On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 5:31 PM, Liam Wyatt <[email protected]> wrote:
> Does anyone know of any research which demonstrates a correlation between > the quality of an article in Wikipedia and the number of pageviews it > receives? > I'm trying to argue, as part of my work with museums, that if they want to > get people to come to their own website from wikipedia, then instead of > focusing on adding top-level links to the "external links" section, they > should instead focus on adding deep-linked footnotes and encouraging the > improvement of the quality of the article in general. This is on the basis > that "increased quality=increased pageviews=increased clickthroughs". A > win-win situation. > > I have some very nice statistics of pageviews (from stats.grok.se) that > match the clickthrough stats from a museum (from their analytics) that > clearly demonstrate a correlation between increased pageviews and increased > clickthroughs. However, I'm still looking for some scientific data to prove > the link between improved article quality and an increase in the number of > views of that article. > > Can anyone help? > > -Liam An easy way to pull this off looks like this: - Create a list of all the featured articles - Use http://stats.grok.se to count their pageviews - Generate a random list of articles - Check their pageviews - Compute correlation between pageviews / quality You can also do a slightly more detailed analysis by using the Wikipedia Editorial Team's ratings, but caveat emptor, their rating system is not satistifactory as I've shown in a couple of papers. Nonetheless, if you group together Featured/A/B articles and Start/Stub articles into two groups, the result should be solid. - DeHoust, C., Mangalath, P., Mingus., B. (2008). *Improving search in Wikipedia through quality and concept discovery*. Technical Report. PDF<http://grey.colorado.edu/mediawiki/sites/mingus/images/6/68/DeHoustMangalathMingus08.pdf> - Rassbach, L., Mingus., B, Blackford, T. (2007). *Exploring the feasibility of automatically rating online article quality*. Technical Report. PDF<http://grey.colorado.edu/mediawiki/sites/mingus/images/d/d3/RassbachPincockMingus07.pdf>
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