Hi all,
I'm attempting to do some research into how different cultures consume
information. I'm focusing specifically on how this varies by time of day
and time of year. I had the idea of using the Wikipedia projectviews data
as a proxy for overall information, since Wikipedia is usually the first or
second search result for most interesting bits of information from pop
culture to geopolitics to science. Unfortunately, after looking at WiViVi,
it seems like my naive assumption of separating out Wikipedias by language
doesn't actually resolve that cleanly into countries. Since I'm
particularly interested in the effects of seasonality (e.g. different
academic calendars and holidays across countries, different lunchtimes
between northern and southern European countries in the same timezones), I
can't make the assumption that the % of traffic to a project from each
country is constant.
Is there any way I can get an hourly time series of which countries are
viewing which Wikipedias? Even a (country x project) resolution summary of
average views for the 24 hours of the day would be helpful, if that data
exists anywhere.
Thanks!
Dakota Killpack