[Labs-l] Backlinks counter for Wikipedia articles?

Tue Sep 9 22:49:08 UTC 2014

Thanks for pointing this out Tim :)

I knew that I could apply for a toolserver, but didn't realise this would
include access to a replica of the database so thought we still wouldn't be
able to get what we were looking for this way. I will get the ball rolling
with this as soon as possible as we are very keen to start contributing to
the available tools and queries.

On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 4:49 PM, Tim Landscheidt <tim at tim-landscheidt.de>
wrote:

> 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?
>
> > [...]
>
> Do note that you don't have to channel all your requests
> through John :-).  Apparently, you have developers who could
> probably set up this themselves easily, so they could just
> apply for access.
>
> I'm not sure if there have been precedents, but I assume if
> you:
>
> 1. don't try to have WMF subsidize your business model,
>    i. e. don't move heavy lifting stuff to Labs just because
>    you want to save some CPU time,
>
> 2. ensure that all tools you create and run on Labs are re-
>    leased as open source, and
>
> 3. ideally make the query results usable by others
>
> there is nothing wrong with running those queries yourself.
>
> Tim
>
>
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