Mike's suggestion is good. You would likely get
better responses by
asking this question to the Wikimedia developers, so I am forwarding to
that list.
Risker
On Thu, 16 Sept 2021 at 14:04, Gava, Cristina via Wikimedia-l <
wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> wrote:
Hello everyone,
It is my first time interacting in this mailing list, so I will be happy
to receive further feedbacks on how to better interact with the community :)
I am trying to access Wikipedia meta data in a streaming and
time/resource sustainable manner. By meta data I mean many of the voices
that can be found in the statistics of a wiki article, such as edits,
editors list, page views etc.
I would like to do such for an online classifier type of structure:
retrieve the data from a big number of wiki pages every tot time and use it
as input for predictions.
I tried to use the Wiki API, however it is time and resource expensive,
both for me and Wikipedia.
My preferred choice now would be to query the specific tables in the
Wikipedia database, in the same way this is done through the Quarry tool.
The problem with Quarry is that I would like to build a standalone script,
without having to depend on a user interface like Quarry. Do you think that
this is possible? I am still fairly new to all of this and I don’t know
exactly which is the best direction.
I saw [1] <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Data> that I could
access wiki replicas both through Toolforge and PAWS, however I didn’t
understand which one would serve me better, could I ask you for some
feedback?
Also, as far as I understood [2]
<https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Analytics/Data_Lake>, directly
accessing the DB through Hive is too technical for what I need, right?
Especially because it seems that I would need an account with production
shell access and I honestly don’t think that I would be granted access to
it. Also, I am not interested in accessing sensible and private data.
Last resource is parsing analytics dumps, however this seems less organic
in the way of retrieving and polishing the data. As also, it would be
strongly decentralised and physical-machine dependent, unless I upload the
polished data online every time.
Sorry for this long message, but I thought it was better to give you a
clearer picture (hoping this is clear enough). If you could give me even
some hint it would be highly appreciated.
Best,
Cristina
[1]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Data
[2]
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Analytics/Data_Lake
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