Given the large number of visitors, http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/wikipedia.org is not as likely to be completely inaccurate as some lesser visited sites. It estimates the average visitor spends 4:36 minutes a day on the site and views 3.71 pages.
On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 8:43 PM, Dario Taraborelli < [email protected]> wrote: > that's correct, we have no reader time-on-site data, partly because of > technical reasons, partly because this fell in a gray zone of our privacy > policy. The new privacy policy should give us a framework to handle this > data. > > On Aug 22, 2013, at 11:35 AM, Aaron Halfaker <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Good question. Not that I know of. > > The closest thing that I know about is this work: > > Robert West, Ingmar Weber, and Carlos Castillo. 2012. Drawing a > data-driven portrait of Wikipedia editors. WikiSym '12. ACM, New York, NY, > USA, , Article 3 , 10 pages. DOI: 10.1145/2462932.2462937 > http://www.wikisym.org/ws2012/p1wikisym2012.pdf > > It was done using a browser toolbar to correlate Wikipedian editing > patterns with other browsing behavior. > > > On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 1:31 PM, Samuel Klein <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Wonderful. Is there anything similar for reader sessions? >> >> On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 2:21 PM, Aaron Halfaker >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> > It turns out that I have docs, code and research for you. >> > >> > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Metrics/edit_sessions >> > >> > Using Edit Session to Measure Participation in Wikipedia >> > R. Stuart Geiger & Aaron Halfaker. (2013). CSCW (pp. 861-870) >> > DOI:10.1145/2441776.2441873. >> > >> > >> http://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~halfak/publications/Using_Edit_Sessions_to_Measure_Participation_in_Wikipedia/geiger13using-preprint.pdf >> > >> > On Aug 22, 2013 12:55 PM, "Samuel Klein" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> >> I was wondering this also. Are there any good measures of session >> duration >> >> or dwell time on a single page? >> >> >> >> Sam >> >> >> >> On Aug 22, 2013 1:45 PM, "Stella Yu" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> >> >>> We are aware that Wikipedia does not track user sessions. There may be >> >>> survey/poll companies that have surveyed people about their usage and >> their >> >>> time spent on Wikipedia. >> >>> >> >>> Curious, where are there reports that can shed some light on this? >> >>> >> >>> Thank you! >> >>> >> >>> >> >>> All the best, >> >>> >> >>> Stella >> >>> -- >> >>> >> >>> >> >>> _______________________________________________ >> >>> Wiki-research-l mailing list >> >>> [email protected] >> >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l >> >>> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> Wiki-research-l mailing list >> >> [email protected] >> >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l >> >> >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Wiki-research-l mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l >> > >> >> >> >> -- >> Samuel Klein @metasj w:user:sj +1 617 529 >> 4266 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wiki-research-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l >> > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > > -- twitter: purplepopple blog: ozziesport.com
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