Hello, Does the English Wikipedia currently track pageviews?

I'm doing a study looking at the page ratings, and how that is (or isn't) affected by a reader's understanding of the discussion process that went on behind the scenes. We'd really like to be able to know if the rater saw the talk page before they rated the article. As secondary goals, we'd like to see if they edited the article and/or talk page, and as a tertiary goal, we'd like to measure how familiar they are with Wikipedia and talk pages in general (e. g. do they even know Talk pages exist, are they a frequent discussant on them, etc.). If it is possible to get the information about ratings and pageviews (esp. common fields/links between them), can somebody guide me on how to? If the data is currently not collected but there is a way to start doing so (i. e. no philosophical objection or significant tech/performance issue b/c of the caching layers), who's the right person to work with for that?

Thanks!

Grace and peace, Ben

-- W. Ben Towne wbt+wiki@cs.cmu.edu Computation, Organizations, & Society http://www.cos.cs.cmu.edu/ Carnegie Mellon University

Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2011 21:51:56 -0700 From: Dario Taraborellidtaraborelli@wikimedia.org Subject: [Wiki-research-l] New data dumps available To: Research into Wikimedia content and communities wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org Message-ID:461E101F-0005-443C-96F8-7382E8463BD4@wikimedia.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252"

As part of its product development program, the Wikimedia Foundation's Tech Department will be releasing regular data dumps for all the features that are currently being implemented. The first weekly dumps from the Article Feedback Tool ? an experimental feature to engage readers to interact with Wikipedia's contents via a quality rating system [1] ? are available since this afternoon [2]. The latest datasets contain raw ratings data collected each week from a random sample of 100K articles of the English Wikipedia. More datasets will be released in the coming weeks as we deploy new features.

Over the summer a new series of datasets produced by the participants in the Wikimedia Summer of Research [3] will be released and an open data repository will be announced to host and permanently identify these datasets. Further details on this program and WMF's open data policy will follow on the Foundation's blog and on this list.

Dario

[1]http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Article_feedback [2]http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Article_feedback/Data [3]http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Wikimedia_Summer_of_Research_2011

-- Dario Taraborelli, PhD Senior Research Analyst Wikimedia Foundation

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