Theodor Fontane on Wikipedia

Preparation

Install the Python library pageviewapi, that uses the PageView API from Wikimedia Foundation.

pip install git+https://github.com/Commonists/pageview-api.git

Download and extract Pywikibot, a Python library for interacting with Wikipedia:

wget https://tools.wmflabs.org/pywikibot/core_stable.tar.gz
tar xzf core_stable.tar.gz

“Theodor Fontane” articles in different Wikipedia language editions

Extract data from Wikipedia using wiki.py:

python3 core_stable/pwb.py wiki.py --languages "Theodor Fontane" > interwiki.tsv

Plot some of the columns using interwiki.gpi:

gnuplot interwiki.gpi

text length (wiki markup)

number of contributors

number of revisions

number of backlinks

date of the first version of a page

Articles of Fontane’s works (in the German Wikipedia)

Starting point is the Wikipedia category https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kategorie:Werk_von_Theodor_Fontane.

Extract data from Wikipedia using wiki.py:

python3 core_stable/pwb.py wiki.py --category "Kategorie:Werk_von_Theodor_Fontane" > works.tsv

Plot some of the columns using works.gpi:

gnuplot works.gpi

text length (wiki markup)

number of contributors

number of revisions

number of backlinks

number of language editions

date of the first version of a page

Contemporaries of Fontane

Download the result of the SPARQL query https://w.wiki/48T as TSV file contemporaries_wikidata.tsv and then extract data from Wikipedia using wiki.py:

python3 core_stable/pwb.py wiki.py --file contemporaries_wikidata.tsv > contemporaries.tsv

Plot some of the columns using contemporaries.gpi:

gnuplot contemporaries.gpi

text length (wiki markup)

number of contributors

number of revisions

number of backlinks

number of language editions

date of the first version of a page