Hi All,
I'm writing in hope of starting a conversation about Metrics gathering for
institutions. As a WiR that does a lot of outreach I'm regularly asked what
Metrics are available for them to track their projects. I think having a
formal page on WP of possible metrics/tools for institutions would be a
sure way to get institutions more engaged.
While the work of the Analytics Team is always on the periphery I've found
that there are not many tools or project documentation for analytics
related to institutional engagement, editing, and article traffic for
institutions with a lot of articles "related" to their collections on
Wikipedia that they may be adding to.
I'm going to list what I already use/know about to see if anyone has any
other suggestions or thoughts on this.
WikiMetrics:
https://metrics.wmflabs.org/ - I use this after all
edit-a-thon on the day after, and then usually about a month after.
External links search:
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALinkSearch&target=…
I recommend getting this number before institutional editing occurs,
and
also noticing 'trends' in the 'genre' of articles referencing the
institutional resource websites, and then in time increments afterwards.
Google Analytics- to find article traffic to their digitized collections or
other research that linked to from Wikipedia. IE the Met's successful
Watson Library project:
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Case_studies/Thomas_J._Watson_Libr…
<https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Case_studies/Thomas_J._Watson_Library_at_the_MMA,_New_York>
Project Statistics: Article Quality 'bot' tables, and adding
"WikiProject"
tags to the talk pages of articles.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:WP_1.0_bot/Tables/Project/Statistics
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:WP_1.0_bot/Tables/Project/Statistics>
List articles desired, create a spreadsheet with these article names and
the number of visitors in the last 30 days using the "Page View Statistics"
graph in "View History." Once that spreadsheet is made, I recommend working
on high-impact articles as well as adding lower-impact or lesser-seen
articles as interwiki links to more 'high impact' articles. I would also
tell them to update this list.
Do you have any other tools you like to use or 'best practices?' This
conversation can happen here or we can move it to WP if that makes more
sense to people.
Looking forward to your thoughts!
Thanks!
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Dorothy Howard
Metropolitan New York Library Council (METRO)
212.228.2320 x127
<http://metro.org/>