[Labs-l] Backlinks counter for Wikipedia articles?

Tue Sep 9 12:32:42 UTC 2014

That is fantastic news... I'm incredibly grateful for the help and advice.

On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 1:27 PM, John <phoenixoverride at gmail.com> wrote:

> Given the overhead of the API and that he only needs a count getting that
> info should be fairly easy via a python cgi wrapper around an sql query.
>
> The only thing that I cannot do is #3 since the software does not
> differentiate between links in templates and links not in templates. Its a
> requested feature for years now.
>
> Give me a few hours and ill get you the tool you want. This should be less
> than 30 minutes work
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 7:55 AM, Jan Ainali <jan.ainali at wikimedia.se>
> wrote:
>
>> Related tip: In the API you can get a list of backlinks (but you have to
>> count them yourself) from the main namespace including all redirects by a
>> query like this:
>>
>>
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=backlinks&format=json&bltitle=Example&blnamespace=0&blfilterredir=all&bllimit=250&blredirect=
>>
>> More info at: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Backlinks
>>
>>
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>> 2014-09-09 13:41 GMT+02:00 Navino Evans <navino at histropedia.com>:
>>
>>> Wow! That would be awesome :)
>>>
>>> The API we are looking for can be as simple as sending a GET request to
>>> a url (http://www.somewhere.com/api/count?t=wikipedia_title_goes_here),
>>>  returning a number in "text/plain" format.
>>>
>>> The actual count that we're interested is for English Wikipedia only,
>>> and would ideally include the following, all added up into a single number:
>>>
>>> 1) All links from articles in Main Namespace only  (for our purpose it
>>> would be better to not include links from User pages, Talk pages etc if
>>> possible)
>>>
>>> 2) Including links from Redirect pages (e.g. counting a link from
>>> "Michel Jackson" redirect as part of the count from the article "Michael
>>> Jackson")
>>>
>>> 3) Excluding links that are within a template transcluded in an article
>>> (so we don't need to count the links inside Navboxes within an article for
>>> example)
>>>
>>> 4) For our purpose, it doesn't really matter whether transclusions of
>>> the actual page that is called are included in the count (we generally
>>> won't be using it for checking templates, timeline and list articles).
>>>
>>> Just to give the full picture for this request -  my use of this tool
>>> will be for a company (www.histropedia.com), so I wouldn't want to take
>>> up your time with this unless it's something you feel should be available
>>> for wider use. My plan was to get the developer working on our site to make
>>> this tool for the community if it didn't exist somewhere, but we would be
>>> reliant on datadumps so could not get live information (which would be
>>> incredibly useful for us, and I hope many others).
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 8:10 PM, John <phoenixoverride at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> What numbers/data do you want? I can whip up a replacement for it.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Monday, September 8, 2014, Navino Evans <navino at histropedia.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi All,
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi all, does anyone know if there is a tool currently available for
>>>>> counting backlinks to Wikipedia articles via an API? I have been using this
>>>>> tool http://dispenser.homenet.org/~dispenser/cgi-bin/backlinkscount.py
>>>>> - but it seems to have finally gone offline completely following some
>>>>> recent controversy with user:Dispenser.
>>>>>
>>>>> Any advice much appreciated!
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>
>>>>> Navino
>>>>>
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