Description

Currently, Quantifying uses Google Custom Search and GitHub APIs. I would like to add Wikipedia as a new source for fetching data. So we would have wikipedia_fetch.py under scripts directory.

Implementation

• Integrate the Wikipedia API as a source for it to retrieve the count of Wikipedia articles containing references to specific Creative Commons licenses or keywords.
• Implement fetching functions similar to existing github_fetch.py so the data flow remains consistent.
• Update documentation to reflect Wikipedia as a supported data source.

API documentation: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Siteinfo#Rightsinfo

Available statistics:

• Number of articles
• Number of pages
• Number of edits
• Number of users
• Number of images

I would update the implementation as I continue working on it.