable academics | rs, notability, academics | ||||
| Waiting for a review | afc-waiting, unsubmitted | ||||
| To what extent should you disagree with like…anyone…? | very long and productive discussion | ||||
| Idea for a new "considered the worst" page | idea for a list article | ||||
| Determining Changes | how-technical, history, page protection | ||||
| How to remove incorrect references | |||||
| writing simple and small effective summary, resources with examples? | edit summaries, rf help pages | ||||
| Review draft | request review submitted draft | afc-wait | |||
| Is a slideshow considered a reliable source? | rs | ||||
| Evaluating an article | unclear question overly general | ||||
| Need help with possible vandalism | disputes, advocacy / coi | ||||
| Adding photo to a bio of a living person | photo, copyright, how | ||||
| Article verification | request for review draft | ||||
| sorting in wikitables | technical, tables, sortkeys | ||||
| Moving a category | technical and procedural | ||||
| Betsy Rosenberg | COI reverted, misundersanding responsibility | ||||
| Xurshidbek Jamoldinov | non-english post, something about young editors | ||||
| I (bot) failed to archive | talk pages, archiving | ||||
| How to tag a IP address user | how, communication | ||||
| Getting more involved... | how to start, what to do | ||||
| Notability For Crypto Coins | notability, policies | ||||
| Improve | rf advice, improve draft | ||||
| Electronic Music of the United Kingdom | article structure | ||||
| Question by JCo0197 | what are good topics to start with | how to start | |||
Types of questions
editHow-Why axis
edit- Why-occurrence: something happened (deletion, reversion, afc decline) and I understand what it is that happened, but not why
- Why-mistaken: OP is asking why something happened but have a misconception about what actually happened. E.g. article seems deleted but was actually draftified, edits reverted but user doesn't know about history pages.
- How: how do I do X? Maybe consider subtypes like how-technical, how-procedural, ...
- Request for: feedback, help, ...
What axis
editWhat it is about: sourcing, notability, referencing, accounts, disputes, style, ... history pages, ...
Common problem areas: create article, afc delays, help getting draft to acceptable quality; blp subject, coi or paid...
Other factors
editInteraction
editQuestion answered / unanswered. OP responded (satisfied, disputed, ...?) / not responded. Quantity of replies. Number of users in topic.
Type of user
editIP / new account / established user. Subsequently blocked (for reasons related / unrelated to the post). Block reason.
Type of article
editBLP (musician, businessman, academic, ...), business, school ...