Great Project! Intresting data! Stay safe whatever you do, Samuel
On Mon, 23 Mar 2020 at 19:24, Jonathan Morgan <jmor...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > The WMF Research team has published a new pageview report of inbound > traffic coming from Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Reddit.[1] > > The report contains a list of all articles that received at least 500 > views from one or more of these platforms (i.e. someone clicked a link on > Twitter that sent them directly to a Wikipedia article). The report is > available on-wiki and will be updated daily at around 14:00 UTC with > traffic counts from the previous calendar day. > > We believe this report provides editors with a valuable new information > source. Daily inbound social media traffic stats can help editors monitor > edits to articles that are going viral on social media sites and/or are > being linked to by the social media platform itself in order to fact-check > disinformation and other controversial content[2][3]. > > The social media traffic report also contains additional public article > metadata that may be useful in the context of monitoring articles that are > receiving unexpected attention from social media sites, such as... > > - the total number of pageviews (from all sources) that article > received in the same period of time > - the number of pageviews the article received from the same platform > (e.g. Facebook) the previous day (two days ago) > - the number of editors who have the page on their watchlist > - the number of editors who have watchlisted the page AND recently > visited it > > We want your feedback! We have some ideas of our own for how to improve > the report, but we want to hear yours! If you have feature suggestions, > please add them here.[4] We intend to maintain this daily report for at > least the next two months. If we receive feedback that the report is > useful, we are considering making it available indefinitely. > > If you have other questions about the report, please first check out our > (still growing) FAQ [5]. All questions, comments, concerns, ideas, etc. are > welcome on the project talkpage on Meta.[4] > > 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:HostBot/Social_media_traffic_report > 2. > https://www.engadget.com/2018/03/15/wikipedia-unaware-would-be-youtube-fact-checker/ > 3. > https://mashable.com/2017/10/05/facebook-wikipedia-context-articles-news-feed/ > 4. > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research_talk:Social_media_traffic_report_pilot > 5. > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Social_media_traffic_report_pilot/About > > Cheers, > Jonathan > > -- > Jonathan T. Morgan > Senior Design Researcher > Wikimedia Foundation > User:Jmorgan (WMF) <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jmorgan_(WMF)> > (Uses He/Him) > > *Please note that I do not expect a response from you on evenings or > weekends* > _______________________________________________ > Analytics mailing list > analyt...@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics > -- Thanks, Samuel _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
