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Hi Jeff,
Let me give it a try:
* Re pageviews: a lot has changed since the Kaggle contest days you
refer to. :) I highly recommend you check out
where our hourly
pageviews per article live. In case you need it, abbreviations used in
the file names are documented. [2]
* Can you expand more what you are trying to do? The short answer for
your category related question is that you have to parse XML dumps,
but we may have some good pointers for you to save you from that. If
you tell us more, we're more likely to be able to help.
* And, if you decide to continue research on Wiki(m|p)edia data (which
I hope you do:), consider signing up in our public research list at
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Leila Zia
Senior Research Scientist, Lead
Wikimedia Foundation
On Wed, May 23, 2018 at 3:22 PM, Wikimedia Answers
<answers(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Forwarding for your evaluation :) Feel free to include
the wider Research
team.
best,
Joe
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From: Jeffrey Levesque <jlevesqu(a)syr.edu>
Date: Tue, May 22, 2018 at 7:48 AM
Subject: Re: Jeff Levesque: List of Articles By Categories (College Project)
To: "info-en(a)wikimedia.org" <info-en(a)wikimedia.org>
Cc: "answers(a)wikimedia.org" <answers(a)wikimedia.org>
Hi,
Is there a known API, where I can supply the article name, and attain the
corresponding "category" the article belongs to? I'm thinking I could
write
a python script and iterate the kaggle dataset, then send some POST request
to hopefully some existing API, to determine the articles "category".
Thank you,
Jeff Levesque
https://github.com/jeff1evesque
On May 22, 2018, at 10:37 AM, Jeffrey Levesque <jlevesqu(a)syr.edu> wrote:
Hi,
Do you guys have a more recent time series of Wikipedia article traffic. I'm
noticing that the kaggle dataset does not have a lot of articles that are on
Wikipedia. Do you guys have a good idea of how I can categorize the dataset
I have?
Thank you,
Jeff Levesque
https://github.com/jeff1evesque
On May 22, 2018, at 8:40 AM, Jeffrey Levesque <jlevesqu(a)syr.edu> wrote:
Hi,
I am masters student at Syracuse University. For my data science class, I am
doing a project trying to analyze traffic patterns for Wikipedia. I’ve
attained the Kaggle dataset for 2015-2016 data:
https://www.kaggle.com/headsortails/wiki-traffic-forecast-exploration-wtf-e…
However, the dataset only provides the frequency of visits to particular
pages on a given day. Could I request to attain a list of articles grouped
by “Categories”? I’ve tried to use the API (i.e.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Export). But, that doesn’t seem to
generate a full output. Additionally, in the list it supplies subcategories.
So, I tried using the URL API (i.e.
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=categorymembers&am…)format=json).
But, that also seems to return an even shorter result set:
{"batchcomplete":"","continue":{"cmcontinue":"page|2d2941313f2b292d3d0447454f31434f39293f011701dc16|55503653","continue":"-||"},"query":{"categorymembers":[{"pageid":22939,"ns":0,"title":"Physics"},{"pageid":24489,"ns":0,"title":"Outline
of
physics"},{"pageid":3445246,"ns":0,"title":"Glossary
of classical
physics"},{"pageid":1653925,"ns":100,"title":"Portal:Physics"},{"pageid":50926902,"ns":0,"title":"Action
angle
coordinates"},{"pageid":9079863,"ns":0,"title":"Aerometer"},{"pageid":52657328,"ns":0,"title":"Bayesian
model of computational
anatomy"},{"pageid":49342572,"ns":0,"title":"Group
actions in computational
anatomy"},{"pageid":50724262,"ns":0,"title":"Blasius\u2013Chaplygin
formula"},{"pageid":33327002,"ns":0,"title":"Cabbeling"}]}}
Thank you,
Jeff Levesque
(603) 969-5363