Search engine page ranks and click-through might be one way of measuring
the social impact of Wikimedia, although Google’s ranking formula is secret and
I don’t know if Wikimedia does click-through tracking. You might try asking
Google or the Wikimedia technical folks for ways to measure impact. I’m sure
that Google does a lot of web analytics work.
Hi,
I
had a chance to chat with some one today who is involved in the public sector
about the potential importance of Wikimedia related projects to developing
dialog, resources related to, and having a larger societal impact on women as it
pertains to women's related coverage on Wikimedia related projects. Page
views are one way to measure, and exposure for women's topics on the front page
of Wikipedia through Featured Article, Did You Know, Featured Picture and In The
News is certainly valuable in terms of total page views on the day for that
content but the value is not very clear from a return on investment point of
view. The same can even be said about taking an article from Stub to C
class. There is some inherent value in doing this, but institutionally,
getting support for it can be problematic unless you can begin to figure out a
tangible way of assessing the value that can justify institutional resources
into a project that is nominally for a greater good of promoting a topic such as
women's health, women's sport, women's rights by just improving the ease of
access to reliably sourced, neutral materials that adequately cover these
topics.
Has anyone done any research on or developed a framework work
doing research to measure the impact of Wikipedia and its projects on thought
formation and how to measure the influence of Wikipedia in our society?
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