On 7/9/13, Brad Jorsch (Anomie) <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 10:46 AM, Daniel Mietchen > <[email protected]> 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
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 http://dumps.wikimedia.org/other/pagecounts-raw/ --bawolff _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
