Hi!
I'm a Ph.D. student in economics, using some of the Wikimedia data in my research. My
question is whether it's possible to get the data on Wikipedia pageviews by country
and article category? Currently the Wikimedia Foundation provides the aggregate data on
pageviews by country and the less aggregate data on pageviews by article, but it looks
that there is no way to find out, for example, the pageviews of math articles in India.
More specifically, my questions are:
1) If is it possible in some way to extract the information on pageviews by country and
subject area from your publicly available data? The amount of data currently available is
already vast, and I could miss it.
2) If it is not possible, then how can I persuade you into making this data available?
I'm going to argue that the data can be made available without losing confidentiality
by using either first IP numbers or by publishing only the country of the user, as well as
aggregating by the category.
I'm looking forward to hear from you. I'm sure that many social scientists will be
also glad to use the opportunity to produce more interesting and policy-relevant
research.
Best regards,
Alexander Ugarov,
Ph.D. Candidate
Sam M. Walton College of Business
Department of Economics
University of Arkansas