[Labs-l] Backlinks counter for Wikipedia articles?

Tue Sep 9 15:01:49 UTC 2014

Plain text file would be best, one article title per row

On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 10:43 AM, Navino Evans <navino at histropedia.com>
wrote:

> Most definitely! That would be absolutely fantastic.
>
> What format of list would be most useful for you to work with?
> On 9 Sep 2014 15:38, "John" <phoenixoverride at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Its not that big of a deal, once i set the system up. is it possible to
>> have you post the list in a static location on your webserver? I could then
>> just have the bot grab and use that list.
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 10:35 AM, Navino Evans <navino at histropedia.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> That's great to know, thank you.
>>>
>>> We'll make sure we only use the API within that limit - basically just
>>> for individual calls when a user adds a new event to our database.
>>>
>>> For the bulk processing, we would need to update the backlinks
>>> information as a monthly maintenance task, so I wouldn't want to trouble
>>> you with this each time.
>>>
>>> Would you rather we stick with data dump processing for the large scale
>>> stuff?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 9 Sep 2014 15:05, "John" <phoenixoverride at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> If you want a report on that many pages drop me a list of those titles
>>>> and and I can write a report for you given that volume of affected pages.
>>>>
>>>> I would say 1-2 seconds between quires should be reasonable for a
>>>> moderate volume of quires. Any large scale request I will do server side
>>>> and avoid hammering the web-servers for something that is better batched.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 9:58 AM, Navino Evans <navino at histropedia.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Once again, a huge thank you for taking the time to do this John -
>>>>> That's exactly what I was looking for!  - the helpfulness of this community
>>>>> never ceases to amaze me :)
>>>>>
>>>>> Hopefully I haven't initiated a journey down the rabbit hole into a
>>>>> fully fledged muliti-language counting machine ;)
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Can I just ask what the limit of reasonable use would be for making
>>>>> API calls to this new tool? (e.g. number of calls per day)
>>>>>
>>>>> It would be incredibly useful if we could use it to update the events
>>>>> in our database once a month (we are using it to rank historical events by
>>>>> 'importance'), but we are already have approximately 1.5 million events so
>>>>> am aware this may be way beyond what would be acceptable.
>>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 2:56 PM, John <phoenixoverride at gmail.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> That's doable, however it will require a little more time as I need
>>>>>> to unearth some old code to handle multi-projects/languages
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 9:51 AM, Jan Ainali <jan.ainali at wikimedia.se>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Awesome John!
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Now I only wish that one could specify language code also ;)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> *Med vänliga hälsningar,Jan Ainali*
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Verksamhetschef, Wikimedia Sverige
>>>>>>> <http://se.wikimedia.org/wiki/Huvudsida>
>>>>>>> 0729 - 67 29 48
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> *Tänk dig en värld där varje människa har fri tillgång till
>>>>>>> mänsklighetens samlade kunskap. Det är det vi gör.*
>>>>>>> Bli medlem. <http://blimedlem.wikimedia.se>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 2014-09-09 15:34 GMT+02:00 John <phoenixoverride at gmail.com>:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Per request, its no frills but what you what you asked for:
>>>>>>>> http://tools.wmflabs.org/betacommand-dev/cgi-bin/backlinks
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 8:32 AM, Navino Evans <
>>>>>>>> navino at histropedia.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> That is fantastic news... I'm incredibly grateful for the help and
>>>>>>>>> advice.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 1:27 PM, John <phoenixoverride at gmail.com>
>>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> 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=
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> More info at: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Backlinks
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> *Med vänliga hälsningar,Jan Ainali*
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Verksamhetschef, Wikimedia Sverige
>>>>>>>>>>> <http://se.wikimedia.org/wiki/Huvudsida>
>>>>>>>>>>> 0729 - 67 29 48
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> *Tänk dig en värld där varje människa har fri tillgång till
>>>>>>>>>>> mänsklighetens samlade kunskap. Det är det vi gör.*
>>>>>>>>>>> Bli medlem. <http://blimedlem.wikimedia.se>
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> 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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