Excellent, Thanks for sharing the news. A quick look at Google Analytics shows a sharp rise in Referrals from Wikipedia since last week.
Also, I am happy to share analytics from the National Library of Wales. Best Jason On Tuesday, March 1, 2016 16:01 GMT, Alex Stinson <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > Since the HTTP to HTTPS change last summer, a number of Wikipedia Library > and GLAM partners have reported a drop in traffic reported as "referrals" > from Wikipedia, where many of these referrals are being reported as organic > referrals, effectively creating "dark traffic". > > Dario Taraborelli from the research team, worked with Wikimedia Ops to find > a solution to this problem. He and I are also working with a number of > movement partners to understand this effect, and better assess how > Wikipedia references provide referrals to frequently cited websites (see > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research_talk:Wikimedia_referrer_policy and > https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T87276 ). > > Last Tuesday (Feb 23) the ops team turned on a new "meta referrer tag" so > that sites getting traffic via clicks from Wikimedia pages may see these > referrals in analytics reports. Several publishers have of an increase in > correctly labeled Wikimedia traffic. > > Since this effect has been in place for about a week: you may want to let > your partners at cultural heritage institutions know about this change. > Historically, referrals have been a indicator of partnership success and a > persuasive tool for organizations to participate, and the HTTPS change may > have obscured this. > > Moreover, if your GLAM partners would be interested in supporting by > sharing referral traffic: we will be collecting partner analytics data from > January 1 to March 30 in about a month. Let me know if you think your GLAM > partner would like to participate. > > Cheers, > > Alex Stinson -- Jason Evans Wicipediwr Preswyl / Wikipedian in Residence Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru / National Library of Wales [email protected] Ffon/Tel: +44 (0)1970 632405 _______________________________________________ GLAM-US mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/glam-us
