**Why** We're trying to dig deeper into some trends to try and understand better why PageView trends are behaving in certain observed ways. Google Search Console has data that might hold clues to this.
**How?** I can get single dumps of an entire year (up to 16 months) and analyze it in a spreadsheet. But what would be more useful would be to get daily dumps of the nature of "which queries led to Wikipedia results beings shown on Google Search", "what was the average result position for a wikipedia result to each of those queries", and "how many instances of that query on that day at a given position had a click on it", and so on. These queries are complex and will need a bit more code than a spreadsheet will allow us to do.
**Privacy Concerns?** The data is already heavily aggregated by Google. The data is not linked with Wikipedia data in any way; it is purely derived from user behaviour on Google's properties.
**Details**
* I've created a service account called wmf-search-console-account@wmf-sc-experiments.iam.gserviceaccount.com.
* This will need to be added as a "Restricted Viewer" to Search Console as per the definition [[ https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/7687615?visit_id=637787000163760161-1184993662&rd=1 | here ]]. I'd like this service account to be the "Restricted Viewer" for all the domains that my own principal (scherukuwada@wikimedia.org) is an Unverified Owner for. At the very least, at least en.m and en wikipedias.
* I intend to use the Google Console Project named "wmf-sc-experiments" created specifically for this purpose.
Requested manager (Abaso@) approval.