Dear Fabian,
Let me relay your question to the WMF Analytics Team.
Best regards,
Erik Zachte
From: Fabian Stephany [mailto:fns27@cam.ac.uk]
Sent: Sunday, February 05, 2017 20:48
To: erikzachte(a)infodisiac.com; erikzachte(a)wikimedia.org
Cc: Fabian Braesemann
Subject: Research on wikipedia traffic and educational quality
Dear Erik,
please allow me to contact you regarding your work for wikipedia
(
https://stats.wikimedia.org/ <http://stats.grok.se/> ). My colleague and me
(Oxford Internet Institute/University of Cambridge/Wittgenstein Centre
Vienna) are about to start a research project on educational quality and
wikipedia traffic.
Hopefully, you find the time give us some advise on our questions regarding
wikipedia access and edit traffic. We want to look at the category and
geographical origin of wikipedia article access and editing.
A) ACCESS TRAFFIC
We are interested in wikipedia clicks per world-wide geographical unit
(sub-national, ideally) and per category
(
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Contents/Categories).
Is there a way to stream (maybe per API) the origin of wikipedia clicks in a
specific category? Instead it would already be great for us to find a
statistic that shows regional access statistics on wikipedia in general over
time.
B) EDITING TRAFFIC
As far as we have seen, it is possible to access the editing statistics
(often with IP addresses given) for the last 30 days
(
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?namespace=
<https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?namespace=&tagfilter=&days=30&title=Sp
ecial:RecentChanges> &tagfilter=&days=30&title=Special%3ARecentChanges).
Is
there likewise a tool or API to steam the editing process of wikipedia (IP
and editor name, if registered)?
Thank you very much for your help or likewise for suggesting somebody, who
could help us out.
Best wishes,
Fabian Stephany, PhD MSc, MPhil Cantab
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