Hi Kai!
Thanks for this suggestion — I'll put it on the list of improvements to this dataset, and hopefully be able to put it into production in the next month or two. In the meantime, the example python notebook https://public-paws.wmcloud.org/67457802/private_pageview_data_access.ipynb I linked above has a subsection entitled "Example of joining page_ids and titles to wikidata QID" that shows how you can retrieve a set of QIDs manually for a given page ID or title. Hope this helps get you started!
Thanks again, Hal
On Sun, Jun 25, 2023 at 4:30 PM Kai Zhu kaizhublcu@gmail.com wrote:
Great dataset! This is amazing. I have no doubt that this will enable a lot of new research endeavors.
If I may have a suggestion: is it possible to also have wikidata id for each row? That way we can more conveniently match the same concepts across languages at large scale...
Best, Kai Zhu Assistant Professor at Bocconi University
On Wed, Jun 21, 2023 at 12:51 PM Hal Triedman htriedman@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hello world!
My name is Hal Triedman, and I’m a senior privacy engineer at WMF. I work to make data that WMF releases about reading, editing, and other on-wiki behavior safer, more granular, and more accessible to the world using differential privacy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differential_privacy.
Today I’m reaching out to share that WMF has released almost 8 years
(from
1 July 2015 to present) of privatized pageview data <
https://diff.wikimedia.org/2023/06/21/new-dataset-uncovers-wikipedia-browsin...
,
partitioned by country, project, and page. This data is significantly
more
granular than other datasets we release, and should help researchers to disambiguate both long- and short-term trends within languages on a country-by-country basis — several https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T207171 long-standing requests https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T267283 from Wikimedia communities.
Due to various technical factors, there are three distinct datasets:
1 July 2015 – 8 Feb 2017 <
https://analytics.wikimedia.org/published/datasets/country_project_page_hist...
/ README <
https://analytics.wikimedia.org/published/datasets/country_project_page_hist...
(publishing threshold [1]: 3,500 pageviews)
9 Feb 2017 – 5 Feb 2023 <
https://analytics.wikimedia.org/published/datasets/country_project_page_hist...
/ README <
https://analytics.wikimedia.org/published/datasets/country_project_page_hist...
(publishing threshold: 450 pageviews)
6 Feb 2023 – present < https://analytics.wikimedia.org/published/datasets/country_project_page/
/ README <
https://analytics.wikimedia.org/published/datasets/country_project_page/00_R...
(publishing threshold: 90 pageviews)
API access to this data should be coming in the next few months. In the interim, I’ve built an example python notebook <
https://public-paws.wmcloud.org/67457802/private_pageview_data_access.ipynb
illustrating how one might access the data in its current csv format, as well as several different kinds of simple analyses that can be done with it.
I also want to invite the research community to join me for a brief demo
of
this project at the July Research Showcase https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Showcase. In the meantime, please feel free to reach out with any questions on the project talk page https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Differential_privacy.
For more information about WMF’s work on differential privacy more generally, see the differential privacy homepage on meta https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Differential_privacy. And in the
future,
look for more announcements of privatized datasets on editor behavior, on-wiki search, centralnotice impressions and clicks, and more.
Best,
Hal
[1] “Publishing threshold” is the minimum value of a row in the dataset
in
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