by User:GreenC (en.wikipedia.org)

June 2020

MIT License

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

• GNU Awk 4.1+
• BotWikiAwk (version Jan 2019 +)
• A bot User account with bot permissions on Commons

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. Edit ~/BotWikiAwk/lib/botwiki.awk

   A. Set local URLs in section #1 and #2

   B. Create a new 'case' entry in section #3, adjust the Home bot path created in step 2:

    case "numberof":                                             # Custom bot paths
    	Home = "/data/project/projectname/numberof/"         # path ends in "/"
    	Agent = UserPage " (ask me about " BotName ")"
    	Engine = 3
    	break
   

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

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

1. See the file toolforge.txt for how to run on Toolforge. Adjust to your local system if not on Toolforge.