I figured these pointers (which I shared in response to a question on how
to showcase the "volume and diversity of Wikipedia’s interaction with the
scholarly literature") would be useful to others on the lists.
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From: Dario Taraborelli <dtaraborelli(a)wikimedia.org>
*Crossref Event Data*
This is the live demo web client
<http://live.eventdata.crossref.org/live.html>, the vast majority of events
come from Wikipedia. Just opening up this link at any time should give you
a sense of the sheer volume of events coming from Wikipedia across
languages in real time. The API endpoint with today's events is here
<http://api.eventdata.crossref.org/v1/events?source=wikipedia&from-collected-date=2018-05-03>
.
*Wikipedia DOI referrals*
One of my favorite datapoints is the ranking of referring domains
<https://www.crossref.org/blog/where-do-doi-clicks-come-from/> for DOI
lookups, which consistently puts Wikipedia in the top 10
non-primary-publisher sources of traffic to the literature as measured by
Crossref.
*Wikipedia citations*
We recently released a comprehensive dataset of 15 million records
<https://blog.wikimedia.org/2018/04/05/ten-most-cited-sources-wikipedia/>
with all citations by identifiers in Wikipedia across nearly 300 languages.
The data has already been used in a number of analyses (see here
<https://medium.com/@thisismattmiller/analyzing-doi-citations-in-english-wikipedia-2db56bad030b>
and
here
<https://medium.com/@thisismattmiller/analyzing-books-cited-in-english-wikipedia-d7520b7838f3>
from Matt Miller). It got picked up by Wired yesterday, with a nice story
<https://www.wired.com/story/wikipedia-most-cited-authors-no-idea/> on a
paper cited 2.8M times in Wikipedia. This data is being used by other
organizations to drive digitization
<https://blog.archive.org/2018/03/14/lets-build-a-great-digital-library-together-starting-with-a-wishlist/>
and open access
<https://blog.okfn.org/2017/10/26/how-wikimedia-helped-authors-make-over-3000-articles-green-open-access-via-dissemin/>
efforts.
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