[Labs-l] Backlinks counter for Wikipedia articles?

Tue Sep 9 13:56:37 UTC 2014

That's doable, however it will require a little more time as I need to
unearth some old code to handle multi-projects/languages

On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 9:51 AM, Jan Ainali <jan.ainali at wikimedia.se> wrote:

> 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*
>>>>>
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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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