[teampractices] Analysis of traffic to TPG's Mediawiki pages

[Kevin Smith]

This is interesting data. My first reaction is that knowing unique users or
sessions would be very helpful. It would be fantastic to filter out TPG.
I'm not sure if a simple binary logged-in vs. anonymous would help or not.
If we're getting hundreds or thousands of anonymous hits, that could
indicate interest and value outside the foundation.

Which Orwell was that? Canada? UK? US?

I do agree that it's not clear what to do with the data, aside from
pondering it with a scholarly look on one's face.




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On Mon, Aug 3, 2015 at 3:32 PM, Kevin Leduc <kevin at wikimedia.org> wrote:

> BTW this data is for May 2015 only.  I was not able to get the data for
> June or July on Friday due to maintenance.  It should be possible now if
> wanted.  Let me know.
>
> On Mon, Aug 3, 2015 at 1:54 PM, Joel Aufrecht <jaufrecht at wikimedia.org>
> wrote:
>
>> Kevin Leduc ran some traffic analysis for us.
>>
>> Total traffic since May 1, 2015:
>> *TPG Page* *Page Views* Improving_burndown_charts 493 / 396 Glossary 385
>> How_to_run_a_good_meeting 184 Health_check_survey 157
>> Best_Practices_Handbook 143 Task_Tracking 133 Phabricator_Tips 119
>> Onboarding 98 Team_Norms 69 Roles_and_Responsibilities 68
>> Recommended_Reading 50 Retrospectives/2015-04-27 50
>> Retrospectives/Team_Health_Check_-_FY2015Q3 36 Retrospectives 17 SOPs 17
>> Task_Tracking_Temp 15 Proposal_for_formation 13
>> Health_check_survey/FY2014-15Q1 8
>> Health_check_survey/Guidance_for_facilitators 8 Retrospectives/2015-03-26
>> 6 Q2_2014_app_health_check 2 Phabricator_tips'A=0 1
>> (E.g., "Improving_burndown_charts" is
>> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Team_Practices_Group/Improving_burndown_charts
>> )
>>
>> We can't tell TPG users from other users, but we do have a little
>> geographic data.  The top 10 cities cover 80% of views, but the full list
>> runs over 150 cities.
>>
>> Orwell 535 Unknown 439 San Francisco 331 Boulder 243 Ashburn 144 Boardman
>> 130 Pleasant Hill 79 Tokyo 38 Buffalo 33 Mountain View 30
>> The countries are much more concentrated:
>>
>> United States 1826 Germany 211 France 69 Unknown 59 Poland 48 Japan 46
>> China 35 Canada 26 Ireland 19 Chile 15
>> One country/page combo stood out:
>>
>> Germany: 176 views: Improving_burndown_charts
>>
>> Conclusions:
>>
>>    - A gut estimate of how much TPGers edit the TPG pages suggests that
>>    most of this volume comes from TPG, but not all of it.
>>    - There doesn't seem to be any practical way to confirm that one way
>>    or the other
>>    - I'm not sure how we would interpret various #s of non-TPG readers
>>    (or editors) anyway.  What is the value to the Foundation if 20 people read
>>    at least one glossary entry?  How much more effective would they have to
>>    become to justify the work spent on it?  How else do we get value from the
>>    glossary (or other pages) - how much more efficient does having it make us?
>>    - I asked Kevin if he could run this automatically once a month; if
>>    there is some change we can investigate.  Other than that, I don't have any
>>    plan to investigate this further.
>>
>>
>>
>> *Joel Aufrecht*
>> Team Practices Group
>> Wikimedia Foundation
>>
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