Benjamin Mako Hill 0b6e0fbc70 add regex match counting (-RPc / -CPc)
Port the regex counting feature from the mako_changes-20230429 branch
(2ff4d60): the -RPc/--revision-pattern-count and
-CPc/--comment-pattern-count flags cause revision and comment patterns
to output the number of matches instead of the matched text, with 0
(never null) for revisions with no matches or deleted content. The
flags apply to all revision or comment patterns respectively, and count
columns are typed int64 in the output schema.

Counting the matches of common or large patterns previously required
returning the full matched text, which made for very large outputs.

Also take the code review suggestion from that branch (933ca75): use
assignment expressions so matching no longer makes redundant calls to
search() before finditer()/findall() or calls match.group() twice.

Includes unit tests for the count semantics and schema types, and an
end-to-end test that verifies counts against the number of matches
recomputed from each revision's text and comment.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-06 15:47:38 -07:00
2025-06-17 11:37:20 -05:00
2025-07-07 20:14:13 -07:00

When you install this from git, you will need to first clone the repository:

git clone git://projects.mako.cc/mediawiki_dump_tools

From within the repository working directory, initiatlize and set up the submodule like:

git submodule init
git submodule update

Wikimedia dumps are usually in a compressed format such as 7z (most common), gz, or bz2. Wikiq uses your computer's compression software to read these files. Therefore wikiq depends on [7za]{.title-ref}, [gzcat]{.title-ref}, and [zcat]{.title-ref}.

Dependencies

These non-Python dependencies must be installed on your system for wikiq and its associated tests to work.

  • 7zip
  • ffmpeg

A new diff engine based on [_wikidiff2]{.title-ref} can be used for word-persistence. Wikiq can also output the diffs between each page revision. This requires installing Wikidiff 2 on your system. On Debian or Ubuntu Linux this can be done via.

apt-get install php-wikidiff2

You may have to also run. sudo phpenmod wikidiff2.

Tests ----To run tests:

python -m unittest test.Wikiq_Unit_Test

TODO:

  1. [] Output metadata about the run. What parameters were used? What versions of deltas?
  2. [] Url encoding by default
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command line tool to convert MediaWiki XML database dumps into tabular datasets for research
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