Hi all, I'd like to float a small extension to the Clickstream dataset that I think would make it considerably more useful for studying how AI assistants are reshaping traffic to Wikipedia.
Right now the referrer mapping scheme gives an external search engine its own value (other-search) but folds everything else into other-external, or into other-empty when the referrer is stripped. That means clickthroughs from AI assistants — ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Copilot, Claude, and so on — are effectively invisible, mixed in with the rest of the external web. My suggestion is to add one more mapped value, say other-ai, populated by matching referrers against a maintained list of AI-assistant / LLM product domains. The payoff is that the Clickstream becomes a longitudinal instrument for a question the community is already wrestling with: how much traffic AI intermediaries actually send back to Wikipedia, and how that's trending over time. Thanks for considering it, Kai Zhu Bocconi University _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
