Definitely consider the redirect :) https://mako.cc/copyrighteous/consider-the-redirect
Bruno Goncalves, 28/07/2016 22:00:
I've been trying to match edit activity with pagecounts
The first question is how much data you need. If a few months are enough, https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Pageviews_API may be easier.
Otherwise... https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:PAGENAMEE_encoding
Nemo