We’re glad to announce the release of an aggregate clickstream dataset extracted from
English Wikipedia
http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.1305770
<http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.1305770>
This dataset contains counts of (referer, article) pairs aggregated from the HTTP request
logs of English Wikipedia. This snapshot captures 22 million (referer, article) pairs from
a total of 4 billion requests collected during the month of January 2015.
This data can be used for various purposes:
• determining the most frequent links people click on for a given article
• determining the most common links people followed to an article
• determining how much of the total traffic to an article clicked on a link in that
article
• generating a Markov chain over English Wikipedia
We created a page on Meta for feedback and discussion about this release:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research_talk:Wikipedia_clickstream
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research_talk:Wikipedia_clickstream>
Ellery and Dario