On Sat, Feb 2, 2013 at 6:18 AM, Oliver Keyes <
okeyes@wikimedia.org> wrote:
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> On 2 February 2013 03:33, Liam Wyatt <
liamwyatt@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> I'd like to give a giant +1 to Chris's suggestion - telling (potential)
>> editors how many other people have read the article is a big motivator. It's
>> logical really, we know this from the Education outreach projects and also
>> from all the GLAM content donations: people REALLY are motivated by the fact
>> that *their* writing and multimedia is being seen by lots of people.
>>
>> Currently that information is rather hidden away in a link to the
>> toolserver via the History tab. If you could bring that information more to
>> the fore it could be really satisfying. For example:
>> "30 people have looked at your article since you made your edit." or,
>> "350 people have seen this article in the last month" or even "6 other
>> editors have changed this article and 500 people have read it since you last
>> helped edit it". Perhaps you could even give some more complex breakdowns
>> with pageviews by continent?
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> The problem with this (or potential problem) is twofold: first, with a large
> number of pages it could get spammy. Second, to my knowledge the toolserver
> and
stats.grok.se sites are not run off any kind of live data; they're
> reliant on database dumps. We'd either be plugging into third-party services
> of unknown viability or need to make a request to analytics for them to make
> this kind of data more internally available and transparent, which could be
> a pile of work.
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