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This issue was converted from https://jira.toolserver.org/browse/DBQ-52. Summary: Chronological categorization of backlinks to individual article Issue type: Task - A task that needs to be done. Priority: Major Status: Done Assignee: (none) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Yuzhong <zy0329111111@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 13:03:41 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I am doing a study about the backlinks to individual article in English Wikipedia. But it seems that through the "what links here" button we can only check the latest information of the backlinks to one article. Can I get more historical information about the backlinks to the article? For instance, if an article named "A" started from 2002 till now, can we get the information about how many backlinks to "A" in year 2002 and what is the respective backlink numbers in 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006...? It seems that we can only get the result by querying the "pagelinks" dumps. But now I can only download the latest one. Could anyone do me a favor to query the outdated data dump to get the yearly backlinks information for the articles list ed below? Thanks a lot! Most of the articles are started from late 2001: 1837 Analysis of algorithms Ballroom dance Bluetooth Boron_nitride Brackish_water Casino Computing conquest_of Cue_sport European anchovy Extreme poverty File_archiver Glossary of American football IBM AIX (operating system) International Atomic Time International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry List of animated television series List of anthropologists Minute of arc Motor neurone disease Neolithic Patriotism The Amazing Spider-Man Unit of alcohol Pattern welding Communications in Angola Dasyproctidae Abstract algebra Amoeboid Avionics Aztlan Underground Bell_Labs Binary operation Blue_law Board_game Bomber Cereal Characters in Atlas Shrugged Cobble Hill Tunnel Coco Chanel Cuisine of the United States Delian League Dual_wield Ecology of Africa Ericsson Friction Heredity Industry in Alberta Joule Miss Marple Navy Silicon Valley Snake oil Tank destroyer The_Bush_(Alaska) Wheel Zoology Axiom of choice Black_Sea Blindness BMW Civil engineering Computer keyboard Czech Republic Damascus steel Economy_of_Belize Electromagnetic radiation Engineering Euclidean space Group action Hercule Poirot Ibn Intelligence quotient Latitude Lynx_(console) Mouthwash Nuclear fission Number Operating system Pinyin Primate Radium Sid_Meier's_Alpha_Centauri States and territories of Australia The_Birth_of_a_Nation The_Bronx Utilitarianism Vim (text editor) X-ray Kolmogorov complexity Maxwell's equations Quantum mechanics Britney_Spears Bill Clinton Computer Jewellery Standard conditions for temperature and pressure Autism Oxygen
------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Bryan Tong Minh <bryan@tools.wikimedia.de> Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 13:28:12 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Not possible. MediaWiki does not store historical data about pagelinks.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Yuzhong <zy0329111111@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 13:52:48 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- There are "pagelinks" dumps retrieved from different time may keep the backlink information. See http://download.wikimedia.org/enwiki/ But only the "pagelink" dumps from March 2008 to October 2008 are available. Anywhere I can find the early dumps?
------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Yuzhong <zy0329111111@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 14:08:17 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Alternatively, I have a rough idea. I use the "what links here" function of article "A" to get the list of articles linked to article "A". And then search the key word "A" in historical versions of thoes articles linked to "A" to see when were they linked to article "A". I am now doing it manaually. It is very slow and tedious. Anyidea to make it automatic or semi-automatic? Thanks a lot for your suggestion！
------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Misza <misza1313@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 19:19:43 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > I use the "what links here" function of article "A" to get the list of articles linked to article "A". And then search the key word "A" in historical versions of thoes articles linked to "A" to see when were they linked to article "A". Unfortunately, to my knowledge, the toolserver databases do not store the text of historical revisions.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Betacommand <phoenixoverride@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 02:17:38 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is something that the database on the toolserver cannot do
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