If you share why kind of query you'd like to run, people on this list might
even write you an example Quarry :) See also:
People post query requests that
and others help them draft the right query for their needs.
On Wed, Mar 27, 2019 at 11:28 AM James Hare <jhare(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
I will also note that Quarry
<https://quarry.wmflabs.org/> is good for
querying database replicas – no Toolforge account required.
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*James Hare* (he/him)
Associate Product Manager
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
On Wed, Mar 27, 2019 at 9:30 AM Morten Wang <nettrom(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Haifeng,
In my experience, this depends on how many users you're looking to get
information about. Is it a few hundred? A few thousand? A million+?
If you are getting the edit history for a limited number of users (say a
few hundred to a few thousand), then using the API can work well. One
thing
to keep in mind when using the API is that your
requests might be
throttled
and/or there might be database lag. Are you using
a software library to
access the API? If not, I'd consider using one so that throttling/lag
doesn't become an issue, it's one of the reasons why I use Pywikibot
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Pywikibot> for API requests.
If you're interested in querying a large number of users (say tens of
thousands or more), then getting an account on Toolforge
<https://tools.wmflabs.org> so you can run SQL queries against the
replicated MediaWiki databases would make sense. I've frequently used
that
approach for data gathering for research
purposes.
Hope that helps! And if not, don't hesitate to ask questions :)
Cheers,
Morten
On Wed, 27 Mar 2019 at 07:22, Haifeng Zhang <haifeng1(a)andrew.cmu.edu>
wrote:
Dear folks,
Is there a good way to query a user's edit history, e.g., edit count
during a period?
My current solution is using usercontribs API (
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Usercontribs).
But, the process has been stalled maybe due to some query limit.
Thanks,
Haifeng Zhang
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