[Labs-l] Backlinks counter for Wikipedia articles?

Tue Sep 9 13:51:05 UTC 2014

Awesome John!

Now I only wish that one could specify language code also ;)

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2014-09-09 15:34 GMT+02:00 John <phoenixoverride at gmail.com>:

> 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
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> *Med vänliga hälsningar,Jan Ainali*
>>>>
>>>> Verksamhetschef, Wikimedia Sverige
>>>> <http://se.wikimedia.org/wiki/Huvudsida>
>>>> 0729 - 67 29 48
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> *Tänk dig en värld där varje människa har fri tillgång till
>>>> mänsklighetens samlade kunskap. Det är det vi gör.*
>>>> Bli medlem. <http://blimedlem.wikimedia.se>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 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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