Hi Amir,
Oliver is correct, I have a dataset of {internal referer,page,count} tuples
for last December. We have not had time to talk about the privacy
implications of making this data public. But once we have that conversation
I will put it up somewhere and let you know.
Ellery
On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 6:40 AM, Leila Zia <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Amir,
>
> We're working on a link improvement project [1] that will answer your
> first two questions. The first round of tests will be on ptwiki, then
> enwiki, and depending on the results we may add more languages. The
> algorithm used is robust to the choice of language, its accuracy, however,
> depends on the traffic the language receives.
>
> We will continue to update the project page as more results become
> available.
>
> Best,
> Leila
>
> [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Improving_link_coverage
>
> On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 5:44 AM, Amir E. Aharoni <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Are there metrics about which links in each article are the most clicked?
>>
>> I can think there's a lot to be learned from it:
>> * Data-driven suggestions for manual of style about linking (too much and
>> too few links are a perennial topic of argument)
>> * How do people traverse between topics.
>> * Which terms in the article may need a short explanation in parentheses
>> rather than just a link.
>> * How far down into the article do people bother to read.
>>
>> Anyway, I can think that accessibility to such data can optimize both
>> readership and editing.
>>
>> And maybe this can be just taken right from the logs, without any
>> additional EventLogging.
>>
>> --
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>> I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore
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