Wikipedia is a free encyclopedia that everyone can edit.

We are collecting the number of Wikipedia articles (namespace=0) in the 25 most popular wikipedias and Wikimedia Commons (namespace=6):

en nl de sv fr it ru es pl war ceb ja vi pt zh uk ca no fi fa id cs ko hu ar commons

We would for example use en.wikipedia.org as HOST in the API URL below. We are not counting the number of hits in the user or file namespaces.

ALM Name wikipedia
ALM Configuration default
ALM Core Attributes url
ALM Other Attributes language
namespace
Protocol REST
Format JSON
Rate-limiting unknown
Authentication no
Restriction by IP Address no
API URL http://HOST/w/api.php?action=query&list=search&format=json&srsearch=\"DOI\"+OR+\"URL\"&srnamespace=NAMESPACE&srwhat=text&srinfo=totalhits&srprop=timestamp&srlimit=50&sroffset=%{sroffset}&continue=

Example Response

{
  "batchcomplete": "",
  "query": {
    "searchinfo": {
      "totalhits": 8
    },
    "search": [
      {
        "ns": 6,
        "title": "File:Cercopithecus lomamiensis Female.jpg",
        "timestamp": "2013-08-29T21:27:22Z"
      },
      {
        "ns": 6,
        "title": "File:Cercopithecus lomamiensis Juv.jpg",
        "timestamp": "2013-08-29T21:28:03Z"
      },
      {
        "ns": 6,
        "title": "File:Cercopithecus lomamiensis (Lesula).png",
        "timestamp": "2013-08-29T21:25:48Z"
      },
      {
        "ns": 6,
        "title": "File:Cercopithecus lomamiensis MaleP.jpg",
        "timestamp": "2013-08-29T21:29:00Z"
      },
      {
        "ns": 6,
        "title": "File:Cercopithecus lomamiensis Male.jpg",
        "timestamp": "2013-08-29T21:28:22Z"
      },
      {
        "ns": 6,
        "title": "File:Journal.pone.0044271.g001.png",
        "timestamp": "2013-08-29T21:14:47Z"
      },
      {
        "ns": 6,
        "title": "File:Cercopithecus hamlyni booms - journal.pone.0044271.s015.ogg",
        "timestamp": "2015-02-24T14:34:48Z"
      },
      {
        "ns": 6,
        "title": "File:Cercopithecus lomamiensis booms - journal.pone.0044271.s016.ogg",
        "timestamp": "2015-02-24T14:34:48Z"
      }
    ]
  }
}

Source Code

The source code is available here.

Further Documentation