[wiki-standards] how to get raw material for stats?

[Whiteg Weng]

Hi Denis,

The two Wikipedia pages provide information of how to retrieve data  
from Wikipedia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php

Cheers.
Whiteg


On Oct 20, 2008, at 10:50 PM, spir wrote:

> Hello everybody,
>
> I'm new here, this is my first post on the list. I'm no professional  
> researcher, programmer, or web designer, only a hobbyist. And an  
> lover of all kinds of languages.
>
> I'd like to do some statistics about the actual use of wiki language  
> features : which ones are the most used, which ones could be left  
> aside, how predominant are the most used, etc. I'm also really  
> interested in seeing how cultural/linguistic pregnancy (?) may  
> influence that.
> To do this, I plan to parse hundreds of wiki pages from wikipedia or  
> any other wiki that exists in multilinguistic versions. The issue  
> for me is : how to get the raw material? I have no clue. Would you  
> help me for that. This dataset may then be available for further  
> use. I would prefere random pages.
> I can cope with parsing (my code will not comply with any industry  
> standard, but it will be clear and do the job ;-)). The data may be  
> either, the full page's html, the wiki doc's html, or the wiki  
> source text. It may also be db extracts if I can have the format to  
> decode it -- but I highly prefere humanly readable data.
>
> Thank you for your attention,
> Denis
>
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