Research:Data/FAQ
What are your open access policies?
[edit]WMF encourages open access and ties technical, financial and data collection support for research to openness requirements as an incentive for open-access projects. See Wikimedia Foundation support for details.
Where can I download images and media files?
[edit]For more information about downloading images and media files see Where are images and uploaded files.
Where can I get RDF data?
[edit]Wikipedia data is available in RDF format on the third-party website DBpedia.
Where can I get page view data?
[edit]The best source of page view data are the Pageview statistics collected from Squid logs. WikiStats offers some information about page views based on the same source. Note that these are not unique hits.
For privacy-preserving statistics on article pageviews by country, check the Differential Privacy Datasets.
Do not use the API to get page view stats as many requests only make it to the Squid cache.
Where can I get unique visitors data?
[edit]See https://analytics.wikimedia.org/dashboards/vital-signs/ or the Reading statistics on Wikistats.
Where can I get editor data?
[edit]Edit counters:
- WikiChecker uses the API to get editor activity statistics
- X!'s Edit Counter gives a summary of a user's editing history
- Accounts by number of edits
You can also get a variety of editor data through the API, IRC recent changes feeds, and WikiStats (see WikiStats).