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How to know if an article from Wikipedia XML Dump is a List?

There are directives for telling whether an article is a Disambiguation page. I would like to know if there is any directive/Wikimedia Template used to flag an article as a list?

So far the only way I've found to check this is via Wikidata's P360 Property, but Ideally I would like to get this information from the Wikipedia XML dump.

Solution

  • There isn't such information in the article, but you can check the title if it start with "List of...".

    I'm not sure that all items which have Property:P360 are list articles (for example some disambiguation items like Q3086), but you can access them by MediaWiki API:

    https://www.wikidata.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=backlinks&bltitle=Property:P360&blnamespace=0&bllimit=500

    All list articles are marked in Wikidata by instance of Wikimedia list article (Q13406463). You can get all them by using WikidataQuery API:

    http://wdq.wmflabs.org/api?q=claim[31:13406463]

    Currently they are 216,685 (104,843 in enwiki)

    You can also filter all items with P360 which are not disambiguation items:

    http://wdq.wmflabs.org/api?q=claim[360] AND noclaim[31:4167410]