On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 1:05 AM, Finn Aarup Nielsen
<fn@imm.dtu.dk> wrote:
Den 09-11-2012 04:38, Rami Al-Rfou' skrev:
I am interested into counting the number of revisions every page went
through. I was wondering if it is possible to count that without using
the whole history dump. I mean is it available in the schema directly?
Is it computable without having the revisions text downloaded?
If you have toolserver access you can readily do it. Embarrassingly I cannot find a tool on the toolserver that already does that.
There is the Wikichecker that shows a count:
http://en.wikichecker.com/article/?a=Denmark
Just be aware that the site is still in beta, and that e.g.
http://en.wikichecker.com/article/?a=Barack+Obama claims that the English Wikipedia's article on Barack Obama was started in July 2012 and has received 485 non-bot edits (the real number is likely over 20,000).
Moreover, many of my future projects will benefit a lot if Wikipedia has
incremental dumps of their database. Any one aware of something relevant
or close?
It is possible that this paper can help you:
"Wikipedia Revision Toolkit: Efficiently Accessing Wikipedia's Edit History"
https://code.google.com/p/jwpl/
/Finn
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