Hi Alex, You probably just want to read Taha's publication on the exact topic: http://dataconomy.com/using-wikipedia-activity-data-forecast-movie-success/
Cheers, Tom On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 4:27 PM, Alex Harrison <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Wikipedia analysts, > > > > I work in product development for the Insights team at Way To Blue. We > provide reports to major film studios to provide them with information about > how their films are doing on social platforms over the course of their > marketing campaign, up to a film’s release in cinemas. > > > > We typically focus on social media volumes (and traditionally split by > Twitter, Forums, Blogs and News), however I just stumbled across the free > Wikipedia article traffic statistics site (http://stats.grok.se/ ) and am > thinking that daily Wikipedia traffic could be an interesting additional > metric for us to report. I have a few questions about daily Wikipedia > traffic data: > > - Are you affiliated with the site above, or do you independently > cover traffic volume? > > - Do you know if it is possible to attribute a source country to > traffic count? E.g. I can see that the daily traffic on the Tomorrowland > (film) page was 5773 yesterday, however it would be interesting what > proportion of that is US vs. UK vs. etc. > > > > We have never used Wikipedia traffic as a source, so if you are the wrong > team to be asking about this please let me know! > > > > Best regards > > Alex > > > _______________________________________________ > Analytics mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics > -- Dr. Thomas Steiner, Employee, Google Inc. http://blog.tomayac.com, http://twitter.com/tomayac -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iFy0uwAntT0bE3xtRa5AfeCheCkthAtTh3reSabiGbl0ck0fjumBl3DCharaCTersAttH3b0ttom.hTtP5://xKcd.c0m/1181/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Analytics mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics
