[Labs-l] Backlinks counter for Wikipedia articles?

Tue Sep 9 12:27:34 UTC 2014

Given the overhead of the API and that he only needs a count getting that
info should be fairly easy via a python cgi wrapper around an sql query.

The only thing that I cannot do is #3 since the software does not
differentiate between links in templates and links not in templates. Its a
requested feature for years now.

Give me a few hours and ill get you the tool you want. This should be less
than 30 minutes work

On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 7:55 AM, Jan Ainali <jan.ainali at wikimedia.se> wrote:

> 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=
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> 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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