what Greg said, Common Crawl is an excellent data source to answer these questions, see:
http://blog.commoncrawl.org/2015/04/announcing-the-common-crawl-index/ http://blog.commoncrawl.org/2015/02/wikireverse-visualizing-reverse-links-with-open-data/ for aggregate stats about referrals to individual articles by traffic and aggregated at domain level you mail also be interested in this dataset: http://figshare.com/articles/Wikipedia_Clickstream/1305770 > On Dec 2, 2015, at 8:06 AM, Greg Lindahl <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 01, 2015 at 07:50:23PM +0100, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote: >> Edison Nica, 29/11/2015 16:56: >>> how many non-wikipedia pages point to a certain wikipedia page >> >> I guess the only way we have to know this (other than grepping >> request logs for referrers, which would be quite a nightmare) is to >> access the Google Webmaster account for wikipedia.org (to which a >> couple employees had access, IIRC). > > There are a couple of other ways to figure out inlinks: > > * Common Crawl > * Commercial SEO services like Moz or Ahrefs > > In the medium term the Internet Archive is going to be generating this > kind of link data as part of the Wayback Machine search engine effort. > > And finally, Edison, counting the number of inlinks without > considering their rank or popularity will probably leave you > vulnerable to people orchestrating googlebombs. And you might want to > also know the anchortext, that's extremely valuable for search > indexing. > > -- greg > > > > _______________________________________________ > Analytics mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics Dario Taraborelli Head of Research, Wikimedia Foundation wikimediafoundation.org • nitens.org • @readermeter _______________________________________________ Analytics mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics
