Cool. Good idea. /me flags for reading this weekend.
On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 10:54 AM, Dario Taraborelli <
dtaraborelli(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
I’ve been discussing with the folks at CrossRef (the
largest registry of
Digital Object Identifiers, think of it as the ICANN of science) how to
accurately measure the impact of traffic driven from Wikipedia/Wikimedia to
scholarly resources.
While digging into their data, we realized that since Wikimedia started
the HTTPS switchover and an increasing portion of inbound traffic happens
over SSL, Wikimedia sites may have stopped advertising themselves as
sources of referred traffic to external sites. While this is a literal
implication of HTTPS, it means that Wikimedia's impact on traffic directed
to other sites is becoming largely invisible and Wikimedia might be turning
into a large source of dark traffic.
I wrote a proposal reviewing the CrossRef use case and discussing how
other top web properties deal with this issue by adopting a so-called
"Referrer Policy”:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Wikimedia_referrer_policy
Feedback is welcome on the talk page:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research_talk:Wikimedia_referrer_policy
Dario
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