Don't forget to *consider the redirect*[1] when associating pageviews with an actual page.
>From [1]: In a highly-cited article, Priedhorsky et al. combine Wiki- > pedia view data with edit data and do not mention account- > ing for redirects[6]. Although not a central finding in their > paper, the authors note with surprise that they find a weak > correlation between edits and views. Because redirects are > edited infrequently but "viewed" as often as millions of times > per month each, redirects may be contributing to the sur- > prisingly low correlation between edits and views noted by > Priedhorsky et al. and others. > 1. https://mako.cc/academic/hill_shaw-consider_the_redirect.pdf On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 12:35 PM, Oliver Keyes <[email protected]> wrote: > Heya, > > We have a new RESTful API at > https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/?doc#!/Pageviews_data/ that should > let you get the data you want at a monthly level. If you're using R, > we already have a client library at > https://github.com/Ironholds/pageviews > > Hope that helps! > > On 25 November 2015 at 14:07, Ying Haw Lee <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hey guys, > > > > Good afternoon. I am working on a data-mining project on Wikipedia data. > Our > > main question is whether the number of page view is correlated with the > > number of reverted edits.In order to have a fair comparison between > > different portal (People, Technology, Math and etc) , I would like to get > > the 250 most viewed pages for each portal (12 in total). > > > > I notice that on Wikipedia, there is a page where weekly page view data > are > > aggregated and the 5000 most viewed pages of the week are listed. > > > > However, in order to see the behavior between the number of page views > and > > the number of reverted edits, I would need data for a longer duration > (Say a > > month or longer). > > > > I wonder if there is any way (hopefully easy way) that I can query the > data > > I need. > > > > Your help is highly appreciated. > > > > Happy Thanksgiving! > > > > Anson > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Analytics mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics > > > > > > -- > Oliver Keyes > Count Logula > Wikimedia Foundation > > _______________________________________________ > Analytics mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics >
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