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wikiContributions is an open-source project to help scientists get recognition for their contributions to scientific wikis. At the moment, it has the form of a web site (not live yet), but we are opened to giving it any other form, such as a mediaWiki extension, a mobile app, Chrome plugin, or whatever suits best the scientific community.

For a given username, it extracts all articles for which the user has contributed to, shows the differences between the revision made by the user and the previous revision for each article, and it then provides a score based on the weight of the contribution made.

Example: If John is a user who has made one contribution (adding a comma) to one article (about binary trees), he will find, through writing his username in our website and clicking send, that he has contributed to one article: binary trees, and the text from his revision will be shown, as well as the text from the previous revision (which should be identical less a comma). (note that only in the WEHA version are the 2 revisions shown. The Google-Diff version will only display one text, with different colors according to the changes made from the previous revision) He will then learn that the only difference between the 2 revisions is a single "add", which will give him a low score for this article. Since he hasn't contributed to other articles, his total score will be the same, i.e. very low.

The code used to compare 2 revisions of an article uses [Google-Diff] (https://code.google.com/p/google-diff-match-patch/).