Since but 26122 has been fixed, any reason not to use the deletion log
instead?

On Thu, Aug 15, 2019 at 10:27 AM Aaron Halfaker <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Here's a related bit of work:
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Wikipedia_article_creation
>
> In this research project, I used a mix of both the deletion log and the
> archive table to get a sense for when pages were being deleted.
>
> Ultimately, I found that the easiest deletion event to operationalize was
> to look at the most recent ar_timestamp for a page in the archive table.
>  I could only go back to 2008 with this metric because the archive table
> didn't exist before then.
>
> The archive table is available in quarry.  See
> https://quarry.wmflabs.org/query/38414 for an example query that gets the
> timestamp of an article's last revision.
>
> The logging table is also in quarry.  See
> https://quarry.wmflabs.org/query/38415 for an example query that gets
> deletion events.
>
> On Tue, Aug 13, 2019 at 2:51 PM Haifeng Zhang <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> > Dear all,
> >
> > Is there an easy way to get the number of articles deleted over time
> > (e.g., month) in Wikipedia?
> >
> > Can I use Quarry? What tables should I use?
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Haifeng Zhang
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