Dear members of the Analytics Team!
Please, consider my request for information or collaboration. I am
conducting the research project on the international determinants of
education quality. In my view, Wikimedia statistics is the priceless
resource of information on how much learning people do outside of
educational institutions.
I would like to access the data on Wikipedia pageviews by country, language
and content area to measure the private learning in different countries. My
previous empirical results suggest that Wikipedia pageviews are highly
correlated with education quality. Unfortunately, the available data does
not allow to separate the educational pageviews from the pure entertainment
pageviews (for example, celebrities biographies).
I am aware that the data currently is not the part of the publicly
available dataset. Please, consider two options. First, I am ready to
collaborate with you on making this data available as other researchers
have done in the past. I would appreciate if you let me know which steps I
need to take in order to work with you on this task. Second, you can
consider making this data available after achieving the necessary level of
confidentiality. For example, you can group request types so that each
group has at least 1000 unique IP-addresses.
I am looking forward to hear from you on my opportunities to use this data.
I think that it is going to be very interesting to know how much people
learn from Wikipedia, for example, in India versus Brazil and Egypt. Do
people in Indonesia learn less than people in Germany due to poor quality
school systems or low private incentives for learning? I am also sure that
many social scientists will also benefit from using such information (if
you make it available) and will produce some policy-relevant research.
Best regards,
Alexander Ugarov,
Ph. D. Candidate.
Sam M. Walton College of Business
Department of Economics
University of Arkansas
Office: ECOB260
E-mail: augarov(a)uark.edu.