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Publish Intro to Analyzing Wikimedia Traffic
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Landing page and overview covering key concepts, data sources, and access methods for the Traffic data domain. Aligns with and is linked to from the higher-level overview described and tracked in T343146.

Rough outline of doc draft in progress (I'm still figuring out how much of this can just be links to existing resources vs. content I need to create specifically for the research/data analysis context):

  • Prerequisites
  • Essential concepts
    • What is a pageview?
    • Redirects
    • Human vs. automated traffic
  • Research topics in wiki traffic analysis
    • Demography of readers / content consumers
    • Reader behavior
    • Pageview-based prediction models
    • Search engine optimization
    • Link analysis
    • (...)
  • Accessing Wikimedia traffic data
    • Canonical data sources
    • Access methods
  • Quickstarts for common traffic analysis tasks
    • Current events vs. pageviews
    • Link analysis
    • (...)

Event Timeline

TBurmeister changed the task status from Open to In Progress.Mar 7 2024, 5:22 PM
TBurmeister triaged this task as Medium priority.
TBurmeister created this task.
TBurmeister moved this task from Backlog to In progress on the Tech-Docs-Team board.

I ran out of time this fiscal year to be able to publish the expanded version of this page that I had originally envisioned, and I think this work would need to be approached differently, in closer collaboration with the Research team and aligned with their other priorities. For now, the topic is covered by: