I would second the recommendation of using the dumps for such a large
graphing project. If it's more than a couple hundred pages the API/database
queries can get bulky

On Sun, Mar 18, 2018 at 5:07 PM Brian Wolff <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> You can run longer queries by getting access to toolforge (
> https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Portal:Toolforge) and running from the
> command line.
>
> However the query in question might  still take an excessively long time
> (if you are doing all of wikipedia). I would expect that query to result in
> about 150mb of data and maybe take days to complete.
>
> You can also break it down into parts by adding WHERE page_title >='a' AND
> page_title < 'b'
>
> Note, also of interest: full dumps of all the links is available at
>
> https://dumps.wikimedia.org/enwiki/20180301/enwiki-20180301-pagelinks.sql.gz
> (you would also need
> https://dumps.wikimedia.org/enwiki/20180301/enwiki-20180301-page.sql.gz to
> convert page ids to page names)
> --
> Brian
> On Sunday, March 18, 2018, Nick Bell <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hi there,
> >
> > I'm a final year Mathematics student at the University of Bristol, and
> I'm
> > studying Wikipedia as a graph for my project.
> >
> > I'd like to get data regarding the number of outgoing links on each page,
> > and the number of pages with links to each page. I have already
> > inquired about this with the Analytics Team mailing list, who gave me a
> few
> > suggestions.
> >
> > One of these was to run the code at this link
> https://quarry.wmflabs.org/
> > query/25400
> > with these instructions:
> >
> > "You will have to fork it and remove the "LIMIT 10" to get it to run on
> > all the English Wikipedia articles. It may take too long or produce
> > too much data, in which case please ask on this list for someone who
> > can run it for you."
> >
> > I ran the code as instructed, but the query was killed as it took longer
> > than 30 minutes to run. I asked if anyone on the mailing list could run
> it
> > for me, but no one replied saying they could. The guy who wrote the code
> > suggested I try this mailing list to see if anyone can help.
> >
> > I'm a beginner in programming and coding etc., so any and all help you
> can
> > give me would be greatly appreciated.
> >
> > Many thanks,
> > Nick Bell
> > University of Bristol
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