On 29 May 2010 01:48, Brian J Mingus <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 6:51 PM, Brian <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> >> 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> >> >> > Liam, > > I've written you a quick bot that computes the correlation coefficient > between quality and pageviews for random samples of featured and random > articles in April. It requires Python and SciPy. You can find it here: > > > http://grey.colorado.edu/mingus/index.php/Wikipedia_Quality_Pageviews_Correlation_Coefficient > > I suggest that you cross validate the result. In other words, run the > script several times and then average the results. It's rather slow, owing > to the slowness of Wikimedia properties. I personally didn't run it for more > than 10 featured and 10 random articles, but I set those numbers to 2000 for > you. It will take hours to run. > > Cheers, > Brian > Wow, I'll give that a spin when I've next got consistent access to the net (I think that the hotel lobby is not the best place for that :-) ) Thanks, -Liam wittylama.com/blog Peace, love & metadata
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