#!/usr/bin/env python # Matplotlib ships only partial type stubs, so strict checking is pure noise here. # pyright: basic """Generate the SCP dataset's statistics showcase: charts (PNG) + tables + conclusions. Reads the DuckDB database, writes chart images to `/` and a single Markdown report (`STATISTICS.md`) that embeds every chart and table alongside the conclusion it supports. Re-running overwrites the outputs. Usage (run from the src/ directory, like scp_dataset.py): python generate_report.py python generate_report.py --db ../data/scp_dataset.duckdb --images ../images \ --report ../STATISTICS.md """ from __future__ import annotations import argparse import itertools import logging from pathlib import Path from typing import TYPE_CHECKING import duckdb import matplotlib as mpl import numpy as np mpl.use("Agg") # headless: render to files, never a window. import matplotlib.pyplot as plt if TYPE_CHECKING: from matplotlib.axes import Axes from matplotlib.figure import Figure DEFAULT_DB = "../data/scp_dataset.duckdb" DEFAULT_IMAGES = "../images" DEFAULT_REPORT = "../STATISTICS.md" CAPTION = "SCP Wiki content pages · 2008–2026 · n = 19,438 · via Crom" # Placeholder/institutional credit names to drop from author stats. _PLACEHOLDERS = "('Anonymous', 'Unknown Author', 'Staff', 'Site News Team')" # Shared TEMP views (registered in main()): `credits` is one row per attribution credit; # `page_authors` applies the all-authors rule — AUTHOR credits where present, else the # page's submitter/poster — so co-authors count and every page is attributed. _VIEWS_SQL = f""" CREATE TEMP VIEW credits AS SELECT p.url, p.rating, p.title, p.created_at, p.created_by_display_name AS poster, a.type AS role, a.user_display_name AS name FROM pages p, unnest(from_json(p.attributions, '[{{"type":"VARCHAR","user_display_name":"VARCHAR","date":"VARCHAR","order":"INTEGER"}}]' )) AS t(a); CREATE TEMP VIEW page_authors AS WITH ac AS ( SELECT DISTINCT url, name AS author FROM credits WHERE role = 'AUTHOR' AND name NOT IN {_PLACEHOLDERS} ) SELECT url, author FROM ac UNION SELECT p.url, p.created_by_display_name FROM pages p WHERE p.created_by_display_name IS NOT NULL AND p.created_by_display_name NOT IN {_PLACEHOLDERS} AND p.url NOT IN (SELECT url FROM ac); """ # Palette. INK, SUBINK, MUTED, GRID = "#222222", "#555555", "#9a9a9a", "#ececec" ACCENT, ACCENT2 = "#a01722", "#2f6f9f" SERIES = [ACCENT, ACCENT2, "#c98a2b", "#4f8a5b", "#7a5195", "#5a5a5a", "#d45087"] # Tags that describe structure/meta rather than content themes; excluded from "themes". _NON_THEME = ( "scp", "tale", "hub", "goi-format", "essay", "supplement", "admin", "guide", "collaboration", "contest", "interview", "poetry", "artwork", "co-authored", "featured", "rewrite", "safe", "euclid", "keter", "thaumiel", "neutralized", "explained", "apollyon", "archon", "esoteric-class", "pending", "decommissioned", ) logger = logging.getLogger("generate_report") # --- Style + small helpers ------------------------------------------------------------ def setup_style() -> None: """Apply a clean, consistent matplotlib look.""" plt.rcParams.update( { "savefig.dpi": 150, "figure.facecolor": "white", "axes.facecolor": "white", "axes.edgecolor": "#cccccc", "axes.linewidth": 0.8, "axes.titlesize": 14, "axes.titleweight": "bold", "axes.titlecolor": INK, "axes.labelcolor": SUBINK, "axes.grid": True, "axes.axisbelow": True, "grid.color": GRID, "grid.linewidth": 0.9, "xtick.color": SUBINK, "ytick.color": SUBINK, "text.color": INK, "font.size": 11, "legend.frameon": False, } ) def _style_axes(ax: Axes, title: str) -> None: """Despine, left-align the title, and add the dataset caption.""" for side in ("top", "right"): ax.spines[side].set_visible(False) ax.set_title(title, loc="left", pad=12) ax.figure.text(0.005, 0.005, CAPTION, fontsize=7.5, color=MUTED, ha="left") def _save(fig: Figure, images_dir: Path, name: str) -> str: """Write a figure and return its repo-relative path for Markdown embedding.""" fig.savefig(images_dir / f"{name}.png", bbox_inches="tight") plt.close(fig) return f"images/{name}.png" def _section(title: str, body: str, takeaway: str) -> str: """Assemble one Markdown section: heading, body (image or table), conclusion.""" return f"## {title}\n\n{body}\n\n**Takeaway.** {takeaway}\n" def _img(title: str, path: str, takeaway: str) -> str: return _section(title, f"![{title}]({path})", takeaway) def _md_table(headers: list[str], rows: list[list[str]]) -> str: """Render a Markdown table; cell pipes are escaped so titles can't break columns.""" def row(cells: list[str]) -> str: return "| " + " | ".join(c.replace("|", r"\|") for c in cells) + " |" rule = "| " + " | ".join("---" for _ in headers) + " |" return "\n".join([row(headers), rule, *(row(r) for r in rows)]) # --- Charts --------------------------------------------------------------------------- def chart_pages_per_year(con: duckdb.DuckDBPyConnection, images: Path) -> str: """Stacked bar of pages created per year, split SCP / Tale / Other.""" rows = con.execute(""" WITH typed AS ( SELECT p.url, year(p.created_at) AS yr, max(t.tag = 'scp')::int AS is_scp, max(t.tag = 'tale')::int AS is_tale FROM pages p LEFT JOIN page_tags t ON t.page_url = p.url GROUP BY p.url, yr) SELECT yr, count(*) AS total, sum(is_scp) AS scp, sum(is_tale) AS tale FROM typed GROUP BY yr ORDER BY yr """).fetchall() years = [r[0] for r in rows] scp = np.array([r[2] for r in rows]) tale = np.array([r[3] for r in rows]) other = np.array([r[1] for r in rows]) - scp - tale fig, ax = plt.subplots(figsize=(10, 5.2)) ax.bar(years, scp, label="SCP", color=ACCENT) ax.bar(years, tale, bottom=scp, label="Tale", color=ACCENT2) ax.bar(years, other, bottom=scp + tale, label="Other", color="#c9b79c") ax.set_ylabel("pages created") ax.legend(loc="upper left") ax.margins(x=0.01) ax.set_xticks(range(min(years), max(years) + 1, 2)) _style_axes(ax, "Content created per year") peak = years[int(np.argmax(scp + tale + other))] total = int((scp + tale + other).sum()) takeaway = ( f"The wiki grew from 298 pages in 2008 to a peak around {peak}, " f"{total:,} in all. SCPs are the backbone but tales now make up roughly a " "third of yearly output; 2026 is a partial year." ) return _img( "Content created per year", _save(fig, images, "pages_per_year"), takeaway, ) def chart_object_classes(con: duckdb.DuckDBPyConnection, images: Path) -> str: """Bar of object-class counts.""" classes = ( "safe", "euclid", "keter", "thaumiel", "neutralized", "explained", "apollyon", "archon", "esoteric-class", "pending", "decommissioned", ) rows = con.execute( "SELECT tag, count(*) n FROM page_tags WHERE tag = ANY($c) GROUP BY tag", {"c": list(classes)}, ).fetchall() counts = dict(rows) labels = [c for c in classes if c in counts] values = [counts[c] for c in labels] order = np.argsort(values) labels = [labels[i] for i in order] values = [values[i] for i in order] fig, ax = plt.subplots(figsize=(9, 5)) bars = ax.barh(labels, values, color=ACCENT) ax.bar_label(bars, padding=4, fmt="{:,.0f}", color=SUBINK, fontsize=9) ax.set_xlabel("pages") ax.margins(x=0.12) _style_axes(ax, "Object classes") takeaway = ( f"Euclid ('anomalous but containable') is the plurality at {counts['euclid']:,}, " f"just ahead of Safe ({counts['safe']:,}); Keter is a distant third. The catch-all " "'esoteric-class' has overtaken every named class except the big three." ) return _img( "Object classes", _save(fig, images, "object_classes"), takeaway, ) def _theme_tags(con: duckdb.DuckDBPyConnection, limit: int) -> list[tuple[str, int]]: """Top content-theme tags (excluding meta, structural, and class tags).""" return con.execute( r""" SELECT tag, count(*) n FROM page_tags WHERE tag NOT LIKE '\_%' ESCAPE '\' AND tag NOT LIKE 'crom:%' AND NOT (tag = ANY($x)) GROUP BY tag ORDER BY n DESC LIMIT $k """, {"x": list(_NON_THEME), "k": limit}, ).fetchall() def chart_top_themes(con: duckdb.DuckDBPyConnection, images: Path) -> str: """Horizontal bar of the most common theme tags.""" rows = _theme_tags(con, 15) labels = [r[0] for r in rows][::-1] values = [r[1] for r in rows][::-1] fig, ax = plt.subplots(figsize=(9, 6)) bars = ax.barh(labels, values, color=ACCENT2) ax.bar_label(bars, padding=4, fmt="{:,.0f}", color=SUBINK, fontsize=9) ax.set_xlabel("pages tagged") ax.margins(x=0.12) _style_axes(ax, "Most common themes") takeaway = ( f"Entity descriptors dominate — '{rows[0][0]}', '{rows[1][0]}' and '{rows[2][0]}' " "lead — followed by genre tags like horror and mind-affecting. Comedy ranks " "surprisingly high, a reminder the wiki is not all grimdark." ) return _img( "Most common themes", _save(fig, images, "top_themes"), takeaway, ) def chart_rating_distribution(con: duckdb.DuckDBPyConnection, images: Path) -> str: """Histogram of ratings on a symlog x-axis (covers negatives and the long tail).""" ratings = np.array( [ r[0] for r in con.execute( "SELECT rating FROM pages WHERE rating IS NOT NULL" ).fetchall() ] ) bins = np.concatenate( [[-200, -50, -10, 0], np.logspace(np.log10(10), np.log10(11000), 45)] ) fig, ax = plt.subplots(figsize=(10, 5)) ax.hist(ratings, bins=bins.tolist(), color=ACCENT, edgecolor="white", linewidth=0.3) ax.set_xscale("symlog", linthresh=10) ax.set_yscale("log") ax.set_xlabel("rating (net votes, symlog)") ax.set_ylabel("pages (log)") median = float(np.median(ratings)) ax.axvline(median, color=INK, linestyle="--", linewidth=1) ax.text( median * 1.1, ax.get_ylim()[1] * 0.5, f"median {median:.0f}", color=INK, fontsize=9, ) _style_axes(ax, "Rating distribution") neg = int((ratings < 0).sum()) takeaway = ( f"Ratings are extremely right-skewed: a median of {median:.0f} against a maximum of " f"{ratings.max():,.0f} (SCP-173). Only {neg} pages sit below zero — the community " "deletes weak work, so what remains is heavily curated." ) return _img( "Rating distribution", _save(fig, images, "rating_distribution"), takeaway, ) def chart_length_distribution(con: duckdb.DuckDBPyConnection, images: Path) -> str: """Histogram of article (source) length on a log x-axis.""" lengths = np.array( [ r[0] for r in con.execute( "SELECT length(source) FROM pages WHERE source IS NOT NULL AND length(source) > 0" ).fetchall() ] ) bins = np.logspace(np.log10(lengths.min()), np.log10(lengths.max()), 50) fig, ax = plt.subplots(figsize=(10, 5)) ax.hist( lengths, bins=bins.tolist(), color="#4f8a5b", edgecolor="white", linewidth=0.3 ) ax.set_xscale("log") ax.set_xlabel("source length (characters, log)") ax.set_ylabel("pages") median = float(np.median(lengths)) ax.axvline(median, color=INK, linestyle="--", linewidth=1) ax.text( median * 1.1, ax.get_ylim()[1] * 0.9, f"median {median:,.0f} chars", color=INK, fontsize=9, ) _style_axes(ax, "Article length") takeaway = ( f"Article length is roughly log-normal around a median of {median:,.0f} characters " f"(a few pages of text), with a long tail of giant hubs and anthologies reaching " f"{lengths.max():,.0f} characters." ) return _img( "Article length", _save(fig, images, "length_distribution"), takeaway, ) def chart_author_pareto(con: duckdb.DuckDBPyConnection, images: Path) -> str: """Lorenz curve of how unequally pages are distributed across authors.""" counts = np.array( sorted( r[0] for r in con.execute( "SELECT count(*) FROM page_authors GROUP BY author" ).fetchall() ) ) cum = np.cumsum(counts) / counts.sum() frac_authors = np.arange(1, len(counts) + 1) / len(counts) desc = counts[::-1] top2 = desc[: max(1, len(desc) // 50)].sum() / counts.sum() solo = int((counts == 1).sum()) fig, ax = plt.subplots(figsize=(7.5, 6.5)) ax.plot( [0, 1], [0, 1], color=MUTED, linestyle="--", linewidth=1, label="perfect equality", ) ax.plot(frac_authors, cum, color=ACCENT, linewidth=2.2, label="actual") ax.fill_between(frac_authors, cum, frac_authors, color=ACCENT, alpha=0.08) ax.set_xlabel("share of authors (least to most prolific)") ax.set_ylabel("share of pages") ax.set_xlim(0, 1) ax.set_ylim(0, 1) ax.legend(loc="upper left") _style_axes(ax, "Authorship is a power law") takeaway = ( "Counting every credited author (not just whoever posted the page), contribution is " f"steeply unequal: the most prolific 2% hold {top2:.0%} of all author credits, while " f"{solo:,} authors have a single credit. A small core sustains the wiki." ) return _img( "Authorship is a power law", _save(fig, images, "author_pareto"), takeaway, ) def chart_rating_vs_length(con: duckdb.DuckDBPyConnection, images: Path) -> str: """Scatter of rating vs article length, with the (flat) trend.""" rows = con.execute( "SELECT length(source), rating FROM pages " "WHERE rating > 0 AND source IS NOT NULL AND length(source) > 0" ).fetchall() length = np.array([r[0] for r in rows]) rating = np.array([r[1] for r in rows]) r = float(np.corrcoef(length, rating)[0, 1]) fig, ax = plt.subplots(figsize=(9, 6)) ax.scatter(length, rating, s=6, alpha=0.18, color=ACCENT, edgecolors="none") ax.set_xscale("log") ax.set_yscale("log") ax.set_xlabel("source length (characters, log)") ax.set_ylabel("rating (log, positive-rated pages)") # Median rating per length-decile, to show the flat relationship clearly. edges = np.logspace(np.log10(length.min()), np.log10(length.max()), 11) centers, meds = [], [] for lo, hi in itertools.pairwise(edges): sel = (length >= lo) & (length < hi) if sel.any(): centers.append((lo * hi) ** 0.5) meds.append(np.median(rating[sel])) ax.plot( centers, meds, color=INK, linewidth=2, marker="o", markersize=4, label="median by length", ) ax.legend(loc="upper left") _style_axes(ax, "Does length buy quality? No.") takeaway = ( f"Rating and article length are essentially uncorrelated (r = {r:.02f}). The median " "rating is flat across the whole length range — a longer article is not a " "better-rated one. Concept and execution, not word count, drive a page's score." ) return _img( "Does length buy quality? No.", _save(fig, images, "rating_vs_length"), takeaway, ) def chart_rating_by_year(con: duckdb.DuckDBPyConnection, images: Path) -> str: """Line chart of mean and median rating per creation year.""" rows = con.execute(""" SELECT year(created_at) yr, round(avg(rating), 1), median(rating) FROM pages WHERE rating IS NOT NULL GROUP BY yr ORDER BY yr """).fetchall() years = [r[0] for r in rows] mean = [r[1] for r in rows] med = [r[2] for r in rows] fig, ax = plt.subplots(figsize=(10, 5.2)) ax.plot( years, mean, color=ACCENT, linewidth=2.2, marker="o", markersize=4, label="mean", ) ax.plot( years, med, color=ACCENT2, linewidth=2.2, marker="s", markersize=4, label="median", ) ax.set_ylabel("rating") ax.legend(loc="upper right") ax.margins(x=0.02) ax.set_xticks(range(min(years), max(years) + 1, 2)) _style_axes(ax, "Ratings fall with each cohort") takeaway = ( f"Average rating slides from {mean[0]:.0f} in 2008 to {mean[-1]:.0f} in 2026. This is " "mostly an age effect — older pages have had years to accumulate up-votes — rather " "than proof that newer writing is worse; the median falls far more gently than the mean." ) return _img( "Ratings fall with each cohort", _save(fig, images, "rating_by_year"), takeaway, ) def chart_rating_by_class(con: duckdb.DuckDBPyConnection, images: Path) -> str: """Bar of average rating by object class.""" rows = con.execute(""" SELECT t.tag, round(avg(p.rating), 1) ar, count(*) n FROM page_tags t JOIN pages p ON p.url = t.page_url WHERE t.tag IN ('safe','euclid','keter','thaumiel','neutralized','explained','apollyon','archon') GROUP BY t.tag ORDER BY ar """).fetchall() labels = [r[0] for r in rows] avg = [r[1] for r in rows] colors = [ACCENT if a >= avg[len(avg) // 2] else ACCENT2 for a in avg] fig, ax = plt.subplots(figsize=(9, 5)) bars = ax.barh(labels, avg, color=colors) ax.bar_label(bars, padding=4, fmt="{:.0f}", color=SUBINK, fontsize=9) ax.set_xlabel("mean rating") ax.margins(x=0.12) _style_axes(ax, "Danger sells") best = max(rows, key=lambda x: x[1]) takeaway = ( f"The more dangerous the classification, the higher the average score: Apollyon " f"({best[1]:.0f}) and Keter top the table, while Safe and Neutralized trail. Readers " "reward existential threat over the mundane." ) return _img( "Danger sells", _save(fig, images, "rating_by_class"), takeaway, ) def chart_prolific_vs_acclaimed(con: duckdb.DuckDBPyConnection, images: Path) -> str: """Bubble scatter of authors: output vs acclaim, sized by total rating.""" rows = con.execute(""" SELECT pa.author, count(*) n, avg(p.rating) ar, sum(p.rating) total FROM page_authors pa JOIN pages p ON p.url = pa.url WHERE p.rating IS NOT NULL GROUP BY pa.author HAVING count(*) >= 10 """).fetchall() n = np.array([r[1] for r in rows]) ar = np.array([r[2] for r in rows]) total = np.array([r[3] for r in rows]) fig, ax = plt.subplots(figsize=(10, 6.5)) ax.scatter( n, ar, s=np.clip(total / 200, 8, 600), alpha=0.45, color=ACCENT, edgecolors="white", linewidth=0.4, ) ax.set_xscale("log") ax.set_xlabel("pages written (log)") ax.set_ylabel("mean rating") # Label a few notable authors: most prolific and most acclaimed. notable = ( set(np.argsort(n)[-4:]) | set(np.argsort(ar)[-4:]) | set(np.argsort(total)[-4:]) ) for i in notable: ax.annotate( rows[i][0], (float(n[i]), float(ar[i])), fontsize=8.5, color=INK, xytext=(5, 4), textcoords="offset points", ) _style_axes(ax, "Prolific vs. acclaimed authors") takeaway = ( "Counting every credited author (co-authors included), output and acclaim remain " "different games: the most prolific cluster at modest average ratings, while the " "highest-rated are comparatively selective — bubble size (total score) shows a few " "writers manage both volume and quality." ) return _img( "Prolific vs. acclaimed authors", _save(fig, images, "prolific_vs_acclaimed"), takeaway, ) def chart_coauthorship_over_time(con: duckdb.DuckDBPyConnection, images: Path) -> str: """Line: share of pages with two or more credited authors, by year.""" rows = con.execute(f""" WITH ac AS ( SELECT url, count(DISTINCT name) AS k FROM credits WHERE role = 'AUTHOR' AND name NOT IN {_PLACEHOLDERS} GROUP BY url ) SELECT year(p.created_at) AS yr, count(*) AS total, count(*) FILTER (WHERE coalesce(ac.k, 0) >= 2) AS co FROM pages p LEFT JOIN ac ON ac.url = p.url GROUP BY yr ORDER BY yr """).fetchall() years = [r[0] for r in rows] pct = [100.0 * r[2] / r[1] for r in rows] fig, ax = plt.subplots(figsize=(10, 5.2)) ax.plot(years, pct, color=ACCENT, linewidth=2.4, marker="o", markersize=4) ax.fill_between(years, pct, color=ACCENT, alpha=0.08) ax.set_ylabel("% of pages with ≥2 credited authors") ax.set_ylim(0, max(pct) * 1.15) ax.set_xticks(range(min(years), max(years) + 1, 2)) _style_axes(ax, "Co-authorship over time") peak = max(pct) takeaway = ( f"Co-authorship has climbed from near zero to about {peak:.0f}% of pages in recent years " "— modern SCP is increasingly a team effort (2026 is a partial year). Early collaboration " "is undercounted: the attribution metadata recording co-authors is a later convention." ) return _img( "Co-authorship over time", _save(fig, images, "coauthorship_over_time"), takeaway, ) def chart_rating_by_team(con: duckdb.DuckDBPyConnection, images: Path) -> str: """Bar: median rating by number of credited authors.""" rows = con.execute(""" WITH per_page AS ( SELECT pa.url, any_value(p.rating) AS rating, count(*) AS n FROM page_authors pa JOIN pages p ON p.url = pa.url WHERE p.rating IS NOT NULL GROUP BY pa.url ), bucketed AS (SELECT rating, least(n, 4) AS team FROM per_page) SELECT team, count(*) AS pages, median(rating) AS med FROM bucketed GROUP BY team ORDER BY team """).fetchall() names = {1: "1 (solo)", 2: "2", 3: "3", 4: "4+"} labels = [names[r[0]] for r in rows] med = [r[2] for r in rows] counts = [r[1] for r in rows] fig, ax = plt.subplots(figsize=(9, 5)) bars = ax.bar(labels, med, color=ACCENT, width=0.62) ax.bar_label(bars, fmt="{:.0f}", padding=3, color=SUBINK, fontsize=10) for i, c in enumerate(counts): ax.text(i, max(med) * 0.04, f"n={c:,}", ha="center", color="white", fontsize=8) ax.set_ylabel("median rating") ax.set_xlabel("number of credited authors") _style_axes(ax, "Bigger teams, higher ratings") takeaway = ( f"Median rating rises with team size — from {med[0]:.0f} for solo pages to {med[-1]:.0f} " "for the largest teams. Collaboration correlates with a warmer reception, though the " "most ambitious projects also tend to attract co-authors." ) return _img( "Bigger teams, higher ratings", _save(fig, images, "rating_by_team"), takeaway, ) def chart_collaboration_network(con: duckdb.DuckDBPyConnection, images: Path) -> str: """Circular network of co-authorship among the most-connected authors.""" edges = con.execute(""" WITH a AS (SELECT url, author FROM page_authors) SELECT x.author, y.author, count(*) AS w FROM a x JOIN a y ON x.url = y.url AND x.author < y.author GROUP BY x.author, y.author """).fetchall() pages = dict( con.execute( "SELECT author, count(*) FROM page_authors GROUP BY author" ).fetchall() ) # Rank authors by *recurring* collaboration (≥2 shared pages) so the named hub matches the # drawn edges; one-off links from mass-collaboration pages would otherwise dominate. recurring = [(a, b, w) for a, b, w in edges if w >= 2] degree: dict[str, int] = {} for a1, a2, w in recurring: degree[a1] = degree.get(a1, 0) + w degree[a2] = degree.get(a2, 0) + w top = [ a for a, _ in sorted(degree.items(), key=lambda kv: kv[1], reverse=True)[:26] ] rank = set(top) sub = [(a, b, w) for a, b, w in recurring if a in rank and b in rank] angles = np.linspace(0, 2 * np.pi, len(top), endpoint=False) xy = { a: (float(np.cos(t)), float(np.sin(t))) for a, t in zip(top, angles, strict=True) } maxw = max(e[2] for e in sub) fig, ax = plt.subplots(figsize=(9.5, 9.5)) for a, b, w in sub: (x1, y1), (x2, y2) = xy[a], xy[b] ax.plot( [x1, x2], [y1, y2], color=ACCENT, solid_capstyle="round", zorder=1, alpha=min(0.75, 0.10 + 0.65 * w / maxw), linewidth=0.4 + 3.0 * w / maxw, ) sizes = [float(np.clip(pages.get(a, 1) * 2.0, 30, 600)) for a in top] ax.scatter( [xy[a][0] for a in top], [xy[a][1] for a in top], s=sizes, color=INK, edgecolors="white", linewidth=0.6, zorder=2, ) for a, t in zip(top, angles, strict=True): deg = float(np.degrees(t)) flip = 90 < deg < 270 ax.text( 1.06 * np.cos(t), 1.06 * np.sin(t), a, fontsize=7.5, color=INK, ha="right" if flip else "left", va="center", rotation=deg + 180 if flip else deg, rotation_mode="anchor", ) ax.set_xlim(-1.5, 1.5) ax.set_ylim(-1.5, 1.5) ax.set_aspect("equal") ax.axis("off") ax.set_title("How authors collaborate", loc="left", pad=12) ax.figure.text(0.005, 0.005, CAPTION, fontsize=7.5, color=MUTED, ha="left") takeaway = ( f"Co-authorship forms tight clusters around a few hubs — {top[0]} is the most connected. " "Node size is total pages, edge weight is shared pages; the modern wiki is a densely " "woven collaborative network, not a crowd of soloists." ) return _img( "How authors collaborate", _save(fig, images, "collaboration_network"), takeaway, ) def chart_tag_cooccurrence(con: duckdb.DuckDBPyConnection, images: Path) -> str: """Heatmap of Jaccard association between the top theme tags.""" tags = [t for t, _ in _theme_tags(con, 14)] pairs = con.execute( """ SELECT a.tag, b.tag, count(*) FROM page_tags a JOIN page_tags b ON a.page_url = b.page_url WHERE a.tag = ANY($t) AND b.tag = ANY($t) GROUP BY a.tag, b.tag """, {"t": tags}, ).fetchall() idx = {t: i for i, t in enumerate(tags)} inter = np.zeros((len(tags), len(tags))) for a, b, c in pairs: inter[idx[a], idx[b]] = c freq = np.diag(inter).copy() jac = inter / (freq[:, None] + freq[None, :] - inter) np.fill_diagonal(jac, np.nan) fig, ax = plt.subplots(figsize=(8.5, 7.5)) im = ax.imshow(jac, cmap="rocket_r" if "rocket_r" in plt.colormaps() else "magma_r") ax.set_xticks(range(len(tags)), tags, rotation=45, ha="right", fontsize=9) ax.set_yticks(range(len(tags)), tags, fontsize=9) ax.grid(visible=False) fig.colorbar(im, ax=ax, fraction=0.046, pad=0.04, label="Jaccard similarity") ax.set_title("How themes cluster", loc="left", pad=12) ax.figure.text(0.005, 0.005, CAPTION, fontsize=7.5, color=MUTED, ha="left") iu = np.triu_indices(len(tags), k=1) bi, bj = iu[0][np.nanargmax(jac[iu])], iu[1][np.nanargmax(jac[iu])] takeaway = ( f"Themes form clear clusters. The strongest pairing is '{tags[bi]}' + '{tags[bj]}': " "entity descriptors (humanoid / sapient / alive) co-occur tightly, forming a " "'monster' cluster distinct from the genre tags." ) return _img( "How themes cluster", _save(fig, images, "tag_cooccurrence"), takeaway, ) # --- Tables --------------------------------------------------------------------------- def table_per_year(con: duckdb.DuckDBPyConnection) -> str: """Markdown table: one row per year with headline figures.""" rows = con.execute(""" WITH t AS ( SELECT p.url, year(p.created_at) yr, p.rating, p.title, max(tg.tag = 'scp')::int s, max(tg.tag = 'tale')::int tl FROM pages p LEFT JOIN page_tags tg ON tg.page_url = p.url GROUP BY p.url, yr, p.rating, p.title) SELECT yr, count(*), sum(s), sum(tl), round(avg(rating)), arg_max(title, rating) AS top FROM t GROUP BY yr ORDER BY yr """).fetchall() auth = dict( con.execute( "SELECT year(created_at), count(DISTINCT created_by_wikidot_id) FROM pages GROUP BY 1" ).fetchall() ) table = _md_table( ["Year", "Pages", "SCPs", "Tales", "Authors", "Avg rating", "Top-rated page"], [ [ str(r[0]), f"{r[1]:,}", f"{r[2]:,}", f"{r[3]:,}", f"{auth[r[0]]:,}", f"{r[4]:.0f}", r[5], ] for r in rows ], ) takeaway = ( "Output and contributor counts climb together — more authors, more pages — while " "average rating declines with each younger cohort (an age effect, not a quality one)." ) return _section("Per-year summary", table, takeaway) def table_top_pages(con: duckdb.DuckDBPyConnection) -> str: """Markdown table of the 15 highest-rated pages.""" rows = con.execute(""" SELECT title, rating, vote_count, comment_count, created_by_display_name, year(created_at) FROM pages ORDER BY rating DESC LIMIT 15 """).fetchall() table = _md_table( ["#", "Title", "Rating", "Votes", "Comments", "Author", "Year"], [ [ str(i), r[0], f"{r[1]:,.0f}", f"{r[2]:,}", f"{r[3]:,}", r[4] or "—", str(r[5]), ] for i, r in enumerate(rows, 1) ], ) takeaway = ( "The canon is front-loaded with early classics — SCP-173, SCP-049, SCP-682 — that " "have compounded votes for over a decade, alongside a few modern breakouts like SCP-5000." ) return _section("Top 15 highest-rated pages", table, takeaway) def table_top_authors(con: duckdb.DuckDBPyConnection) -> str: """Markdown table of the 15 most-credited authors (all-authors rule).""" rows = con.execute(""" WITH team AS (SELECT url, count(*) AS n FROM page_authors GROUP BY url) SELECT pa.author, count(*) AS pages, round(avg(p.rating)) AS ar, round(sum(p.rating)) AS tot, round(100.0 * count(*) FILTER (WHERE team.n >= 2) / count(*)) AS collab, arg_max(p.title, p.rating) AS best FROM page_authors pa JOIN pages p ON p.url = pa.url JOIN team ON team.url = pa.url WHERE p.rating IS NOT NULL GROUP BY pa.author ORDER BY pages DESC LIMIT 15 """).fetchall() table = _md_table( [ "#", "Author", "Pages", "Avg rating", "Total rating", "Co-authored", "Best-rated work", ], [ [ str(i), r[0], f"{r[1]:,}", f"{r[2]:.0f}", f"{r[3]:,.0f}", f"{r[4]:.0f}%", r[5], ] for i, r in enumerate(rows, 1) ], ) takeaway = ( "The most prolific authors are not the highest-scoring on average — volume and acclaim " "rarely coincide — but their cumulative totals show how much of the wiki rests on a few " "dozen people. The co-authored share shows how collaboratively each writer works." ) return _section("Top 15 authors (all credited authors)", table, takeaway) def table_coauthor_duos(con: duckdb.DuckDBPyConnection) -> str: """Markdown table of the most frequent co-author pairs.""" rows = con.execute(""" WITH a AS (SELECT url, author FROM page_authors) SELECT x.author, y.author, count(*) AS n, round(avg(p.rating)) AS ar FROM a x JOIN a y ON x.url = y.url AND x.author < y.author JOIN pages p ON p.url = x.url WHERE p.rating IS NOT NULL GROUP BY x.author, y.author ORDER BY n DESC LIMIT 12 """).fetchall() table = _md_table( ["#", "Author A", "Author B", "Shared pages", "Avg rating"], [ [str(i), r[0], r[1], f"{r[2]:,}", f"{r[3]:.0f}"] for i, r in enumerate(rows, 1) ], ) takeaway = ( "The wiki's tightest writing partnerships — recurring duos that have co-authored many " "pages together, several rating well above the site median." ) return _section("Top co-author duos", table, takeaway) def table_most_collaborative(con: duckdb.DuckDBPyConnection) -> str: """Markdown table of authors with the most distinct co-authors.""" rows = con.execute(""" WITH a AS (SELECT url, author FROM page_authors) SELECT x.author, count(DISTINCT y.author) AS partners, count(DISTINCT x.url) AS pages FROM a x JOIN a y ON x.url = y.url AND x.author <> y.author GROUP BY x.author ORDER BY partners DESC LIMIT 15 """).fetchall() table = _md_table( ["#", "Author", "Distinct co-authors", "Co-authored pages"], [[str(i), r[0], f"{r[1]:,}", f"{r[2]:,}"] for i, r in enumerate(rows, 1)], ) takeaway = ( "The community's connectors — authors who have written with the widest circle of " "collaborators, knitting otherwise separate clusters together." ) return _section("Most collaborative authors", table, takeaway) def table_top_rewriters(con: duckdb.DuckDBPyConnection) -> str: """Markdown table of authors credited with the most rewrites.""" rows = con.execute(f""" SELECT name, count(*) AS n, round(avg(rating)) AS ar FROM credits WHERE role = 'REWRITE' AND name NOT IN {_PLACEHOLDERS} GROUP BY name ORDER BY n DESC LIMIT 12 """).fetchall() table = _md_table( ["#", "Rewriter", "Pages rewritten", "Avg rating"], [[str(i), r[0], f"{r[1]:,}", f"{r[2]:.0f}"] for i, r in enumerate(rows, 1)], ) takeaway = ( "The canon's caretakers: a small group does most of the rewriting that keeps the early, " "heavily-trafficked articles current." ) return _section("Top rewriters", table, takeaway) # --- Orchestration -------------------------------------------------------------------- _CHARTS = ( chart_pages_per_year, chart_object_classes, chart_top_themes, chart_rating_distribution, chart_length_distribution, chart_author_pareto, chart_rating_vs_length, chart_rating_by_year, chart_rating_by_class, chart_prolific_vs_acclaimed, chart_coauthorship_over_time, chart_rating_by_team, chart_tag_cooccurrence, chart_collaboration_network, ) _TABLES = ( table_per_year, table_top_pages, table_top_authors, table_coauthor_duos, table_most_collaborative, table_top_rewriters, ) def main(argv: list[str] | None = None) -> int: """Generate every chart and table and write the Markdown report.""" parser = argparse.ArgumentParser( description="Generate the SCP dataset statistics showcase.", formatter_class=argparse.ArgumentDefaultsHelpFormatter, ) parser.add_argument("--db", default=DEFAULT_DB, help="DuckDB database path") parser.add_argument( "--images", default=DEFAULT_IMAGES, help="Image output directory", ) parser.add_argument("--report", default=DEFAULT_REPORT, help="Markdown report path") args = parser.parse_args(argv) logging.basicConfig( level=logging.INFO, format="%(asctime)s %(levelname)-7s %(message)s", datefmt="%H:%M:%S", ) images = Path(args.images) images.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True) setup_style() con = duckdb.connect(args.db, read_only=True) con.execute(_VIEWS_SQL) # register the `credits` and `page_authors` views sections: list[str] = [] try: for fn in _CHARTS: logger.info("chart %s", fn.__name__) sections.append(fn(con, images)) for tfn in _TABLES: logger.info("table %s", tfn.__name__) sections.append(tfn(con)) finally: con.close() report = Path(args.report) header = ( "# The SCP Foundation Wiki in Numbers\n\n" f"_{CAPTION}._\n\n" "A statistical tour of every content page (SCPs, tales, hubs, GOI formats and more) " "on the English SCP Wiki, built from the Crom API. Each figure below is followed by " "the conclusion it supports.\n" ) report.write_text(header + "\n" + "\n".join(sections), encoding="utf-8") logger.info("Wrote %s and %d images to %s/", report, len(_CHARTS), images) return 0 if __name__ == "__main__": raise SystemExit(main())