Requests with "Special:Random" / total number of requests for each project.
On Sat, Mar 19, 2016 at 11:08 PM, < [email protected]> wrote: > Send Wiki-research-l mailing list submissions to > [email protected] > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > [email protected] > > You can reach the person managing the list at > [email protected] > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Wiki-research-l digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: Wiki-research-l Digest, Vol 127, Issue 15 (Felix J. Scholz) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2016 18:08:11 -0400 > From: "Felix J. Scholz" <[email protected]> > To: Research into Wikimedia content and communities > <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Wiki-research-l] Wiki-research-l Digest, Vol 127, Issue > 15 > Message-ID: > < > cadbcukyu1kdzllvtokjrqao6so017mxmncewyxpdujmnm--...@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > Most likely, it is the absolute number of random searches in billions > On Mar 19, 2016 6:01 PM, "Andrew Gray" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi Alex, > > > > Stupid question - is that "3.36% of all random-article searches were on > > Latvian WP", or "3.36% of all searches (pageviews?) on the Latvian WP > were > > through random-article"? > > > > Andrew. > > > > On 19 March 2016 at 21:34, Alex Druk <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> Mark J. Nelson writes: > >> >Specifically, a small slice of content, mainly English Wikipedia > >> >articles on pop culture, recent news events, and U.S. politics, > >> >contribute a disproportionate share of views. (A weekly top-25 list for > >> >enwiki is at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Top_25_Report ). > So > >> >if you're measuring aggregate numbers, you're measuring mainly that > >> >specific type of content. If the goal is really simply to reach as many > >> >people as possible, have high page views and unique visitor counts, > >> >etc., then this subset of articles is really the only important part of > >> >Wikimedia's mission--- articles on, say, mathematics, don't contribute > >> >anything to moving the needle if that's the metric. > >> > >> One should also consider the fact that significant number of users use > >> Wikipedia as entertainment. As an example of such use is random > searches. On > >> all Wikipedia sites number of random searches in 2014 exceeded 1 > billion. > >> Here is a simple graph illustrated this: > >> [image: Inline image 1] > >> > >> ~~Alex > >> > >> > >> On Sat, Mar 19, 2016 at 1:00 PM, < > >> [email protected]> wrote: > >> > >>> Send Wiki-research-l mailing list submissions to > >>> [email protected] > >>> > >>> To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > >>> or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > >>> [email protected] > >>> > >>> You can reach the person managing the list at > >>> [email protected] > >>> > >>> When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > >>> than "Re: Contents of Wiki-research-l digest..." > >>> > >>> > >>> Today's Topics: > >>> > >>> 1. Re: unique visitors (Mark J. Nelson) > >>> > >>> > >>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >>> > >>> Message: 1 > >>> Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2016 20:57:45 +0100 > >>> From: Mark J. Nelson <[email protected]> > >>> To: Research into Wikimedia content and communities > >>> <[email protected]> > >>> Subject: Re: [Wiki-research-l] unique visitors > >>> Message-ID: <[email protected]> > >>> Content-Type: text/plain > >>> > >>> phoebe ayers <[email protected]> writes: > >>> > >>> > I wonder if there's a qualitative project somewhere in here about > >>> > *types* of use -- e.g. if I'm using WP on my phone & my work pc is > >>> > that really equivalent use? Perhaps I am using them for different > >>> > kinds of information seeking, e.g. looking up terms related to work > vs > >>> > looking up info on movie stars -- does this different kind of use > >>> > matter for how we construct and present information, or count "use"? > >>> > >>> Beyond the issue of devices, I think this is important in part because > >>> the raw traffic counts (and reach numbers and similar) paint a very > >>> specific story of what Wikimedia is doing and is successful at. (And > >>> what you measure influences what you tend to optimize for.) > >>> > >>> Specifically, a small slice of content, mainly English Wikipedia > >>> articles on pop culture, recent news events, and U.S. politics, > >>> contribute a disproportionate share of views. (A weekly top-25 list for > >>> enwiki is at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Top_25_Report ). > So > >>> if you're measuring aggregate numbers, you're measuring mainly that > >>> specific type of content. If the goal is really simply to reach as many > >>> people as possible, have high page views and unique visitor counts, > >>> etc., then this subset of articles is really the only important part of > >>> Wikimedia's mission--- articles on, say, mathematics, don't contribute > >>> anything to moving the needle if that's the metric. > >>> > >>> -Mark > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> ------------------------------ > >>> > >>> Subject: Digest Footer > >>> > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> Wiki-research-l mailing list > >>> [email protected] > >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > >>> > >>> > >>> ------------------------------ > >>> > >>> End of Wiki-research-l Digest, Vol 127, Issue 15 > >>> ************************************************ > >>> > >> > >> > >> > >> -- > >> Thank you. > >> > >> Alex Druk > >> [email protected] > >> (775) 237-8550 Google voice > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Wiki-research-l mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > >> > >> > > > > > > -- > > - Andrew Gray > > [email protected] > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Wiki-research-l mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > > > > > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: < > https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wiki-research-l/attachments/20160319/561cf0ef/attachment.html > > > -------------- next part -------------- > A non-text attachment was scrubbed... > Name: image.png > Type: image/png > Size: 133824 bytes > Desc: not available > URL: < > https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wiki-research-l/attachments/20160319/561cf0ef/attachment.png > > > > ------------------------------ > > Subject: Digest Footer > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > > > ------------------------------ > > End of Wiki-research-l Digest, Vol 127, Issue 18 > ************************************************ > -- Thank you. 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