Hi Alex,
Thanks Thomas for mentioning our work. There's also an extension of our work to other languages/countries: http://arxiv.org/abs/1405.5924
Best, Taha
On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 5:05 PM, Thomas Steiner tomac@google.com wrote:
Hi Alex,
You probably just want to read Taha's publication on the exact topic: http://dataconomy.com/using-wikipedia-activity-data-forecast-movie-success/
Cheers, Tom
On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 4:27 PM, Alex Harrison alex.harrison@waytoblue.com wrote:
Hi Wikipedia analysts,
I work in product development for the Insights team at Way To Blue. We provide reports to major film studios to provide them with information
about
how their films are doing on social platforms over the course of their marketing campaign, up to a film’s release in cinemas.
We typically focus on social media volumes (and traditionally split by Twitter, Forums, Blogs and News), however I just stumbled across the free Wikipedia article traffic statistics site (http://stats.grok.se/ ) and
am
thinking that daily Wikipedia traffic could be an interesting additional metric for us to report. I have a few questions about daily Wikipedia traffic data:
Are you affiliated with the site above, or do youindependently
cover traffic volume?
Do you know if it is possible to attribute a source country totraffic count? E.g. I can see that the daily traffic on the Tomorrowland (film) page was 5773 yesterday, however it would be interesting what proportion of that is US vs. UK vs. etc.
We have never used Wikipedia traffic as a source, so if you are the wrong team to be asking about this please let me know!
Best regards
Alex
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