Hi Amir,

We're working on a link improvement project [1] that will answer your first two questions. The first round of tests will be on ptwiki, then enwiki, and depending on the results we may add more languages. The algorithm used is robust to the choice of language, its accuracy, however, depends on the traffic the language receives.

We will continue to update the project page as more results become available.

Best,
Leila

[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Improving_link_coverage

On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 5:44 AM, Amir E. Aharoni <amir.aharoni@mail.huji.ac.il> wrote:

Hi,

Are there metrics about which links in each article are the most clicked?

I can think there's a lot to be learned from it:
* Data-driven suggestions for manual of style about linking (too much and too few links are a perennial topic of argument)
* How do people traverse between topics.
* Which terms in the article may need a short explanation in parentheses rather than just a link.
* How far down into the article do people bother to read.

Anyway, I can think that accessibility to such data can optimize both readership and editing.

And maybe this can be just taken right from the logs, without any additional EventLogging.

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