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This might be of use to someone: extlinks: "utility to download and parse wikipedia external links". As of today, "it found a total of 121,942,660 external links from en de fr it pl ja es ru pt nl wikipedias".
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Re: extlinks
What proportion are to other WMF sites or to Wikia?Hex wrote:This might be of use to someone: extlinks: "utility to download and parse wikipedia external links". As of today, "it found a total of 121,942,660 external links from en de fr it pl ja es ru pt nl wikipedias".
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Re: extlinks
Dunno. That's why the tool exists, so you can find out if you want.
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Re: extlinks
The tool is not like a hammer or a saw, which I know how to use. It is more like a multi-slice computed tomography tool, which I don't know how to use.Hex wrote:Dunno. That's why the tool exists, so you can find out if you want.
Could someone extract the external links from just the English Wikipedia, then post the list somewhere, for use by hammer and saw people?
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I ran it and killed it after the output had reached 8GB with no indication of how long it had to go. Sharing the results is unfortunately probably not very practical.thekohser wrote: Could someone extract the external links from just the English Wikipedia, then post the list somewhere, for use by hammer and saw people?
My question, to this esteemed Wiki community, is this: Do you think that a Wiki could successfully generate a useful encyclopedia? -- JimboWales
Yes, but in the end it wouldn't be an encyclopedia. It would be a wiki. -- WardCunningham (Jan 2001)
Yes, but in the end it wouldn't be an encyclopedia. It would be a wiki. -- WardCunningham (Jan 2001)
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Re: extlinks
From our book wiki:Outsider wrote:What proportion are to other WMF sites or to Wikia?
Links from English Wikipedia to Wikia, as of February 2012: 30,493. The count as of 22 July 2012 was 32,336 links. As of May 2013, it had declined to 29,107 links, possibly because of an unnoticed attempt to cut back on some Wikia links.
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Re: extlinks
That might not be accurate, depending on what tools you're using. The internal wiki tools probably don't include Memory Alpha links as Wikia links, for example, but they are Wikia links nonetheless.EricBarbour wrote:From our book wiki:Outsider wrote:What proportion are to other WMF sites or to Wikia?Links from English Wikipedia to Wikia, as of February 2012: 30,493. The count as of 22 July 2012 was 32,336 links. As of May 2013, it had declined to 29,107 links, possibly because of an unnoticed attempt to cut back on some Wikia links.
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Re: extlinks
It included hundreds of Memory Alpha links, because I did not use "internal tools". I manually counted all the links to any and all Wikia URLs.SB_Johnny wrote:That might not be accurate, depending on what tools you're using. The internal wiki tools probably don't include Memory Alpha links as Wikia links, for example, but they are Wikia links nonetheless.