I’ve published a Wikipedia Page Traffic Data Set containing a 320 GB sample of the data used to power trendingtopics.org (I’ll talk about Trending Topics more in a upcoming post). The EBS snapshot includes 7 months of hourly page traffic statistics for over 8 Million Wikipedia articles (~ 1 TB uncompressed) along with the associated Wikipedia content, linkgraph, & metadata. The english Wikipedia subset contains ~2.5 Million articles.
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It only takes a couple of minutes to sign up for an Amazon EC2 account and set up access to the data as an EBS volume from the Amazon Management Console.
If you want to work entirely from the command line, you will need to complete the steps in the Getting Started Guide. When you are set up to use EC2, launch a small EC2 Ubuntu instance from your local machine:
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$ ec2-run-instances ami-5394733a -k gsg-keypair -z us-east-1aOnce it is running and you have the instance id, create and attach an EBS Volume using the public snapshot snap-753dfc1c (make sure the volume is created in the same availability zone as the ec2 instance)
$ ec2-create-volume --snapshot snap-753dfc1c -z us-east-1a $ ec2-attach-volume vol-ec06ea85 -i i-df396cb6 -d /dev/sdf …
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I’ve published a Wikipedia Page Traffic Data Set containing a 320 GB sample of the data used to power trendingtopics.org (I’ll talk about Trending Topics more in a upcoming post). The EBS snapshot includes 7 months of hourly page traffic statistics for over 8 Million Wikipedia articles (~ 1 TB uncompressed) along with the associated Wikipedia content, linkgraph, & metadata. The english Wikipedia subset contains ~2.5 Million articles.
It only takes a couple of minutes to sign up for an Amazon EC2 account and set up access to the data as an EBS volume from the Amazon Management Console.
If you want to work entirely from the command line, you will need to complete the steps in the Getting Started Guide. When you are set up to use EC2, launch a small EC2 Ubuntu instance from your local machine:
$ ec2-run-instances ami-5394733a -k gsg-keypair -z us-east-1aOnce it is running and you have the instance id, create and attach an EBS Volume using the public snapshot snap-753dfc1c (make sure the volume is created in the same availability zone as the ec2 instance)
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$ ec2-create-volume --snapshot snap-753dfc1c -z us-east-1a $ ec2-attach-volume vol-ec06ea85 -i i-df396cb6 -d /dev/sdfNext, ssh into the instance and mount the volume
$ ssh root@ec2-12-xx-xx-xx.z-1.compute-1.amazonaws.com root@domU-12-xx-xx-xx-75-81:/mnt# mkdir /mnt/wikidata root@domU-12-xx-xx-xx-75-81:/mnt# mount /dev/sdf /mnt/wikidataSee the README files in each subdirectory for more details on these datasets…
Wikistats
The good stuff is sitting in 5000 files in /mnt/wikidata/wikistats/pagecounts/
/mnt/wikidata/wikistats/pagecounts# ls -l | wc -l 5068 /mnt/wikidata/wikistats/pagecounts# ls -lh |head total 260G -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 49M 2009-02-26 13:34 pagecounts-20081001-000000.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 46M 2009-02-26 13:34 pagecounts-20081001-010000.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 47M 2009-02-26 13:34 pagecounts-20081001-020000.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 44M 2009-02-26 13:34 pagecounts-20081001-030000.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 45M 2009-02-26 13:34 pagecounts-20081001-040000.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 47M 2009-02-26 13:35 pagecounts-20081001-050001.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 45M 2009-02-26 13:35 pagecounts-20081001-060000.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 50M 2009-02-26 13:35 pagecounts-20081001-070000.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 51M 2009-02-26 13:35 pagecounts-20081001-080000.gzThis directory contains hourly Wikipedia article traffic logs covering the 7 month period from October 01 2008 to April 30 2009, this data is regularly logged from the wikipedia squid proxy by Domas Mituzas.
Each log file is named with the date and time of collection: pagecounts-20090430-230000.gz
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Each line has 4 fields:
projectcode, pagename, pageviews, bytes en Barack_Obama 997 123091092 en Barack_Obama%27s_first_100_days 8 850127 en Barack_Obama,_Jr 1 144103 en Barack_Obama,_Sr. 37 938821 en Barack_Obama_%22HOPE%22_poster 4 81005 en Barack_Obama_%22Hope%22_poster 5 102081Wikilinks (1.1G)
Contains a wikipedia linkgraph dataset provided by Henry Haselgrove.
These files contain all links between proper english language Wikipedia pages, that is pages in “namespace 0″. This includes disambiguation pages and redirect pages.
In links-simple-sorted.txt, there is one line for each page that has links from it. The format of the lines is ready for processing by Hadoop:
from1: to11 to12 to13 ... from2: to21 to22 to23 ... ...where from1 is an integer labelling a page that has links from it, and to11 to12 to13 … are integers labelling all the pages that the page links to. To find the page title that corresponds to integer n, just look up the n-th line in the file titles-sorted.txt.
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Wikidump (29G)
Contains the raw Wikipedia dumps from March along with some processed versions of the data. One of the useful files I created provides a direct lookup table for wikipedia article redirects in page_lookup_redirects.txt, which can be useful for name standardization and search:
Here is a sample query run when the file is loaded into MySQL:
mysql> select redirect_title, true_title from page_lookups where page_id = 534366; +------------------------------------------------+--------------+ | redirect_title | true_title | +------------------------------------------------+--------------+ | Barack_Obama | Barack Obama | | Barak_Obama | Barack Obama | | 44th_President_of_the_United_States | Barack Obama | | Barach_Obama | Barack Obama | | Senator_Barack_Obama | Barack Obama | ..... ..... | Rocco_Bama | Barack Obama | | Barack_Obama's | Barack Obama | | B._Obama | Barack Obama | +------------------------------------------------+--------------+ 110 rows in set (11.15 sec) 