Agreed! That's one of the changes I'd really
like to push ahead with,
although we're going to do some more in-depth data collection before
any redesign :).
On 6 May 2015 at 20:27, Stuart A. Yeates <syeates(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Reading that excellent presentation, the thought
that struck me was:
"If I wanted to subvert the assumption that Wikipedia == en.wiki,
linking to
http://www.wikipedia.org/ is what I'd do."
A smarter
http://www.wikipedia.org/ might guess geo-location and thus
local languages.
cheers
stuart
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On Thu, May 7, 2015 at 6:40 AM, Oliver Keyes <okeyes(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Cross-posting to research and analytics, too!
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From: Oliver Keyes <okeyes(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: 6 May 2015 at 13:11
Subject: Traffic to the portal from Zero providers
To: wikimedia-search(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Hey all,
(Throwing this to the public list, because transparency is Good)
I recently did a presentation on a traffic analysis to the Wikipedia
"home page" -
www.wikipedia.org.[1]
One of the biggest visualisations, in impact terms, showed that a lot
of portal traffic - far more, proportionately, than traffic to
Wikipedia overall - is coming from India and Brazil.[2] One of the
hypotheses was that this could be Zero traffic.
I've done a basic analysis of the traffic, looking specifically at the
zero headers,[3] and this hypothesis turns out to be incorrect -
almost no zero traffic is hitting the portal. The traffic we're seeing
from Brazil and India is not zero-based.
This makes a lot of sense (the reason mobile traffic redirects to the
enwiki home page from the portal is the Zero extension, so presumably
this happens specifically to Zero traffic) but it does mean that our
null hypothesis - that this traffic is down to ISP-level or
device-level design choices and links - is more likely to be correct.
[1]
http://ironholds.org/misc/homepage_presentation.html
[2]
http://ironholds.org/misc/homepage_presentation.html#/11
[3]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T98076
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