that show Wikipedia
page view data. Our site is very similar to existing
, but
use slightly different approach to calculating and presenting data as well
as allow comparison of different articles.
I hope it will serve your purpose. I am ready to discuss integration out
of the list.
Alex Druk
On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 11:40 PM, Burton DeWilde <
burton(a)harmony-institute.org> wrote:
Dear Toby,
I recently saw your comment on a blog
post<http://magnusmanske.de/wordpress/?p=173>by Magnus Manske regarding the lack of
Wikipedia page view data besides the
oft-overloaded
http://stats.grok.se/. I was wondering if there's been
any progress at WMF on building a more stable, central, and complete source
for this data?
I ask because I'm a data scientist at a small research non-profit called Harmony
Institute <http://harmony-institute.org/>, where we study the social
impact of media (primarily television and film). I'm currently building an
interactive web app <http://harmony-institute.org/work/impactspace/>that visualizes
social impact on a variety of issues by many documentary
films. One indicator of interest is "information-seeking behavior," i.e.
are audiences seeking out information about a film or issue. Besides Google
search trends, an excellent proxy for this is Wikipedia page views for both
film pages, e.g. Escape
Fire<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escape_Fire:_The_Fight_to_Rescue_Ameri…re>,
and issue-related pages, e.g. Health care
reform<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_care_reform>
.
I'm currently trying to use stats.grok.se to grab raw data in JSON form;
unfortunately, the site almost always responds with "Server overloaded,
please throttle your requests," and no amount of throttling seems to
suffice. I'm aware that there are many TBs of raw data for the downloading,
but I don't have the resources to handle that much data, nor do I need more
than the tiniest fraction of it.
I would *love* to show Wikipedia page view statistics for film pages in
our app. If you have any updates on progress or suggestions on how I might
do this, I would be very appreciative.
Thanks very much for your and all of WMF's hard work — I'm a proud donor
to the cause. :)
Best,
Burton DeWilde
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