Hi folks, is there any way to retrieve the # of articles in a wikipedia language with a GET request or something similar?
I know, one can edit an article and put {{NUMBEROFARTICLES}} there, make a preview, and save the value, but it's kinda overkill to automate all that just to get a number. Is there a simple way to access that number?
Thanks, Alfio
On 29/04/05, Alfio Puglisi puglisi@arcetri.astro.it wrote:
Hi folks, is there any way to retrieve the # of articles in a wikipedia language with a GET request or something similar?
You could try GETting [[Special:Statistics]], and working out which of the numbers displayed is the number of articles (looking, it seems different languages put the number of *articles* and number of *pages* different ways around - perhaps you could compare the various numbers, and work out that there will always be less articles than pages, and less of either than edits, etc...)
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