Hi, I have a batch tool which collects article titles for any category and its subcategories (up to an arbitrary depth), then collects the page views for those articles for any given month and prints a sorted list. For optimal results the parsed category subtree often needs manual pruning (so weird subcategories can be blacklisted) or category depth should be kept modest.
Here's an example with top category 'WikiProject_Islands': http://ow.ly/QgahV
Tool is at http://ow.ly/QgbLO
But again it's a batch tool. One would have to download a file with monthly pageview totals from https://dumps.wikimedia.org/other/pagecounts-ez/merged/, or ask me to run a occasional ad hoc query.
Erik
From: analytics-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:analytics-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Raymond Leonard
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Subject: Re: [Analytics] New to list; please direct me to the tool(s) that I can use to determine per-page views per category/WikiProject
Michael,
Thanks! Your solution solves a different problem than I was looking for (list of page views of each article over time per a WikiProject), but having a comprehensive list of the pages under WikiProject_Seattle will undoubtedly be useful as well. Heck, I am tempted to install ActivePerl on my PC (used to have it on an earlier PC & also had access to a couple of Macs) to write a Perl script to convert the results into a .csv file to load it into Excel or the Libre Office equivalent.
Kudos to you & the UW iSchool.
On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 11:11 AM, Michael Gilbert <mdg@uw.edu> wrote:
Peaceray,
Though it should be considered largely only research ready (i.e., potentially unstable, so not ready for production-level always-on tools), I've created a service that syncs and provides details on current WikiProjects. For example:
https://alahele.ischool.uw.edu:8997/api/getProjects
Would return all current WikiProjects, defined as all pages in the Wikipedia namespace (4) starting with WikiProject_*, as well as pages in the Active_WikiProjects category on the Wikipedia namespace, allowing for both projects like WikiProject Seattle as well as Department of Fun to be recorded.
To get the pages under the scope of those projects, try:
https://alahele.ischool.uw.edu:8997/api/getProjectPages?project=WikiProject_Seattle
This currently returns 6,961 pages, including all pages under the project category as well as all sub-category pages to a depth of 2. It's possible something like this could be paired with stats.grok.se or the upcoming pageview API to get page view data on each of the Seattle-related articles (i.e., http://stats.grok.se/en/201507/Bitter_Lake,_Seattle), or, if you're looking for activity information you can get it from a separate request, below (which would return edits to the Space Needle page in the Article and Article Talk namespace, grouped by page, editor, and week, after March 5th, 2014):
https://alahele.ischool.uw.edu:8997/api/getEdits?page=Space_Needle&namespace=0|1&group=page|user|date&sd=20140305
(Rough) documentation and all the bits for the above are at: https://github.com/mdgilbert/wiki-tools (for instance, the syncProjects.py script is what collects the project and project-pages data).
(Also rough) documentation and the code for the node.js server which provides the data is at: https://github.com/mdgilbert/node-reflex
Any comments, suggestions, requests, etc always welcome. Cheers,
Michael Gilbert
Human Centered Design & Engineering, University of Washington
On 07/29/2015 09:59 AM, Raymond Leonard wrote: