that's correct, we have no reader time-on-site data, partly because of technical reasons, partly because this fell in a gray zone of our privacy policy. The new privacy policy should give us a framework to handle this data.

On Aug 22, 2013, at 11:35 AM, Aaron Halfaker <aaron.halfaker@gmail.com> wrote:

Good question.  Not that I know of.  

The closest thing that I know about is this work: 

Robert West, Ingmar Weber, and Carlos Castillo. 2012. Drawing a data-driven portrait of Wikipedia editors. WikiSym '12. ACM, New York, NY, USA, , Article 3 , 10 pages. DOI: 10.1145/2462932.2462937
http://www.wikisym.org/ws2012/p1wikisym2012.pdf

It was done using a browser toolbar to correlate Wikipedian editing patterns with other browsing behavior. 


On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 1:31 PM, Samuel Klein <meta.sj@gmail.com> wrote:
Wonderful.  Is there anything similar for reader sessions?

On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 2:21 PM, Aaron Halfaker
<aaron.halfaker@gmail.com> wrote:
> It turns out that I have docs, code and research for you.
>
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Metrics/edit_sessions
>
> Using Edit Session to Measure Participation in Wikipedia
> R. Stuart Geiger & Aaron Halfaker. (2013). CSCW (pp. 861-870)
> DOI:10.1145/2441776.2441873.
>
> http://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~halfak/publications/Using_Edit_Sessions_to_Measure_Participation_in_Wikipedia/geiger13using-preprint.pdf
>
> On Aug 22, 2013 12:55 PM, "Samuel Klein" <meta.sj@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I was wondering this also. Are there any good measures of session duration
>> or dwell time on a single page?
>>
>> Sam
>>
>> On Aug 22, 2013 1:45 PM, "Stella Yu" <stellayu@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> We are aware that Wikipedia does not track user sessions. There may be
>>> survey/poll companies that have surveyed people about their usage and their
>>> time spent on Wikipedia.
>>>
>>> Curious, where are there reports that can shed some light on this?
>>>
>>> Thank you!
>>>
>>>
>>> All the best,
>>>
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