Hi Alex,
Thanks Thomas for mentioning our work.
There's also an extension of our work to other languages/countries:
Best,
Taha
On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 5:05 PM, Thomas Steiner <tomac(a)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(a)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
_______________________________________________
Analytics mailing list
Analytics(a)lists.wikimedia.org
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics
--
Dr. Thomas Steiner, Employee, Google Inc.
http://blog.tomayac.com,
http://twitter.com/tomayac
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux)
iFy0uwAntT0bE3xtRa5AfeCheCkthAtTh3reSabiGbl0ck0fjumBl3DCharaCTersAttH3b0ttom.hTtP5://xKcd.c0m/1181/
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
Research Fellow in Computational Social Science
Oxford Internet Institute
University of Oxford
1 St. Giles
Oxford OX1 3JS
UK
Tel. +44-1865-287229