Check out Michael Kummer's paper that looks at a similar topic ("contagion"
in pageviews among linked articles) from an econometrics perspective:
"Spillovers in Networks of User Generated Content – Evidence from 23
Natural Experiments on Wikipedia"
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_i
No, you can't for reasons on privacy. See:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Watching_pages#Privacy
But, I concur with your theory that edits are contagious. I often find that
when I get the notification that a watched page has changed, I go and look
at the page. While I am there, I often
Hello Research,
It it possible to query for the watchers of a page? It does not seem to be in
the API, nor is the "watchers" or "wl_user" table in the Data Base replicas
(where I thought MediaWiki stores it. I imagine this is for privacy reasons,
correct? If so, how would one gain access?
I ha
The December 2013 issue of the Wikimedia Research Newsletter is out:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Newsletter/2013/December
Contents:
1 Cohort of cross-language Wikipedia editors analyzed
2 Attempt to use Wikipedia pageviews to predict election results in
Iran, Germany and the UK
3 In
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