Quick question: Does this have en.wp data only, or can I query (as in CSV)
other wikipedias/projects? And, can I limit the data range (not really
necessary, but less data to transmit)?
On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 9:09 AM, Alex Druk <alex.druk(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Burton,
We just opened a new site
www.wikipediatrends.com that show Wikipedia
page view data. Our site is very similar to existing
http://tools.wmflabs.org/wikiviewstats/ and
http://stats.grok.se/, 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 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, where we study the social impact of media (primarily
television and film). I'm currently building an interactive web app 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, and issue-related pages, e.g. 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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