Thanks a bunch to everyone who chimed in here. These hints brought us forward quite a bit!
Bob On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 12:50 AM, Giuseppe Profiti <profgiuse...@gmail.com> wrote: > [forwarding my answer from analytics ml, I forgot to subscribe to this list > too] > > Hi Robert, > one solution may be to use a query on Wikidata to retrieve the name > for the stubs category in all the different languages. Then you could > use a tool like PetScan to retrive all the pages in such categories, > or write your own tool by using either a query on the database or > Mediawiki API. > You can find a sample solution here: > http://paws-public.wmflabs.org/paws-public/3270/Stub%20categories.ipynb > > I wrote that thing while on a train, so it may be messy and/or sub-optimal. > I would like to thank Alex Monk and Yuvi Panda for their help with SQL > on paws today. > > Best, > Giuseppe > > 2016-09-20 11:26 GMT+02:00 Robert West <w...@cs.stanford.edu>: >> Hi everyone, >> >> Does anyone know if there's a straightforward (ideally language-independent) >> way of identifying stub articles in Wikipedia? >> >> Whatever works is ok, whether it's publicly available data or data >> accessible only on the WMF cluster. >> >> I've found lists for various languages (e.g., Italian or English), but the >> lists are in different formats, so separate code is required for each >> language, which doesn't scale. >> >> I guess in the worst case, I'll have to grep for the respective stub >> templates in the respective wikitext dumps, but even this requires to know >> for each language what the respective template is. So if anyone could point >> me to a list of stub templates in different languages, that would also be >> appreciated. >> >> Thanks! >> Bob >> >> -- >> Up for a little language game? -- http://www.unfun.me >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Analytics mailing list >> analyt...@lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics >> > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l -- Up for a little language game? -- http://www.unfun.me _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
