I see it is quite complicated to work with this data. It is a pity
considering that valuable insights could be driven by readers' behaviors. I
will think about what can be useful for the study.

Thanks for the answers, Nuria and Marcel! :)
Cheers,

Marc

El dj., 30 juny 2016 a les 14:16, Marcel Ruiz Forns (<[email protected]>)
va escriure:

> Marc, I also see what Nuria says. Also please consider that the majority
> of Wikipedia sessions have only one pageview. So in the majority of
> sessions it would not be possible to approximate the time spent on page
> with boundaries with Joseph's alternative.
>
> On Thu, Jun 30, 2016 at 2:02 PM, Nuria Ruiz <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> >Aye, as Joseph says, the time-on-page or time-leaving is not collected,
>> except as an extension of session reconstruction work. If you want a
>> >concrete time, you're not gonna get it.
>>
>> I was about to make the same point, the data set that will most closely
>> answer your questions is the one Oliver mentioned, otherwise we do not keep
>> any information related to time on site and page requests so there is no
>> "approximation" possible that will work on overall data. Even if you
>> calculate signatures with IP-hash +user agent to approximate users (a
>> method with known issues) there is no way for you to distinguish someone
>> reading a page for an hour and someone that came to wikipedia twice in the
>> same hour and spent a minute each time. Hopefully my example makes things
>> more clear.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Nuria
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 4:58 AM, Oliver Keyes <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Aye, as Joseph says, the time-on-page or time-leaving is not collected,
>>> except as an extension of session reconstruction work. If you want a
>>> concrete time, you're not gonna get it.
>>>
>>> While PC-based data is more reliable than mobile, that does not
>>> necessarily mean "reliable". I'm sort of confused, I guess, as to why the
>>> datasets I linked (unless I'm misremembering them?) don't help: you would
>>> have to do the calculation yourself but they should contain all the data
>>> necessary to make that calculation (unless you want to have the pageID or
>>> title associated with the time-on-page, in which case...yeah, that's an
>>> issue).
>>>
>>> On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 3:16 AM, Marc Miquel <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Thanks for the answer, Oliver. But I am not sure it answers my
>>>> questions. I'd like to study aspects like how much time is spent in
>>>> certain pages, as a proxy of how content is approached/read/understood. I'd
>>>> be happy with time of entering the page, time of leaving. This is not
>>>> entirely centered on 'user activity', but I said that because I imagined
>>>> data would be stored in a similar way to editor sessions, or in a database
>>>> and I would need to do the time calculations.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>>
>>>> Marc
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> El dc., 29 juny, 2016 03:11, Oliver Keyes <[email protected]> va
>>>> escriure:
>>>>
>>>>> If historic data is okay, there's already a dataset released (
>>>>> https://figshare.com/articles/Activity_Sessions_datasets/1291033)
>>>>> that was designed specifically to answer questions around how to best
>>>>> calculate session length with regards to Wikipedia (
>>>>> http://arxiv.org/abs/1411.2878)
>>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 3:42 PM, Marc Miquel <[email protected]>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hello!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I was thinking about user sessions, yes, so this would mean to
>>>>>> aggregate pageviews visited by a user during a short amount of time (I
>>>>>> should check the cutoff, but it could be around an hour or less).
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I am particularly interested in understanding the order in which
>>>>>> pages are seen (start, end), duration, etc.
>>>>>> I wouldn't need data from a long period neither, but I think data
>>>>>> from multiple languages would be helpful.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I imagined reader data could be sensitive to privacy, but would an
>>>>>> NDA with my university and some sort of data encoding help with this? As 
>>>>>> I
>>>>>> said, it is for a scientific purpose.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Marc
>>>>>>
>>>>>> El dt., 28 juny 2016 a les 21:09, Nuria Ruiz (<[email protected]>)
>>>>>> va escriure:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hello!
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> >I am considering to study reader engagement for different article
>>>>>>> topics in different languages. Because of this, I would like to know if
>>>>>>> there is >any plan to make available pageviews dumps detailing activity 
>>>>>>> log
>>>>>>> at session level per user - in a similar way to editor sessions.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Are you thinking of "all-pageviews-visited-by-a-certain-user"? If
>>>>>>> so, no we do not have any projects to provide that data as due to 
>>>>>>> privacy
>>>>>>> concerns we neither have nor keep that information.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Nuria
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 6:55 PM, Leila Zia <[email protected]>
>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> + Analytics
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 6:36 AM, Marc Miquel <[email protected]>
>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> I have a question for you regarding pageviews datadumps.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> I am considering to study reader engagement for different article
>>>>>>>>> topics in different languages. Because of this, I would like to know 
>>>>>>>>> if
>>>>>>>>> there is any plan to make available pageviews dumps detailing 
>>>>>>>>> activity log
>>>>>>>>> at session level per user - in a similar way to editor sessions.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Since this would be for a research project I might ask funding for
>>>>>>>>> it, I would like to know if I could count on that, what is the nature 
>>>>>>>>> of
>>>>>>>>> the available data, and what would be the procedure to obtain this 
>>>>>>>>> data and
>>>>>>>>> if there would be any implication because of privacy concerns.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Thank you very much!
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Best,
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Marc Miquel
>>>>>>>>> ᐧ
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