On Mon, Apr 2, 2018 at 7:47 AM, Dan Andreescu dandreescu@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hi Srdjan,
The data pipeline behind the API can't handle arbitrary skip or limit parameters, but there's a better way for the kind of question you have. We publish all the pageviews at https://dumps.wikimedia.org/ other/pagecounts-ez/, look at the "Hourly page views per article" section. I would imagine for your use case one month of data is enough, and you can get the top N articles for all wikis this way, where N is anything you want.
One suggestion here is that if you want to find articles that are consistently high-page-view (and not part of spike/trend-views), you increase the time-window to 6 months or longer.
Best, Leila
-- Leila Zia Senior Research Scientist, Lead Wikimedia Foundation