Numberof

by User:GreenC (en.wikipedia.org)

June 2020

MIT License

Files

Numberof is a Wikipedia bot that creates and maintains these files:

• Commons:Data:Wikipedia_statistics/data.tab
• Commons:Data:Wikipedia_statistics/rank/*.tab
• Commons:Data:Wikipedia_statistics/meta.tab

..which are pages used by {{Wikipedia rank by size}}, {{NUMBEROF}} and Module:NUMBEROF across many wiki languages and projects.

In addition, the bot creates .tab pages for Module:NumberOf hosted on Ruwiki and a few others. NumberOf is a peer of NUMBEROF, with its own features and requirements. The files are:

• Commons:Data:Wikipedia_statistics/daily.tab
• Commons:Data:Wikipedia_statistics/hourly.tab

Finally, the bot creates forks of the ranking files which are sorted with ties showing equal rank (eg. two wikis can both be ranked #42 if they are tied for that spot). Equal ranking is not supported by Module:NUMBEROF but the data is made available for use such as other templates:

• Commons:Data:Wikipedia_statistics/rank/*-ties.tab

Dependencies

• GNU Awk 4.1+
• BotWikiAwk (version December 2023 or later)
• A bot User account with bot permissions on Commons

Installation

1. Install BotWikiAwk following setup instructions.

2. Add OAuth credentials to wikiget (installed with BotWikiAwk), which is the utility that uploads pages to Commons. See EDITSETUP.

3. Clone Numberof. For example: git clone https://github.com/greencardamom/Numberof

4. Set ~/Numberof/numberof.awk to mode 750, and change the first shebang line to the location of awk.

5. In numberof.awk in the "BEGIN {" section is a place for an email address for error reports.

Running

1. See the file toolforge.txt for how to run on Toolforge.
2. If not on Toolforge simply run it from cron every x hours like every 4 hours