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Examining the number of pages created in the Draft namespace between 2017-09-15 and 2018-02-15 that currently (2018-03-14) exists
as pages in the article (Main) namespace.

1: Get a dataset of creations in the Draft namespace between those dates from the `log` database:
SELECT page_id
FROM mediawiki_page_create_2
WHERE `database`='enwiki'
AND rev_timestamp >= '2017-09-15 00:00:00'
AND rev_timestamp < '2018-02-15 00:00:00'
AND page_namespace = 118

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## Excerpt from the class, showing the method that calls the Wikidata API,
## approach is the same for other MediaWiki APIs with maxlag parameter available

    def make_api_request(self, items, http_session):
        '''
        Make an HTTP request to the Wikidata API for info on the given list
        of items using the given HTTP session.

        :param items: the QIDs of the items we'll be getting data about
        :type items: list