[Mediawiki-l] Wikipedia API call limit

[Sumana Harihareswara]

Forwarding this question on behalf of someone from the Public Library of
Science -- please reply both to me and to her, as she's not on the list.
 Thanks.

>>> On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 10:56 PM, Jennifer Lin <jlin at plos.org> wrote:
> >>>> Hi, Daniel.  I received your contact info from Peter Binfield.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> At PLoS, we are extending our ALM app to include Wikipedia citations
> >>>> for PLoS articles, but recently came upon an issue, which we’ve
> >>>> logged with your developers.
> >>>>
> >>>> https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32026
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> The gist of it is that the Wiki API has a limitation of 100 returns.
> >>>> For PLoS articles that are referenced more than 100 times, we get
> >>>> back a different set of results each time.  Some of the same sources
> >>>> are returned, some new ones.  Although we have the total number of
> >>>> citations, we do not know if we are capturing all of them, even
if we
> >>>> run the query many times over.  Seems likely that there could be a
> >>>> more efficient way of pulling the exhaustive set.  The bug report
explains the technical details.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Although there was some initial contact with a Wiki developer,
> >>>> activity seems to have stopped.  Do you have any suggestions on how
> >>>> to proceed at this point in time?  We are very eager to add
Wikipedia
> >>>> as an ALM source given its importance to the research community
at large.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Thanks so much, Daniel.
> >>>>
> >>>> Cheers, -jlin
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Jennifer Lin
> >>>>
> >>>> Public Library of Science, Product Manager
> >>>>
> >>>> (415) 935-2095
> >>>>
> >>>> 1160 Battery Street
> >>>> Koshland Building East, Suite 100
> >>>> San Francisco, CA 94111, USA


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Sumana Harihareswara
Volunteer Development Coordinator
Wikimedia Foundation