User:Kaldari/Task 1

For this task, you'll probably want to install MediaWiki on your local machine.

Write a stand-alone PHP program that takes the following as query string parameters: Using these 3 parameters, your program should answer the question "In the category X, what were the X most-edited articles in the past X days, and how many times were each of them edited during that period." Output the results as JSON. Don't worry about subcategories.
 * The name of a MediaWiki category (for example '2013_films')
 * The number of articles to list
 * The number of days to evaluate (up to 10)

Hints: The recentchanges table stores all edits made in the past 13 weeks. The categorylinks table stores category membership. The page table stores the titles of articles.

Code checked into github is ideal.