I honestly think that turning this process into a bot running on Toolforge would be a good idea. It could update the counts monthly and we would mostly not need to think about it.

@mseckington: This task is overdue as it remained unassigned for the last quarter.

The 29 month old table on https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gadgets&oldid=22447270#Gadgets_popular_on_wikis lists 16 gadgets.

If I ran the Python script correctly in PAWS after adjusting four date stamps (no idea; the UI isn't that intuitive), it seems to print 8 results. Is that correct?

== edittop ==

edittop [ ResourceLoader ] |edittop.js|edittop.css
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== hotcat ==

Hotcat[ResourceLoader|rights=edit,purge]|HotCat.js <!-- purge is a work-around to default-enable only for logged-in users. -->
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== navigationpopups ==

Navigation_popups[ResourceLoader|type=general|dependencies=mediawiki.user,mediawiki.util]|popups.js|navpop.css
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== purgetab ==

purgeTab[ResourceLoader|dependencies=mediawiki.api,mediawiki.language,mediawiki.util|rights=purge]|purgeTab.js
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== referencetooltips ==

ReferenceTooltips[ResourceLoader|dependencies=mediawiki.util,ext.gadget.site-lib|default|type=general]|ReferenceTooltips.js|ReferenceTooltips.css
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== reftoolbar ==

refToolbar[ResourceLoader|dependencies=mediawiki.util|default]|refToolbar.js
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== utcliveclock ==

UTCLiveClock [ ResourceLoader ] |UTCLiveClock.js
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== wiked ==

wikEd [ ResourceLoader ] |wikEd.js
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• https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/PAWS/Getting_started_with_PAWS#Fork was a bit unclear as "Upload" seems to first require downloading (cannot pass a remote URL)?
• https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/PAWS links to https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:PAWS for "Ask questions; leave feedback" and that looks dead. Should it redirect to https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Cloud_Services_communication

In T292270#8279586, @Aklapper wrote:

The 29 month old table on https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gadgets&oldid=22447270#Gadgets_popular_on_wikis lists 16 gadgets.

If I ran the Python script correctly in PAWS after adjusting four date stamps (no idea; the UI isn't that intuitive), it seems to print 8 results. Is that correct?

Ahha, I also just tried and I get the same results. I am not sure why the script is no longer printing info for all gadgets. This needs more investigation.

In T292270#8289181, @srishakatux wrote:

I am not sure why the script is no longer printing info for all gadgets.

@srishakatux: The line blobs = r['query']['pages'].values() populates items in the format of dict_values([{'pageid': 123456, 'ns': 8, 'title': 'MediaWiki:Gadgets-definition'}]). But a few lines later code iterates on revisions often not existing for the specified time frame:

for blob in blobs:
    if 'revisions' not in blob:
        break

so code never reaches gadget_defs[url] = blob['revisions'][0]['*'] where gadget_defs seems to get populated (maybe that should call /w/api.php?action=parse&format=json&page=MediaWiki%3AGadgets-definition instead after checking if the page actually is not empty and does not give an error?).
Not sure as I don't know Python but I think code to get gadget definitions and code to get users with edits should get completely separated...

Also, the code would ideally check if a website is closed when parsing the sitematrix json and then not add it to the site_urls array

Errm I don't understand why the code queries revisions at all. Or how "popularity" is related to edits of a gadget list (overview) page.
The code is pretty cool and does stuff but it does not seem to answer the actual question if I get it right (I don't speak Python)?

So I (re)wrote that Python code (with sugar-on-top [[MediaWiki:Gadgets-definition]] syntax checking), stripping some stuff, adding other stuff.
I do not claim that I understood all existing code as I did not speak any Python until three days ago.

Here are the results of it: