Good Morning Ms. Howard,
We at PureHistory are an online social search engine and media network
focusing on American History and around the World. I have been trying to
reach someone in your company for over a year and partner with Wikipedia
in focusing on history. I see your background is history so I would like
to talk with you about your company in promoting Wikipedia on our site, in
dealing with history. You can reach me at the contact information below,
thank you and have a great day.
Lawrence E. Walker
President/CEO
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> 1. Analytics for Institutional Engagement (Dorothy Howard)
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> Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2014 11:55:52 -0400
> From: Dorothy Howard <dhoward(a)metro.org>
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> Subject: [GLAM] Analytics for Institutional Engagement
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> Hi All,
>
> I'm writing in hope of starting a conversation about Metrics gathering for
> institutions. As a WiR that does a lot of outreach I'm regularly asked
> what
> Metrics are available for them to track their projects. I think having a
> formal page on WP of possible metrics/tools for institutions would be a
> sure way to get institutions more engaged.
>
>
> While the work of the Analytics Team is always on the periphery I've found
> that there are not many tools or project documentation for analytics
> related to institutional engagement, editing, and article traffic for
> institutions with a lot of articles "related" to their collections on
> Wikipedia that they may be adding to.
>
>
> I'm going to list what I already use/know about to see if anyone has any
> other suggestions or thoughts on this.
>
>
> WikiMetrics:
https://metrics.wmflabs.org/ - I use this after all
> edit-a-thon on the day after, and then usually about a month after.
>
>
> External links search:
>
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALinkSearch&target=…
> I recommend getting this number before institutional editing occurs,
> and
> also noticing 'trends' in the 'genre' of articles referencing the
> institutional resource websites, and then in time increments afterwards.
>
>
> Google Analytics- to find article traffic to their digitized collections
> or
> other research that linked to from Wikipedia. IE the Met's successful
> Watson Library project:
>
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Case_studies/Thomas_J._Watson_Libr…
>
>
>
<https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Case_studies/Thomas_J._Watson_Library_at_the_MMA,_New_York>
>
> Project Statistics: Article Quality 'bot' tables, and adding
"WikiProject"
> tags to the talk pages of articles.
>
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:WP_1.0_bot/Tables/Project/Statistics
>
>
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:WP_1.0_bot/Tables/Project/Statistics>
>
> List articles desired, create a spreadsheet with these article names and
> the number of visitors in the last 30 days using the "Page View
> Statistics"
> graph in "View History." Once that spreadsheet is made, I recommend
> working
> on high-impact articles as well as adding lower-impact or lesser-seen
> articles as interwiki links to more 'high impact' articles. I would also
> tell them to update this list.
>
>
> Do you have any other tools you like to use or 'best practices?' This
> conversation can happen here or we can move it to WP if that makes more
> sense to people.
>
>
> Looking forward to your thoughts!
>
>
> Thanks!
>
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> Dorothy Howard
> Metropolitan New York Library Council (METRO)
> 212.228.2320 x127
> <http://metro.org/>
>