Thanks James - that's brilliant, I didn't know you could get to the stats direct from Wikipedia. I am clearly a noob at the whole thing :-)
On another noob thought - I know programmatically you can get data from Wikipedia (dbpedia is best, right? or no?) - but has anyone got a live example where they've updated the wikipedia page and are then pulling that data in to their institution pages so as not to duplicate effort in this regard..?
cheers
Mike
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On 15 Jan 2013, at 11:39, James Morley <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Yeah, and another handy thing is if you're on any Wikipedia page got
> to 'View History' tab (top-right) and on the line near the top
> starting 'External tools' you'll see a link to 'Page view statistics'.
>
> I used to do this for exactly the same reason that you mention - we'd
> see spikes of incoming Wikipedia referrals and it was always good to
> see why.
>
> For example http://stats.grok.se/en/latest/Amorphophallus_titanum will
> fluctuate wildly depending on whether it was in the news, flowering
> somewhere in the world. Even on quiet days it ticks along at about 500
> page views, compared with (dare I say it the much nicer)
> http://www.kew.org/plants-fungi/Amorphophallus-titanum.htm which gets
> about 30 page views per day.
>
> James
>
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 11:23 AM, Mike Ellis <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> Hi all
>>
>> You probably all knew this already - but I just stumbled across this tool for displaying Wikipedia article page views:
>>
>> http://stats.grok.se/
>>
>> As I consistently sit in meetings suggesting people might want to consider the benefits of putting stuff on Wikipedia rather than on their own museum sites I've been needing something like this to help with my wild conjectures about traffic / social impact / etc.
>>
>> I'd be fascinated to see how traffic compares (well, I know the answer really but would like to know some more detail..) between museum sites and the related Wikipedia page.
>>
>> So http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/objects/space_technology/1976-106.aspx vs http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_10
>>
>> This: http://stats.grok.se/en/latest90/Apollo_10 suggests 250-500 page views per day for that particular Wikipedia article. Wonder what SciM gets - will drop them a line maybe and find out. I can feel a dissertation coming on..
>>
>> Anyway - may be of use. Data is also available as json so anyone cleverer than me could probably do something cunning with it…
>>
>> cheers
>>
>> Mike
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