Wikipedia Page Traffic Statistics Dataset

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:

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    $ ec2-run-instances ami-5394733a -k gsg-keypair -z us-east-1a

Once 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

Next, 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/wikidata

See 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.gz

This 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

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 102081

Wikilinks (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.

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)