New subject: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Fwd: Eurostat is looking into Wikimedia pageviews

11 Oct 2015

FYI (+ possibly handy links).

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Oggetto: Re: [Analytics] Using wikimedia pagehits and other data for 
creating statistics on exposure to culture
Data: Sun, 11 Oct 2015 12:21:48 +0200

Dear Albrecht,
as an avid Eurostat consumer let me congratulate you for a very
interesting project, which will be of great interest not only to the
general population but also to direct consumers of Eurostat such as
* Europeana,
* the European Commission (for policy implications),
* EU governments (some of which supported Wiki Loves Monuments, e.g. for
Pompei),
* the Council of Europe (for their support for Wiki Loves Monuments).

Dan already pointed out what will be the best route for your to pursue
in the future, but let me point out what data and tools people have
needed and made available so far:
* for recent raw data,
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Analytics/Data/Pagecounts-all-sites ;
* global usage of World Heritage Sites images: 190k usages for 24k
images (via
http://tools.wmflabs.org/glamtools/glamorous.php?doit=1&category=World+…

);
* pageviews in a wiki (e.g. English Wikipedia) for all articles
classified as world heritage sites on Wikidata: says ~3 M/month for ~800
articles (via WDQ claim[1435:9259] in Listeria > PagePile > TreeViews
https://tools.wmflabs.org/glamtools/treeviews/?q=%7B%22pagepile%22%3A%22962…

);
* for Europeana, https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Europeana/Stats ;
* for WLM images accesses in all languages, e.g.
http://tools.wmflabs.org/glamtools/baglama2/#gid=60&month=201508 ;
* for multilingual pageviews of an individual topic, e.g.
https://tools.wmflabs.org/hay/langviews/index.php?url=http://en.wikipedia.o…

.

Federico

Albrecht.Wirthmann(a)ec.europa.eu, 06/10/2015 11:35:
...
  Dear Wikimedia Analytics team,
 My name is Albrecht Wirthmann. I am working in a task team Big Data at
 Eurostat. This is the European statistical office, which makes part of
 the European Commission. The task team is exploring new data sources
 for their feasibility of producing official statistics. We have been
 looking at various internet data sources including Wikimedia. The idea
 that we are currently following up is identifying Wikipedia pages in
 English that are referring to World Heritage sites and to analyse the
 number and development of page views of those pages as an indicator of
 exposure to culture. For this purpose we downloaded the page views files
 from _http://dumps.wikimedia.org/other/pagecounts-ez/_. The data should
 be later on included in a pocket book showing statistics on culture in
 the European Union.
 I am contacting you to make you aware of our intentions, to ask if there
 would be any concerns related to our project and to possibly have a chat
 with you and your team to ask some technical questions and about the
 possibility of getting some additional data. We would be interested in
 page hits by country in order to be more specific on the statistics that
 we would compile.
 We would be very glad about a positive reply and remain at your disposal,
 Kind regards,
 Albrecht Wirthmann
 TF Big Data
 Eurostat
 BECH building
 5, rue Alphonse Weicker
 L 2721 Luxembourg 