Re: [Analytics] Backlinks TO Wikipedia

2015-12-02 Thread Greg Lindahl
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

Re: [Analytics] An example of pageviews usage

2015-11-13 Thread Greg Lindahl
On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 01:45:57PM -0800, Erik Bernhardson wrote: > Have you put any thought into normalizing page view data? I haven't studied it, but I think you've got a good start: normalizing them by the # of pageviews of the community. So if someone types an entire French phrase into the En

[Analytics] An example of pageviews usage

2015-11-13 Thread Greg Lindahl
I've been working on book search at the Internet Archive, and I've been using Wikipedia article titles and redirects as entities and synonyms. I wanted to build autocomplete for this gizmo, so I downloaded 7 days of pageviews for the en Wikipedia, and wrote a tiny script to sum them up. It worked g