On Tue, 6 Sep 2011 10:45:41 -0700, "R.Stuart Geiger" sgeiger@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks for the interest, John! I put the list of the top 250 up at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Most_wanted_articles -- but I didn't exactly publicize it. I guess this is my chance to do so now! Also, a list of the top 1000 redlinked articles is up on a separate page at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Most_wanted_articles/July_2011 and the entire dataset is up at http://toolserver.org/~swalker/redlink_list.csv -- note that it is 42.8mb!
If you have any other questions about the redlinks/bluelinks dataset, feel free to ask me. And you can check out the meta page for more fun links data, such as how many more links we added between 2009 and 2011, or incoming links to articles about countries / each country's population:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:One_Link,_Two_Links,_Red_Links,_Blue...
Stuart
Stuart Geiger User:Staeiou / @staeiou Ph.D student, UC-Berkeley School of Information
On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 10:19 AM, John Vandenberg jayvdb@gmail.com
wrote:
Thanks Steven, and the Community Department.
I am instantly drawn to the analysis of redlinks. Can we please have this data!! Article writers are on stand by ready to kill red links ;-)
The special page for this is dead.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:WantedPages
-- John Vandenberg
From what I see, the page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:WantedPages
is just misleading: For instance, one of the most ranking missing articles, [[Alison Campbell]], has all 5000+ links leading not from other articles, but from article talk pages, where it is not explicitly present, which means someone put this red link into one of the highly used templates for project evaluations (I did not investigate which one). I actually doubt that the person is even notable, though there is a short stub in Dutch Wikipedia. There is no way that this is really one of the most wanted articles. Others I tried from the first page share the same problem.
Cheers Yaroslav