This is awesome. Thank you!
Dr Heather Ford
University Academic Fellow
School of Media and Communications <http://media.leeds.ac.uk/>, The
University of Leeds
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On 18 November 2015 at 16:02, Dario Taraborelli <dtaraborelli(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
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From: Dan Andreescu <dandreescu(a)wikimedia.org>
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Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2015 08:43:10 -0500
Subject: Pageview API
Dear Data Enthusiasts,
In collaboration with the Services team, the analytics team wishes to
announce a public Pageview API
<https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/?doc#!/Pageviews_data/get_metrics_pageviews_per_article_project_access_agent_article_granularity_start_end>.
For an example of what kind of UIs someone could build with it, check out
this excellent demo <http://analytics.wmflabs.org/demo/pageview-api>
(code)
<https://gist.github.com/marcelrf/49738d14116fd547fe6d#file-article-comparison-html>
.
The API can tell you how many times a wiki article or project is viewed
over a certain period. You can break that down by views from web crawlers
or humans, and by desktop, mobile site, or mobile app. And you can find
the 1000 most viewed articles
<https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/metrics/pageviews/top/es.wikipedia/all-access/2015/11/11>
on any project, on any given day or month that we have data for. We
currently have data back through October and we will be able to go back to
May 2015 when the loading jobs are all done. For more information, take a
look at the user docs
<https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Analytics/AQS/Pageview_API>.
After many requests from the community, we were really happy to finally
make this our top priority and get it done. Huge thanks to Gabriel, Marko,
Petr, and Eric from Services, Alexandros and all of Ops really, Henrik for
maintaining stats.grok, and, of course, the many community members who have
been so patient with us all this time.
The Research team’s Article Recommender tool
<http://recommend.wmflabs.org/> already uses the API to rank pages and
determine relative importance. Wiki Education Foundation’s dashboard
<https://dashboard.wikiedu.org/> is going to be using it to count how
many times an article has been viewed since a student edited it. And there
are other grand plans for this data like “article finder”, which will find
low-rated articles with a lot of pageviews; this can be used by editors
looking for high-impact work. Join the fun, we’re happy to help get you
started and listen to your ideas. Also, if you find bugs or want to
suggest improvements, please create a task in Phabricator and tag it with
#Analytics-Backlog
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/analytics-backlog/>.
So what’s next? We can think of too many directions to go into, for
pageview data and Wikimedia project data, in general. We need to work with
you to make a great plan for the next few quarters. Please chime in here
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T112956> with your needs.
Team Analytics
(p.s. this was also posted on analytics-l, wikitech-l, and engineering-l,
but I suck and forgot to cc the research list. My apologies.)
*Dario Taraborelli *Head of Research, Wikimedia Foundation
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