On Mar 25, 2014, at 7:01 AM, Alex Druk <[email protected]> wrote:

> @Dario: thanks.  yes, we renew the site once in a month, usually around 10th 
> of each month because dependence on dumps.
> And yes, we plan to introduce JSON

awesome

also, I noticed some inconsistency in the heading/titles that you may want to 
fix: “Wikipedia Articles Trends”, “Wikipedia trends”, “Wikipedia pageview 
statistics”, “Wiki Trends”.

Dario

> On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 2:32 PM, Dario Taraborelli 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> apologies, s/Burton/Alex :)
> 
> one more question: is there any plan to add a JSON interface on top of the 
> CSV download? Many people have relied on stats.grok.se JSON output for years 
> and it would be fantastic to have wikipediatrends return data in the same 
> format.
> 
> Dario
> 
> 
> 
> On Mar 25, 2014, at 6:27 AM, Dario Taraborelli <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> Hi Burton,
>> 
>> nicely done (and yay for using dygraphs) – with what frequenty do you expect 
>> wikipediatrends to ingest new data from the raw pageview dumps? I assume 
>> it’s once a month?
>> 
>> Dario
>> 
>> On Mar 25, 2014, at 2:09 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 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, where we study the social impact of media (primarily 
>>> television and film). I'm currently building an interactive web app 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, and issue-related pages, e.g. 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
>>> 
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