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 you independently
> cover traffic volume?
>
> -          Do you know if it is possible to attribute a source country to
> traffic 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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