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Welcome to the first draft of the Authorstats project's wiki.

I've wanted to share the statistical scripts I wrote for my own use a while back, and this seemed like the best way to do it.

My pen name is Ken Haramiru, and I am an independently published author. I write erotica, which is to say that I write pornography with the pictures cut out. But the problems I'm solving - tracking ratings, votes, comments, etc - are universal ones which authors in other genres also face.

The scripts I've written can work with a variety of sites, and while they are useful at present for my fellow erotica authors, they're probably useful to more traditional authors as well.

I'll try to upload some of my code soon, and then I'll revisit the documentation here.

The main thing my scripts have done is free me from the tyranny of "oh, have there been votes today?" and checking back and forth. Cron is more obsessive / compulsive about this than I could ever hope to be, and runs a handful of small Perl programs which log into websites and snapshot my stories' statistics once an hour. I then wrote a few scripts to perform regular analysis of the data files which the other programs generate.