[Labs-l] Backlinks counter for Wikipedia articles?

Tue Sep 9 13:34:19 UTC 2014

Per request, its no frills but what you what you asked for:
http://tools.wmflabs.org/betacommand-dev/cgi-bin/backlinks

On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 8:32 AM, Navino Evans <navino at histropedia.com> wrote:

> 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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