Re: [Wiki-research-l] Finding the most viewed Wikipedia articles on education

Here are all 96610 subcategories of Education, with 2.6 million articles. The problem is sometimes one unexpected subcategory can draw in lots of unexpected content, and the most viewed article can thus be totally off-topic. I could do some iterations and prune the tree into something more manageable, by blacklisting weird subbranches. https://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/pageviews/categorized/wp-en/2016-02/c… Erik Zachte *From:* Wiki-research-l [mailto: wiki-research-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org] *On Behalf Of *Leila Zia *Sent:* Thursday, April 21, 2016 23:13 *To:* Research into Wikimedia content and communities *Subject:* Re: [Wiki-research-l] Finding the most viewed Wikipedia articles on education John, I played with Wikipedia Tools for Google and I'm sure it will do what you're looking for. Check out this <https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1HeFluqXXcSXw14pk_hceKbuxykNaTjOJMLrNxs81Ifk/edit#gid=0> Google spreadsheet. You just have to repeat a slightly modified formula in columns B and C to get what you have in column D for all subcategories of Education listed in A. You can automate that part, too. L On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 12:39 PM, john cummings &lt;mrjohncummings(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: Hi Leila Thanks very much, what I need to be able to do is get all the articles within the category and subcategories of Category:Education and then get page views for all of them, its a lot of pages...... My friend Ed Saperia created a spreadsheet to do this but unfortunately the query API limits to a few 100 articles so its not possible to run the query through that. Any other suggestions would be very much appreciated. Thanks John On 21 April 2016 at 18:54, Leila Zia &lt;leila(a)wikimedia.org&gt; wrote: 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 &lt;mrjohncummings(a)gmail.com&gt; 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 _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l