Hi Burton, We just opened a new site www.wikipediatrends.com that show Wikipedia page view data. Our site is very similar to existing http://tools.wmflabs.org/wikiviewstats/ and http://stats.grok.se/, but use slightly different approach to calculating and presenting data as well as allow comparison of different articles.
I hope it will serve your purpose. I am ready to discuss integration out of the list. Alex Druk On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 11:40 PM, Burton DeWilde < [email protected]> wrote: > Dear Toby, > > I recently saw your comment on a blog > post<http://magnusmanske.de/wordpress/?p=173>by Magnus Manske regarding the > lack of Wikipedia page view data besides the > oft-overloaded http://stats.grok.se/. I was wondering if there's been any > progress at WMF on building a more stable, central, and complete source for > this data? > > I ask because I'm a data scientist at a small research non-profit called > Harmony > Institute <http://harmony-institute.org/>, where we study the social > impact of media (primarily television and film). I'm currently building an > interactive web app <http://harmony-institute.org/work/impactspace/> that > visualizes social impact on a variety of issues by many documentary films. > One indicator of interest is "information-seeking behavior," i.e. are > audiences seeking out information about a film or issue. Besides Google > search trends, an excellent proxy for this is Wikipedia page views for both > film pages, e.g. Escape > Fire<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escape_Fire:_The_Fight_to_Rescue_American_Healthcare>, > and issue-related pages, e.g. Health care > reform<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_care_reform> > . > > I'm currently trying to use stats.grok.se to grab raw data in JSON form; > unfortunately, the site almost always responds with "Server overloaded, > please throttle your requests," and no amount of throttling seems to > suffice. I'm aware that there are many TBs of raw data for the downloading, > but I don't have the resources to handle that much data, nor do I need more > than the tiniest fraction of it. > > I would *love* to show Wikipedia page view statistics for film pages in > our app. If you have any updates on progress or suggestions on how I might > do this, I would be very appreciative. > > Thanks very much for your and all of WMF's hard work — I'm a proud donor > to the cause. :) > > Best, > Burton DeWilde > > -- > Burton DeWilde > > Data Scientist > Harmony Institute > harmony-institute.org > blog <http://harmony-institute.org/therippleeffect/> | > twitter<https://twitter.com/hinstitute>| > facebook <https://www.facebook.com/harmonyinstitute> > > > _______________________________________________ > Analytics mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics > > -- Thank you. Alex Druk [email protected] (775) 237-8550 Google voice
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