Hi,
My name is Emily Chen and
I'm a Computer Science Ph.D. student at the University of Southern
California. I tried sending this email earlier before I had joined the mailer, so apologies if this email was sent out twice! I'm currently conducting research on collective attention
decay in Wikipedia articles that are more heavily cited by other
Wikipedia articles within the Wikipedia ecosystem. This work builds upon
the observations made in Candia et al's paper on "
The universal decay of collective memory and attention", and I have been using the number of page views articles receive as a proxy for attention.
From what I can find, there is a maintained page view data set on
dumps.wikipmedia.org
that spans 2011-current, and statistics that Domas Mituzas began
collecting from 2007 - 2016. This data seems to capture the gradual
decay in an individual article's pageviews, but doesn't capture the
initial growth of an article's page views. Would you happen to know if
there are article page view statistics from the earlier years of
Wikipedia (2001-2007) or if there are any general page view statistics
from that time frame? Or would you happen to know who I could contact
for such a dataset? It would be really interesting to study the temporal
page view dynamics over Wikipedia's lifespan alongside my current work
in collective attention.
Thank you so much for your time!
Best,
Emily Chen
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Emily Chen (echen920 [at] usc [dot] edu)
Ph.D. Student | Computer Science
Viterbi School of Engineering & Information Sciences Institute
University of Southern California