This sounds interesting. Is there also clickstream-adjacent data available from Enterprise? That may fall in the same category, but I don't know how well Enterprise is segregating those uses.
It would be fascinating to understand better! On Thu, Jun 4, 2026 at 11:32 AM Martin Gerlach via Wiki-research-l < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi Kai, > thanks for the suggestion. I can see how this would improve the value of > the clickstream dataset. > I created a task on phabricator with your request (feel free to add > anything that I might have missed): > https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T428136 > Best, > Martin > > On Wed, Jun 3, 2026 at 2:10 PM Kai Zhu via Wiki-research-l < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > I'd like to float a small extension to the Clickstream dataset that I > think > > would make it considerably more useful for studying how AI assistants are > > reshaping traffic to Wikipedia. > > > > Right now the referrer mapping scheme gives an external search engine its > > own value (other-search) but folds everything else into other-external, > or > > into other-empty when the referrer is stripped. That means clickthroughs > > from AI assistants — ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Copilot, Claude, and so > > on — are effectively invisible, mixed in with the rest of the external > web. > > > > My suggestion is to add one more mapped value, say other-ai, populated by > > matching referrers against a maintained list of AI-assistant / LLM > product > > domains. The payoff is that the Clickstream becomes a longitudinal > > instrument for a question the community is already wrestling with: how > much > > traffic AI intermediaries actually send back to Wikipedia, and how that's > > trending over time. > > > > Thanks for considering it, > > Kai Zhu > > Bocconi University > > _______________________________________________ > > Wiki-research-l mailing list -- [email protected] > > To unsubscribe send an email to > [email protected] > > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
