A few months ago, following a lead by BrowserUk and using source code (slightly rearranged) by blokhead, I started collecting Selected Best Nodes, until I had 2000 of them.
Once I was reasonably confident that I had the first 2000 best nodes of all times, I started playing with the resulting database, and eventually I made a simple search engine, from where I can get some statistics by section or author, and lists of nodes, customized by section and rep.
A few examples:
Stats by section, sorted by number of nodes: (but you can get stats by author, or sorted in different ways)
section | nodes | sum_rep | avg_rep | min_rep | max_rep |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Meditations | 808 | 89319 | 110.54 | 82 | 452 |
Seekers of Perl Wisdom | 579 | 56855 | 98.20 | 82 | 389 |
Perl Monks Discussion | 249 | 28373 | 113.95 | 82 | 297 |
Cool Uses For Perl | 113 | 13331 | 117.97 | 82 | 325 |
Obfuscated Code | 111 | 14819 | 133.50 | 82 | 541 |
Tutorials | 71 | 9324 | 131.32 | 83 | 409 |
Perl Poetry | 44 | 4882 | 110.95 | 83 | 256 |
Craft | 17 | 1908 | 112.24 | 85 | 227 |
Code Catacombs | 5 | 464 | 92.80 | 85 | 101 |
Polls | 3 | 326 | 108.67 | 98 | 129 |
Snippets Section | 3 | 342 | 114 | 83 | 150 |
Reviews | 2 | 192 | 96 | 96 | 96 |
Perl News | 1 | 92 | 92 | 92 | 92 |
List of Meditations and Cool Uses for Perl nodes with rep of 200 or more: (but you can list by any other section or rep value)
More than my description, I believe that using it directly would be easier to understand. So have a look at http://gmax.oltrelinux.com/cgi-bin/cbnodes.cgi, where you can also download the current database in SQLite format.
I will appreciate comments and tips for enhancements. Actually, if the gods decide to implement something like this in the Monastery, I would be very happy.
Thanks to demerphq, BrowserUk, dragonchild, and blokhead for providing useful feedback and tips.
update
Modified links in example table. Since it was cut-and-paste code from an external page, its links could log out the readers. Fixed now. Thanks to talexb.
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