Re: [Wiki-research-l] No. of articles deleted over time

2019-08-16 Thread Morten Wang
A couple of learnings about article deletions from the ACTRIAL analysis: 1. The logging table does not appear to contain correct page IDs of deleted pages until some time in 2014[1]. If you're looking at historical data and want to combine earlier deletions with other information,

Re: [Wiki-research-l] No. of articles deleted over time

2019-08-16 Thread Samuel Klein
Since but 26122 has been fixed, any reason not to use the deletion log instead? On Thu, Aug 15, 2019 at 10:27 AM Aaron Halfaker wrote: > Here's a related bit of work: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Wikipedia_article_creation > > In this research project, I used a mix of both the

Re: [Wiki-research-l] No. of articles deleted over time

2019-08-15 Thread Aaron Halfaker
Here's a related bit of work: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Wikipedia_article_creation In this research project, I used a mix of both the deletion log and the archive table to get a sense for when pages were being deleted. Ultimately, I found that the easiest deletion event to

[Wiki-research-l] No. of articles deleted over time

2019-08-13 Thread Haifeng Zhang
Dear all, Is there an easy way to get the number of articles deleted over time (e.g., month) in Wikipedia? Can I use Quarry? What tables should I use? Thanks, Haifeng Zhang ___ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org