Purpose:
As part of the KR "We have created one assumptions map of reuser groups and journeys that guides improvements to access methods and documentation, resulting in more reliable resources." we'd like to get quantitative metrics on what we believe to be current or potential entry points to data access method documentation. This will help us build a baseline of the current state of usage and later be able to directly see the influence of any changes we make
To investigate:
Clicks for:
- Help button on WDQS UI
- Help dropdown on WDQS UI
- Tools button on WDQS UI
- Tools dropdown on WDQS UI
- Data access link in the footer on wikidata.org
- Data access link under Get Involved ("..how you can retrieve and use data from Wikidata") on wikidata.org
- Developers link in the footer on wikidata.org
- Tools on the upper right hand corner on wikidata.org
Pageviews:
- for every tab on Wikidata:Data_access
- for every tab on https://developer.wikimedia.org
- for https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Tools
- for https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:SPARQL_query_service/Wikidata_Query_Help
Unique referrers for the following:
- for every tab on Wikidata:Data_access
- for every tab on https://developer.wikimedia.org
- Data dumps download (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Database_download)
- Latest downloads page (https://dumps.wikimedia.org/wikidatawiki/latest/)
- Entity downloads page (https://dumps.wikimedia.org/wikidatawiki/entities/)
- Action API main docs (https://www.wikidata.org/w/api.php)
- Action API sandbox (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ApiSandbox)
- Swagger docs for REST (https://doc.wikimedia.org/Wikibase/master/js/rest-api/)
- Data model page (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Data_model)
Deadline:
17.7.2026
Output:
- Documentation (suggest a sheet) where we have for each required page / data point whether there is a table where we can access this, the table name, and if not whether we want to request tracking / follow up ticket ID for this.
- Completed linked follow up ticket with full scope / detail for providing reporting dashboard for these numbers. Please note: this is to support Ifrah and Elisha for contextualising their work, rather than a specific success metric.