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 >>> >>> -- >>> Burton DeWilde >>> >>> Data Scientist >>> Harmony Institute >>> harmony-institute.org >>> blog | twitter | facebook >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Analytics mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Thank you. >>> >>> Alex Druk >>> [email protected] >>> (775) 237-8550 Google voice >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Analytics mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Analytics mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics > > > > > -- > Thank you. > > Alex Druk > [email protected] > (775) 237-8550 Google voice > _______________________________________________ > Analytics mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics
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