Cool. Good idea. /me flags for reading this weekend. On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 10:54 AM, Dario Taraborelli < [email protected]> wrote:
> I’ve been discussing with the folks at CrossRef (the largest registry of > Digital Object Identifiers, think of it as the ICANN of science) how to > accurately measure the impact of traffic driven from Wikipedia/Wikimedia to > scholarly resources. > > While digging into their data, we realized that since Wikimedia started > the HTTPS switchover and an increasing portion of inbound traffic happens > over SSL, Wikimedia sites may have stopped advertising themselves as > sources of referred traffic to external sites. While this is a literal > implication of HTTPS, it means that Wikimedia's impact on traffic directed > to other sites is becoming largely invisible and Wikimedia might be turning > into a large source of dark traffic. > > I wrote a proposal reviewing the CrossRef use case and discussing how > other top web properties deal with this issue by adopting a so-called > "Referrer Policy”: > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Wikimedia_referrer_policy > > Feedback is welcome on the talk page: > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research_talk:Wikimedia_referrer_policy > > Dario > > _______________________________________________ > Analytics mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics > > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
