I wanted to follow up and second on Magnus&#39; <a href="http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/analytics/2012-December/000272.html">December request</a> for more usable way to access page view stats. Mining these stats is attracting an increasing amount of attention from researchers (<a href="http://www.l3s.de/~kanhabua/papers/ECIR2013-WikiEvents.pdf">http://www.l3s.de/~kanhabua/papers/ECIR2013-WikiEvents.pdf</a>, <a href="http://arxiv.org/pdf/1212.5943v1.pdf">http://arxiv.org/pdf/1212.5943v1.pdf</a>, <a href="http://arxiv.org/pdf/1211.0970.pdf">http://arxiv.org/pdf/1211.0970.pdf</a>) even as the current approaches for extracting them from <a href="http://stats.grok.se">stats.grok.se</a> or the dumps are slow and inhumane (respectively).<div>
<br></div><div>I&#39;m also interested in looking at bursts of pageview activity on articles and then examining the extent to which this pageview activity diffuses over the local wiki-link network. I suspect this has strong implications for understanding patterns of editing activity; namely, editing activity may be non-trivially coupled with sudden attention to articles that are a few degrees of separation away. I&#39;d be happy to chat with folks inside or outside of WMF about getting access to the relevant view stats and beginning such an analysis.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div><br></div><div>Brian</div>