Hi Alex, Thanks Thomas for mentioning our work. There's also an extension of our work to other languages/countries: http://arxiv.org/abs/1405.5924
Best, Taha On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 5:05 PM, Thomas Steiner <[email protected]> wrote: > 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----- > -- Dr Taha Yasseri http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/people/yasseri/ Research Fellow in Computational Social Science Oxford Internet Institute University of Oxford 1 St. Giles Oxford OX1 3JS UK Tel. +44-1865-287229
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