On 11/18/2017 12:40 AM, Nuria Ruiz wrote:
In case anyone wonders our FAQ for ad-hoc data requests is here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:FAQ#Where_do_I_find_data_or_statist...
Thanks. That link suggests that the "Discovery" team would be the right one to contact about referred traffic. Maybe that subsection [1] could benefit from a few more lines to add direct mention of referred traffic which is e therin the main description in the FAQ and is also what I am looking for:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T144714
As mentioned, I expect that from an author perspective, it is similar for other books. Also, getting some data as clues from search terms would be better than the current situation of no data.
Given the changes going on in the world with the phasing out of the "referer" and phasing in of the "origin" HTTP headers, there is less and less of that particular data going forward. However, even historical data is still somewhat useful in my case. The same for even partial coverage with current header data. Because of the restricted nature of the data searched through, there seem to be only a few people able to do task T144714, even though the query formula seems, from the outside at least, easily re-usable for other books. I don't want to bother people with repeated requests and at the same time I would not want the task neglected indefinitely.
What would be my best course of action to get someone new or old to work through T144714 as a smaller task rather than a larger project?
/Lars
[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Product#Discovery