Hi Alexander,
If you have relevant skills with developing software, and the interest and
time to help out, then WMF Project Grants might be able to provide you with
some financial support for work in this area. Have a look at
Pine
On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 7:24 AM, Dan Andreescu <dandreescu(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
Alexander, thanks for writing. It's possible to
get data by category and
country, though it is quite hard and limited to internal use at the
moment. We are working to both make it easier and available for publishing
to the world, but there is a lot of work to be done. We're an open source
project, so of course you can contribute to that work, I can link you and
others interested. You can also apply for a research project here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:New_project
If you apply for a research project, you'll have to sign an NDA to get
access to this data, and meet all the requirements of the research team.
Either way, I hope that within a year or so, the kind of question you're
asking will be possible to answer with public data.
On Wed, Nov 2, 2016 at 3:22 PM, Alexander Ugarov <AUgarov(a)walton.uark.edu>
wrote:
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
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