Hi Ben,
If you are interested in "pageviews", the best available public resource is:
[http://dumps.wikimedia.org/other/pagecounts-raw/]
which provides an aggregate count of views for a page, by hour (and I
have a parser to store all this to a MySQLDB if it interests you).
However, this does not map views to a particular identifier (username or
IP address) or an exacting time-stamp, as you seem to desire. This might
be tough because:
* The WMF treats the IP addresses of registered editors as confidential
information. IP address is used for "unregistered" editing. Regardless,
no data pertaining to simple access is available in a public-facing
fashion to my knowledge (and if it were, it would be trivial to
determine the IP addresses of registered editors)
* Assuming you were allowed to view it, even for an hour's time, the
apache-like log of en:wp access would be LARGE. Consider that the terse
and aggregate format they make available is already on the order of
~80MB/hour zipped.
I am not terribly familiar with the article ratings tool and its
operation, but I assume it would incur the same privacy concerns.
Ratings data does seem to be accessible via the API:
[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php]
But there are no fields describing the user/IP that left that feedback.
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Of course, I speak only of publicly available data. If you are able to
convince the administration to collect and confidentially share this
data, it would become more feasible (although you'd be trying to trace
user click-paths from a -ton- of data).
Its not my intention to discourage you, but have you thought about
looking at this in a more aggregate fashion (i.e., average daily
talk-page views vs. article quality rating)? -AW
On 02/07/2012 03:03 PM, W. Ben Towne wrote:
Hello,
Does the English Wikipedia currently track pageviews?
I'm doing a study looking at the page ratings, and how that is (or
isn't) affected by a reader's understanding of the discussion process
that went on behind the scenes. We'd really like to be able to know if
the rater saw the talk page before they rated the article. As secondary
goals, we'd like to see if they edited the article and/or talk page, and
as a tertiary goal, we'd like to measure how familiar they are with
Wikipedia and talk pages in general (e. g. do they even know Talk pages
exist, are they a frequent discussant on them, etc.).
If it is possible to get the information about ratings and pageviews
(esp. common fields/links between them), can somebody guide me on how to?
If the data is currently not collected but there is a way to start doing
so (i. e. no philosophical objection or significant tech/performance
issue b/c of the caching layers), who's the right person to work with
for that?
Thanks!
Grace and peace,
Ben
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Andrew G. West, Doctoral Student
Dept. of Computer and Information Science
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia PA
Email: [last name] + and @cis.upenn.edu
Website: http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~westand
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