Dear Wikimedia Analytics team,
My name is Albrecht Wirthmann. I am working in a task team Big Data at
Eurostat. This is the European statistical office, which makes part of the
European Commission. The task team is exploring new data sources for their
feasibility of producing official statistics. We have been looking at various
internet data sources including Wikimedia. The idea that we are currently
following up is identifying Wikipedia pages in English that are referring to
World Heritage sites and to analyse the number and development of page views of
those pages as an indicator of exposure to culture. For this purpose we
downloaded the page views files from
http://dumps.wikimedia.org/other/pagecounts-ez/. The data should be later on
included in a pocket book showing statistics on culture in the European Union.
I am contacting you to make you aware of our intentions, to ask if there
would be any concerns related to our project and to possibly have a chat with
you and your team to ask some technical questions and about the possibility of
getting some additional data. We would be interested in page hits by country in
order to be more specific on the statistics that we would compile.
We would be very glad about a positive reply and remain at your disposal,
Kind regards,
Albrecht Wirthmann
TF Big Data
Eurostat
BECH building
5, rue Alphonse Weicker
L 2721 Luxembourg
[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
Tel +352 4301 33728
Fax +352 4301 34359
http://www.cros-portal.eu/content/big-data
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