What a great idea! I think this would be fascinating - it's outside the scope of what we'll accomplish in the initial project phase but it would be an interesting complimentary project or something to think about as a second effort that would increase the value of the data.
Andrea On Tue, May 2, 2017 at 8:49 AM, Robert West <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > This looks like a great project! > > One quick thought: it would be extremely useful for your purposes to > be able to study not only the static structure of references pointing > from Wikipedia to external documents, but also how these references > are used. Tracking this traffic is currently impossible, since it will > only leave a footprint on the webserver of the link target, not on > Wikimedia's webservers. > > Have you thought about the possibility of funneling external links > through a Wikimedia URL, which would allow you to record the links > through which users leave Wikipedia? > > I know this would be a major change to the infrastructure, and I'm not > sure how the privacy implications would line up with Wikipedia's > guidelines, but it's worthwhile giving it some serious thought. At the > very least, Wikimedia could store counts of external-link clicks, > without linking those clicks to users' Wikimedia-internal browse > traces. > > Bob > > On Mon, May 1, 2017 at 9:17 PM, Andrea Forte <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > > > One of my PhD students, Meen Chul Kim, is a data scientist with > experience > > in bibliometrics and we will be working on some citation-related research > > together with Aaron and Dario in the coming months. Our main goal in the > > short term is to develop an enhanced citation dataset that will allow for > > future analyses of citation data associated with article quality, > > lifecycle, editing trends, etc. > > > > > > The project page is here: > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Understanding_ > the_context_of_citations_in_Wikipedia > > > > > > The project is just getting started so this is a great time to offer > > feedback and suggestions, especially for features of citations that we > > should mine as a first step, since this will affect what the dataset can > be > > used for in the future. > > > > > > Looking forward to seeing some of you at WikiCite!! > > > > Andrea > > > > > > > > > > -- > > :: Andrea Forte > > :: Associate Professor > > :: College of Computing and Informatics, Drexel University > > :: http://www.andreaforte.net > > _______________________________________________ > > Wiki-research-l mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > -- :: Andrea Forte :: Associate Professor :: College of Computing and Informatics, Drexel University :: http://www.andreaforte.net _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
