[Labs-l] Backlinks counter for Wikipedia articles?

Tue Sep 9 11:55:33 UTC 2014

Related tip: In the API you can get a list of backlinks (but you have to
count them yourself) from the main namespace including all redirects by a
query like this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=backlinks&format=json&bltitle=Example&blnamespace=0&blfilterredir=all&bllimit=250&blredirect=

More info at: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Backlinks

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2014-09-09 13:41 GMT+02:00 Navino Evans <navino at histropedia.com>:

> Wow! That would be awesome :)
>
> The API we are looking for can be as simple as sending a GET request to a
> url (http://www.somewhere.com/api/count?t=wikipedia_title_goes_here),
>  returning a number in "text/plain" format.
>
> The actual count that we're interested is for English Wikipedia only, and
> would ideally include the following, all added up into a single number:
>
> 1) All links from articles in Main Namespace only  (for our purpose it
> would be better to not include links from User pages, Talk pages etc if
> possible)
>
> 2) Including links from Redirect pages (e.g. counting a link from "Michel
> Jackson" redirect as part of the count from the article "Michael Jackson")
>
> 3) Excluding links that are within a template transcluded in an article
> (so we don't need to count the links inside Navboxes within an article for
> example)
>
> 4) For our purpose, it doesn't really matter whether transclusions of the
> actual page that is called are included in the count (we generally won't be
> using it for checking templates, timeline and list articles).
>
> Just to give the full picture for this request -  my use of this tool will
> be for a company (www.histropedia.com), so I wouldn't want to take up
> your time with this unless it's something you feel should be available for
> wider use. My plan was to get the developer working on our site to make
> this tool for the community if it didn't exist somewhere, but we would be
> reliant on datadumps so could not get live information (which would be
> incredibly useful for us, and I hope many others).
>
>
> On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 8:10 PM, John <phoenixoverride at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> What numbers/data do you want? I can whip up a replacement for it.
>>
>>
>> On Monday, September 8, 2014, Navino Evans <navino at histropedia.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> Hi all, does anyone know if there is a tool currently available for
>>> counting backlinks to Wikipedia articles via an API? I have been using this
>>> tool http://dispenser.homenet.org/~dispenser/cgi-bin/backlinkscount.py
>>> - but it seems to have finally gone offline completely following some
>>> recent controversy with user:Dispenser.
>>>
>>> Any advice much appreciated!
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Navino
>>>
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