În data de 25 aprilie 2012, 18:50, emijrp <emi...@gmail.com> a scris: > [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Emijrp/External_Links_Ranking
Thanks for that, it's pretty interesting (especially the sql file)! În data de 25 aprilie 2012, 19:47, Lars Aronsson <l...@aronsson.se> a scris: > On 04/25/2012 04:21 PM, Strainu wrote: >> >> Are there any statistics about the number of visitors that go from >> Wikipedia to different websites linked with external links? We've >> recently seen some people adding external links (as references) to >> articles from different newspapers and I was wondering if it's really >> worth it for the newspaper to have someone add such links? > > > When a reader is looking at a Wikipedia article, and clicks one > of the external links, there is (as far as I know) no traffic that > goes to the Wikimedia servers to indicate this. The only thing > that happens is that the web browser makes a request to the > external site. But in that request, the address of the Wikipedia > article is given as a "referer". You would have to ask each > external site how much traffic they receive with Wikipedia as > a referer. (Facebook and some other websites embed external links > in a tracker syntax, that makes a call back to their own site > before redirecting the browser to the external site. This makes > it possible for them to know how external links are followed. > But I think most people are happy that WMF refrains from this.) One could also imagine an AJAX solution to this, I believe. But yes, except for my present curiosity, I also prefer not being tracked. > > I'm running runeberg.org, which happens to be the external > website with more links from the Swedish Wikipedia than any > other. On a typical day, yesterday April 24, my site had 42,000 > page views (robot crawlers not included) from 7800 different IP > addresses, and 902 of them had Wikipedia as a referer, namely > 732 *different* Wikipedia pages. > > Here's one example, at 9:26 AM, one iPhone user got from > http://sv.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smedjebackens_Valsverks_AB > (an article about a steelwork) to > http://runeberg.org/steelswe/0114.html > (page 46 of the book "Iron and Steel in Sweden" from 1920). > That book was scanned in 2004, the article created in 2005, > and the link was added to Wikipedia in 2006. > > Was this "worth it"? I certainly didn't make any money from it, > and I didn't pay the people who put all those links in Wikipedia. > I think it would be very hard to do this on a commercial basis. > It takes time to add links to Wikipedia, not just the 30 seconds > to edit the page, but perhaps 30 minutes to find the relevant > article and the relevant webpage to link to. Can you speed up > that process, without getting questions about link spamming? > That's more or less how I see it, too. But still, there are such users [1]. I'm estimating that about 50% of her links remain after cleanup. I don't want to be mean, but she will probably be blocked sooner or later for those activities (because most user still see this as linkspam). So it must be worth *something* to the newspaper, right? Strainu [1] https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contribu%C8%9Bii/Ioana1005 _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
