Community Wishlist Survey 2023/Miscellaneous/Improve PagePile or create new tool for article lists for communication metrics/Proposal/en

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  • Problem: Wikipedia lacks communication industry analytics, which is major barrier to organizational partnerships. Tools such as Magnus Manske's PagePile that allow creating arbitrary article lists which can then be fed into analytics tools such as Massviews, but there are limitations.
  • Proposed solution: Start by making a better "article list" generator which feeds into analytics tools, or improve the existing PagePile tool. The article list tool should have multilingual and cross-wiki support, and the ability to edit the list.
  • Who would benefit: Museum partners, communication professionals, Wikimedians in Residence, university collaborators
  • More comments: Check out this open source software traffic report demo for English Wikipedia which uses Massviews Analysis and the PagePile tool. Ideally we could do this without the use of two tools, or at least improve PagePile so that we can change the list
  • Phabricator tickets: phab:T231891
  • Proposer: Bluerasberry (talk) 19:19, 26 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]