Hi John,
Two comments:
* Have you tried Wikipedia Tools for Google
<https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/wikipedia-tools/aiilcelhmpllcgkhhpifagfehbddkdfp?hl=en>?
It's a very neat add-on for Chrome, and in your case, the two functions
WIKICATEGORYMEMBERS and WIKIPAGEVIEWS may help you get what you want.
* If you are looking for having a list of articles related to Education
that are available in English and are missing in another language, you can
use the article recommendation API. For example:
http://recommend.wmflabs.org/api?s=en&t=fr&n=10&article=Educati… gives you
the top 10 recommendations for articles related to Education that are
available in English but missing in French. Note that "related" is not the
same as articles that are in category "Education" though I hope we can
accommodate categories in the future. The documentation for the API is in
here <https://github.com/ewulczyn/translation-recs-app/tree/master/api>.
Hope this helps.
Best,
Leila
Leila Zia
Research Scientist
Wikimedia Foundation
On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 5:04 AM, john cummings <mrjohncummings(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Hi all
I'm doing some work with colleagues from the education sector at UNESCO to
look at improving some of the most viewed education articles on English
language Wikipedia.
I'm trying to use TreeViews to get information on what are the most viewed
articles in Category:Education, unfortunately such large categories just
crash my browser, it means I will have to split the query up into at least
50-100 smaller queries.
Does anyone know of a less manual way around this? Ideally the output
would be spreadsheet of the article title and the number of page views of
the article for a 30, 60 or 90 period in the recent past. I will use
Treeviews if it is the only way but I'd really love to save myself from
half a day of data entry. I imagine this would also be useful for people
working with other organisations for other subjects.
Thanks
John
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