@Alex: that's really awesome. Thanks for providing a stats.grok.se
alternative. Really looking forward to other languages as well, and
maybe throw in Commons in the mix as well?

-- Hay

On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 11:06 AM, Alex Druk <alex.druk@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Magnus,
>
> Only en.wp for now. We will wait and see how popular it is before adding
> other projects.
> You cannot limit data range in csv now, but the size of the response is
> usually < 10 KB.
>
> By the way, many thanks for your great work!
>
> Regards,
> Alex
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 10:53 AM, Magnus Manske
> <magnusmanske@googlemail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Quick question: Does this have en.wp data only, or can I query (as in CSV)
>> other wikipedias/projects? And, can I limit the data range (not really
>> necessary, but less data to transmit)?
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 9:09 AM, Alex Druk <alex.druk@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Burton,
>>>
>>> We just opened a new site www.wikipediatrends.com that show Wikipedia
>>> page view data. Our site is very similar to existing
>>> http://tools.wmflabs.org/wikiviewstats/ and http://stats.grok.se/, but use
>>> slightly different approach to calculating and presenting data as well as
>>> allow comparison of different articles.
>>>
>>> I hope it will serve your purpose. I am ready to discuss integration out
>>> of the list.
>>>
>>> Alex Druk
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 11:40 PM, Burton DeWilde
>>> <burton@harmony-institute.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Dear Toby,
>>>>
>>>> I recently saw your comment on a blog post by Magnus Manske regarding
>>>> the lack of Wikipedia page view data besides the oft-overloaded
>>>> http://stats.grok.se/. I was wondering if there's been any progress at WMF
>>>> on building a more stable, central, and complete source for this data?
>>>>
>>>> I ask because I'm a data scientist at a small research non-profit called
>>>> Harmony Institute, where we study the social impact of media (primarily
>>>> television and film). I'm currently building an interactive web app that
>>>> visualizes social impact on a variety of issues by many documentary films.
>>>> One indicator of interest is "information-seeking behavior," i.e. are
>>>> audiences seeking out information about a film or issue. Besides Google
>>>> search trends, an excellent proxy for this is Wikipedia page views for both
>>>> film pages, e.g. Escape Fire, and issue-related pages, e.g. Health care
>>>> reform.
>>>>
>>>> I'm currently trying to use stats.grok.se to grab raw data in JSON form;
>>>> unfortunately, the site almost always responds with "Server overloaded,
>>>> please throttle your requests," and no amount of throttling seems to
>>>> suffice. I'm aware that there are many TBs of raw data for the downloading,
>>>> but I don't have the resources to handle that much data, nor do I need more
>>>> than the tiniest fraction of it.
>>>>
>>>> I would love to show Wikipedia page view statistics for film pages in
>>>> our app. If you have any updates on progress or suggestions on how I might
>>>> do this, I would be very appreciative.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks very much for your and all of WMF's hard work — I'm a proud donor
>>>> to the cause. :)
>>>>
>>>> Best,
>>>> Burton DeWilde
>>>>
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>>>>
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