Jim Hutchinson wrote: > (I tried to post this question before but was not properly registered for > the mailing list. If this is a repeat I apologize.) > > I am in need of some guidance on how to get some data out of the query > service. I signed up for an account, but I'm not sure if I'm supposed to > create an "issue" or if there is some other process I should follow. I'm > also not sure if the query service is right way to go about this. > > In short, as part of a graduate research project, I need to select about 100 > articles in Wikipedia, find the most frequent editors (there is a > "contributors" tool which ranks them) such as those with more than 10 edits > to the article and then for each of these editors generate a list of all > pages they have edited with a frequency count for each. > > Does this sound like the query service is the right way to go about > collecting this data and if so can someone point me to the proper procedure > for making such a request? > > Thanks.
If you get a toolserver account, you don't need the query service, as you could perform them yourself. Otherwise, doing such queries using toolserver tables is a way to do it. Another way would be for you to download the stub-articles.xml.gz file from http://dumps.wikimedia.org/ and process it to fetch that data. 100 articles is easy to do. _______________________________________________ Toolserver-l mailing list ([email protected]) https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/toolserver-l Posting guidelines for this list: https://wiki.toolserver.org/view/Mailing_list_etiquette
