Here's the assignment:
Download this raw statistics dump from Wikipedia (360mb unzipped):
http://dumps.wikimedia.org/other/pagecounts-raw/2014/2014-10/pagecounts-20141029-230000.gz
Write a simple script in your favourite programming language that:
- Gets all views from the English Wikipedia (these are prefixed by "en ")
- Limit those articles to the ones with at least 500 views
- Sort by number of views, highest ones first and print the first ten articles.