Hi,
You don't need the full dumps. Look at (for example) the tr.wp dump that is running at the moment:
http://download.wikimedia.org/trwiki/20100924/
you'll see the text dumps and also dumps of various SQL tables. Look at the one that is labelled "Wiki interlanguage link records."
You ought to be able to reasonably download those for all of the 'pedias that you are interested in; it will certainly be better than trawling with the API. They have (if I understand correctly what you are asking) just the data you want.
Cheers, Robert
On 9/24/10, Max Semenik maxsem.wiki@gmail.com wrote:
On 24.09.2010, 14:32 Robin wrote:
I would like to collect data on interlanguage links for academic research purposes. I really do not want to use the dumps, since I would need to download dumps of all language Wikipedias, which would be huge. I have written a script which goes through the API, but I am wondering how often it is acceptable for me to query the API. Assuming I do not run parallel queries, do I need to wait between each query? If so, how long?
Crawling all the Wikipedias is not an easy task either. Probably, toolserver.org would be more suitable. What data do you need, exactly?
-- Best regards, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]])
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