content_archive.num_present act like a cache for the number of copies
where the content is present. This allow to make a much faster request
when retrieving the contents that have fewer copies than expected.
This diff works with the commit 9fdbadd0c48c4e76b0be2f9a32a09ef41a38d3d4,
and they follow a previous discussion in D86 about this optimization.
More generally, I suggest to use a more consist terminology for pagination: the SQL LIMIT/OFFSET paradigm seems to be a good example to follow here. How about: limit=1000, offset=None (i.e., also dropping the trailing "_content" from the offset argument)?