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| 2017 || February 17 || User motivation || The paper ''Why We Read Wikipedia'', a collaboration of researchers at the Wikimedia Foundation, Stanford University, and elsewhere, is uploaded to the [[wikipedia:ArXiV|ArXiV]].<ref>{{cite web|url = https://arxiv.org/abs/1702.05379|title = Why We Read Wikipedia|date = February 17, 2017|accessdate = March 10, 2017|publisher = [[ArXiV]]}}</ref> A talk with the same title, covering the research, had been delivered by paper co-author Leila Zia in the November 2016 research showcase.<ref>{{cite web|url = https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Showcase#November_2016|title = Wikimedia Research Showcase, November 2016|accessdate = March 10, 2017}}</ref> The paper is based on surveys conducted ''on'' Wikipedia, with a response rate of about 0.2% on desktop and slightly lower on mobile. It discusses three dimensions: motivation, information need, and prior knowledge. Breakdowns by dimension, correlations between dimensions, weekly trends, and correlation with user session behavior (time spent per page, number of pages) are all discussed.
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| 2017 || April 29, 30 || Censorship || The {{w|block of Wikipedia in Turkey}} occurs amidst a general "crackdown on dissent and free expression" in Turkey. This results in a sharp drop in Wikipedia use in Turkey. Of the language Wikipedias, the Turkish Wikipedia sees the clearest effect, with desktop traffic dropping by 2/3 and mobile traffic more than 80% from April to May 2017.<ref>{{cite weBweb|url = https://wikipediaviews.org/displayviewsformultiplemonths.php?page=%5Baggregate%5D&allmonths=allmonths&language=tr&drilldown=human|title = Views of Turkish Wikipedia|publisher = Wikipedia Views}}</ref> The country breakdown statistics also confirm this: compare April 2017 data for Turkey<ref>{{cite web|url = https://stats.wikimedia.org/archive/squid_reports/2017-04/SquidReportPageViewsPerCountryBreakdownHuge.htm|title = Wikimedia Traffic Analysis Report - Wikipedia Page Views Per Country - Breakdown|accessdate = July 15, 2018|publisher = Wikimedia Foundation}}</ref> with May 2017 data for Turkey.<ref>{{cite web|url = https://stats.wikimedia.org/archive/squid_reports/2017-05/SquidReportPageViewsPerCountryBreakdownHuge.htm|title = Wikimedia Traffic Analysis Report - Wikipedia Page Views Per Country - Breakdown|accessdate = July 15, 2018|publisher = Wikimedia Foundation}}</ref> The difficulty of blocking individual URLs, due to the use of HTTPS, was cited by the Turkish courts as the reason for banning the whole site.
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|2017 || August || Statistics availability || stats.grok.se appears to be down from around the beginning of the month. The exact date it went down is not recorded.<ref>{{cite web|url = https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/analytics/2017-August/005978.html|title = [Analytics] Anybody know about stats.grok.se going down?|last = Naik|first = Vipul|date = August 7, 2017|accessdate = August 13, 2017|publisher = Wikimedia Analytics mailing list}}</ref>
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