It should not double-count. Scenario: you go to [[Foo]], a redirect to [[Bar]]. A request is logged for http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foo, and MediaWiki internally examines Foo, works out it's a redirect to Bar, and provides the content of Bar instead. None of that happens at a level where the requestlogs directly catch it - MediaWiki doesn't send back a message going "uh, I think you want Bar", necessitating a second request, it just provides Bar's content.
In regards to Lila's page: maybe this is the first time people were pointed to her user page ;). I have no doubt that people are interested in finding out about her, but I imagine the reaction of most individuals would be to go to the article about her rather than her user page. On 10 May 2014 02:14, Alex Druk <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi there, > > I have no idea about Lila, but answer to your question about redirect and > articles is NO (at least in my opinion). > > If it would be double counting, number of hits on articles would be always > greater than on their redirects. It is not so. You can compare for example > page views on "Ghoramara" (redirect to Ghoramara Island) 24824 pageviews > in May according to stats.grok.se and "Ghoramara Island" (actual article) > - 68 pageviews. > > So, no double counting on stats.grok.se. It seems to me, that when user > used redirect the hit is listed in raw file, but actual article - not. > > Alex > > > > On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 9:48 AM, ENWP Pine <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Following up on >> http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/analytics/2014-April/001898.html >> >> Would including the redirect hits with the endpoint hits result in a >> user's single request for content being double-counted for the page where >> they eventually land? >> >> Here's another question about pageview statistics. On May 2 and May 3 >> there are spikes in the statistics for many users' user pages on English >> Wikipedia, but en:User:LilaTretikov has surprisingly few page hits. Does >> anyone have an explanation for how Risker is getting a lot more userpage >> views than the new executive director is on English Wikipedia? I have a >> hard time believing that more people and bots are curious about the user >> pages of Risker and lots of other Wikipedians than they are about the user >> page of Lila in the past few weeks, so I am wondering if there is some >> error in the pageview statistics or if there are a very large number of >> bots that are generating page views by linking to the user pages of editors >> who edit certain pages. >> >> Pine >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Analytics mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics >> > > > > -- > Thank you. > > Alex Druk > [email protected] > (775) 237-8550 Google voice > > _______________________________________________ > Analytics mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics > > -- Oliver Keyes Research Analyst Wikimedia Foundation
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