Thanks for the info about double-counting That is a good point that people have the alternative of reading about Lila in article space. I can't think of a better explanation.
Pine > Date: Sat, 10 May 2014 16:34:56 -0700 > From: Oliver Keyes <[email protected]> > To: "A mailing list for the Analytics Team at WMF and everybody who > has an interest in Wikipedia and analytics." > <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Analytics] stats.grok.se questions > Message-ID: > <caauqgdbvbm-xuoio19nujvab3rxafrm-y8a-1fvyx7zcage...@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > 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 > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > <http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/analytics/attachments/20140510/465aec18/attachment-0001.html> > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Analytics mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics > > > End of Analytics Digest, Vol 27, Issue 11 > *****************************************
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