Reading that excellent presentation, the thought that struck me was: "If I wanted to subvert the assumption that Wikipedia == en.wiki, linking to http://www.wikipedia.org/ is what I'd do."
A smarter http://www.wikipedia.org/ might guess geo-location and thus local languages. cheers stuart -- ...let us be heard from red core to black sky On Thu, May 7, 2015 at 6:40 AM, Oliver Keyes <oke...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > Cross-posting to research and analytics, too! > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Oliver Keyes <oke...@wikimedia.org> > Date: 6 May 2015 at 13:11 > Subject: Traffic to the portal from Zero providers > To: wikimedia-sea...@lists.wikimedia.org > > > Hey all, > > (Throwing this to the public list, because transparency is Good) > > I recently did a presentation on a traffic analysis to the Wikipedia > "home page" - www.wikipedia.org.[1] > > One of the biggest visualisations, in impact terms, showed that a lot > of portal traffic - far more, proportionately, than traffic to > Wikipedia overall - is coming from India and Brazil.[2] One of the > hypotheses was that this could be Zero traffic. > > I've done a basic analysis of the traffic, looking specifically at the > zero headers,[3] and this hypothesis turns out to be incorrect - > almost no zero traffic is hitting the portal. The traffic we're seeing > from Brazil and India is not zero-based. > > This makes a lot of sense (the reason mobile traffic redirects to the > enwiki home page from the portal is the Zero extension, so presumably > this happens specifically to Zero traffic) but it does mean that our > null hypothesis - that this traffic is down to ISP-level or > device-level design choices and links - is more likely to be correct. > > [1] http://ironholds.org/misc/homepage_presentation.html > [2] http://ironholds.org/misc/homepage_presentation.html#/11 > [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T98076 > > -- > Oliver Keyes > Research Analyst > Wikimedia Foundation > > > -- > Oliver Keyes > Research Analyst > Wikimedia Foundation > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > wiki-researc...@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l _______________________________________________ Analytics mailing list Analytics@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics
