Quick question: Does this have en.wp data only, or can I query (as in CSV)
other wikipedias/projects? And, can I limit the data range (not really
necessary, but less data to transmit)?


On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 9:09 AM, Alex Druk <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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/> | 
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>
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