Research talk:Measuring article importance/Work log/2014-12-23

Tuesday, December 23, 2014

Today, I finally got a chance to come back to examine the organic inlink dataset. It met my expectations.

Inlink density. The density of log(# of inlinks) is plotted for English Wikipedia articles by the avg. WikiProject importance classification.

Organic inlink density. The density of log(# of organic inlinks) is plotted for English Wikipedia articles by the avg. WikiProject importance classification. "Origanic inlinks" are those that appear in the text of the article as opposed to those that are added by transclusion.

It looks like low importance articles are more clearly offset from the high importance cluster when using all links. However the shape of the distributions are more normalish when using only organic inlinks. --Halfak (WMF) (talk) 16:11, 23 December 2014 (UTC)

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Here's the comparison with view rates:

View rate vs. organic inlinks. The density of log(# of organic inlinks) and log(views) is plotted for English Wikipedia articles by the avg. WikiProject importance classification.

--Halfak (WMF) (talk) 16:20, 23 December 2014 (UTC)