Re: [Toolserver-l] Tracking external link statistics over time

On 11/29/2011 11:18 PM, Platonides wrote: I succeeded to do this in 120 lines of Perl. First I parse page.sql, where page_id and page_namespace are the first two columns, setting up a bitmap to indicate which page_id are in the relevant namespaces (article, File, Author, Creator, Index, Museum, Portal). Then I parse externallinks.sql, where el_from (= page_id) and el_to (= the URL) are the first two columns. I check if el_from is in my bitmap and cut out the domain name from the URL, counting its occurrences in a hash. Finally, I sort the hash keys to get the output in alphabetic order, and print only those domains that have 10 links or more (the long tail of less popular domains are of no interest to me). For both commonswiki and enwiki, this runs in 12 minutes and the RAM footprint on wolfsbane stays under 250 MB. It takes far longer to download the database dumps to the toolserver. It would make sense to run this on dumps.wikimedia.org, as part of the dump process. For those wikis I have tested, the output looks very similar to what I got from looking at the replicated database, except that all external links to WMF sites seem to have been removed from the SQL dumps. Based on the database dump of frwiki-20111123, I got: 350570 toolserver.org 90505 culture.gouv.fr 52081 legifrance.gouv.fr 51837 imdb.fr 50189 akas.imdb.com 46754 books.google.fr 38654 ncbi.nlm.nih.gov 38184 recensement.insee.fr 36028 catalogueoflife.org 35382 insee.fr Based on the live, replicated frwiki_p database: 352260 toolserver.org 101619 commons.wikimedia.org 90281 culture.gouv.fr 82110 en.wikipedia.org 52161 legifrance.gouv.fr 52026 imdb.fr 50379 akas.imdb.com 46860 books.google.fr 38715 ncbi.nlm.nih.gov 38197 recensement.insee.fr -- Lars Aronsson (lars(a)aronsson.se) Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se