Research talk:Measuring value-added
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Please feel free to ask questions, raise concerns or propose ideas here. I'll post status updates here, so you can keep track of this project by watching this page. --Halfak (WMF) (talk) 18:02, 28 October 2014 (UTC)
I'm reading Research:Measuring article importance (which also proves the value it would have to fix bugzilla:42259), but in the meanwhile: do you think a robust answer to this research question will depend on having a robust definition of page view? I contributed some observations and quirks there mostly for the research/analytics value an "exact" page view count could have in many places; in general I think the approximate numbers we have now do their work well. --Nemo 16:05, 14 November 2014 (UTC)
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When you count the number of inbound links to an article, are you filtering out navboxes? (I think you should.) Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 18:51, 12 January 2016 (UTC)
- Yes. I've been working with "organic" inlinks which are links that appear in the markup -- not links that come through a template. This is harder to work with because I need to process the entire text of Wikipedia, but I have some efficient ways to do it. Theoretically, one could listen to RCStream and keep such an index of "organic" links up to date. --Halfak (WMF) (talk) 21:16, 12 January 2016 (UTC)