Over the weekend, I tried a few voice queries with Cortana and noticed sometimes it sources things from Wikipedia in the Windows OS native component. And when I said "Wikipedia goldfish" it opened a browser to Bing with the search query.
Ward, I agree that an academic group or perhaps the Foundation might be in a position to ask or ascertain some sort of information. That said, I believe the information is pretty carefully guarded. I've in general wished to have a sense of aggregate changes (e.g., fluctuation of percentage of impressions involving Wikimedia content and the raw delta of Wikimedia-involved impressions) - for understanding impact, like you mention - even if the data had to be time delayed.
Claudia, I was curious, would you explain a bit more on editors wanting to know? Is it about broad reach numbers as Ward mentioned, or something else?
-Adam
On Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 2:12 AM, koltzenburg@w4w.net wrote:
Ward, I think that quite a few editors would like to know, indeed,
best, Claudia
---------- Original Message ----------- From:Ward Cunningham ward@c2.com To:Research into Wikimedia content and communities wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org Cc:stella@stellaresults.com Sent:Sun, 13 Aug 2017 10:19:58 -0700 Subject:Re: [Wiki-research-l] What percentage of digital assistants cite Wikipedia?
On Aug 11, 2017, at 4:02 PM, Stella Yu
stella@stellaresults.com wrote:
Which of the digital assistants (Alexa, Siri, Google
Assistant,
Cortana) source/cite Wikipedia?
I would assume that each of these device operators would have detailed analytics regarding the degree that they reuse Wikimedia content. Editors might be inspired to know the extension of reach thus provided. I wonder if the foundation, or some academic institution, might be a suitable intermediary to work with the operators to make this information generally available so as to encourage continued volunteer participation.
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