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 <[email protected]> wrote: > That is fantastic news... I'm incredibly grateful for the help and advice. > > On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 1:27 PM, John <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> >> 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 <[email protected]>: >>> >>>> 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 <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>>> What numbers/data do you want? I can whip up a replacement for it. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Monday, September 8, 2014, Navino Evans <[email protected]> >>>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Hi All, >>>>>> >>>>>> Hi all, does anyone know if there is a tool currently available for >>>>>> counting backlinks to Wikipedia articles via an API? 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