Re: [Analytics] Backlinks TO Wikipedia

2016-01-11 Thread Erik Bernhardson
On Sun, Jan 10, 2016 at 8:05 AM, Edison Nica wrote: > Dario Taraborelli writes: > > > > > 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

Re: [Analytics] Backlinks TO Wikipedia

2016-01-10 Thread Edison Nica
Dario Taraborelli writes: > > 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/ > > fo

Re: [Analytics] Backlinks TO Wikipedia

2015-12-02 Thread Dario Taraborelli
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 individ

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] Backlinks TO Wikipedia

2015-12-01 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
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 co

Re: [Analytics] Backlinks TO Wikipedia

2015-12-01 Thread Oliver Keyes
We don't, to my knowledge. For search-related ideas and queries I'd recommend checking out the Discovery team's mailing list; that's what they tend to work on. FWIW, prefacing a statement with "no offence" normally does little beyond indicating that the speaker knew it would be offensive and wante

[Analytics] Backlinks TO Wikipedia

2015-12-01 Thread Edison Nica
Hi, I am interested to know if wikipedia makes public how many backlinks each page gets. I am working on a search for wikipedia, and I as you would expect, it sucks. So I went and tested same searches directly on wikipedia, and no offence, they suck even more. So I went on Google, and perform