I am asking for a real-life friend who is doing some research. It's not for
any particular project of mine, but I can easily imagine that it can be
useful for a lot of editors and product managers as I wrote in the opening
post.

(And I cannot think of any privacy problems if the data is not tied to any
particular people, but maybe I'm naive.)


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2015-01-12 22:00 GMT+02:00 Toby Negrin <[email protected]>:

> Hi Amir --
>
> Would you like to see these datasets released publicly or was there a
> specific project you were interested in using them for?
>
> thanks,
>
> -Toby
>
> 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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>> Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי
>> http://aharoni.wordpress.com
>> ‪“We're living in pieces,
>> I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore‬
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