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Given that Google is the single largest contributor of traffic to all Wikimedia projects, it seems that the simple act of signing up to Google Webmaster Tools would provide a vast amount of data that Google is already collecting on the projects for free. This data is extremely interesting, and includes: - The exact phrases used in external links to your site - The top search queries used to access your site, in the following csv format: - This includes the position of your site in the results for that query - The PageRank of all of your pages; the distribution of the PageRank of all of your pages; your page with the highest PageRank - The number of people who have subscribed to the rss feeds on your site using Google products that allow this. - Something akin to the inverse document frequency of the words in your site and the words used in external links to your site, as computed by GoogleBot How this would work: 1. A Wikimedia representative creates a Google account for the Foundation 2. Each language version of each project is added. This may be a one time labor intensive process, or it might be more straightforward. I have no way of testing this right now. 3. Click the "Download data for all sites" button. 4. Profit ;) It seems that releasing this data does not violate the Foundation privacy policy. The search query data is collected under an agreement between the user and Google, before they ever enter the domain of a Foundation project. That point aside, there are no unique identifiers that link one user to a set of queries, only a relationship between a set of queries and a country. There is no specific information on when a query was performed. The community will no doubt come up with interesting visualizations and applications of this data. Articles that are receiving a relatively high amount of traffic but are of a relatively low level of quality can be targeted for improvement, for example. I would volunteer to automate as much of this as possible, including downloading the data at certain intervals. Please discuss! :) /Brian