Hi, Just want to follow up on this to see if the proposal gained any traction.
I really think it will help us understand how LLMs depend on and impact Wikipedia. Best, Kai On Wed, Jun 3, 2026 at 2:09 PM Kai Zhu <[email protected]> wrote: > 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]
