On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 10:46 AM, Daniel Mietchen
<daniel.mietchen(a)googlemail.com> wrote:
Hello together,
in the framework of a GLAM project, we are looking for ways to
(1) identify the number of pages in a given category - including via
subcategories - on a given wiki
You can get the list of subcategories of a category with
list=categorymembers&cmtype=subcat. You'd have to make calls to this
for each individual (sub)category you're interested in, and be sure to
detect cycles properly.
You can get the number of pages in a category with prop=categoryinfo.
You can batch this by specifying up to 50 titles per query (500 if
your account has the "apihighlimits" userright).
If you're going to be doing a lot of this, it might be better to
perform queries directly against the database, either by downloading
the database dumps or using Tool Labs.
(2) get the pageview stats for all these pages,
including on aggregate
The raw pageview stat data may also be available on Tool Labs. I see
some data in /shared/viewstats/, but it doesn't seem to be up to date.
--
Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
Software Engineer
Wikimedia Foundation
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It should be noted that the category table cat_pages entries are
sometimes inaccurate (especially for larger categories), and are
closer to an order of mangitude estimate. If you're going to be
looking at page views of all entries in the category, you could just
count how many pages there are directly.
Page view stats are available at