We've written the draft Hive queries and I'm reviewing them with Otto now.
Currently blocked on Hadoop heapsize issues, but I'm sure we'll work it
through :).

On 15 December 2014 at 12:10, Toby Negrin <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi Aaron, all --
>
> I haven't seen any discussion on this which is a sign that we can forward
> with turning over the draft. Thoughts?
>
> thanks,
>
> -Toby
>
> On Tue, Dec 9, 2014 at 5:15 PM, Aaron Halfaker <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> Hey folks,
>>
>> As discussions on the new page view definition have been calming down,
>> we're preparing to deliver a draft version to the Devs.  I want to make
>> sure that we all know the status and that any substantial concerns are
>> raised before we hand things off on *Friday, Dec 12th.*
>>
>> For this phase, we are delivering the general filter[1].  This is the
>> highest level filter, and exists primarily to distinguish requests worthy
>> of further evaluation. Our plan is to take the definition as it exists on
>> the 12th, and begin generating high-level aggregate numbers based on it. In
>> future iterations, we will be digging into different breakdowns of this
>> metric, and iterating on it to handle any inconsistencies or unexpected
>> results.  There's a few differences from Web Stat Collector's (WSC) version
>> of the general filter that we want to call to your attention to.
>>
>>    - We include searches -- WSC explicitly excludes them.
>>    - We include Apps traffic -- WSC does not detect Apps traffic
>>    - We include variants of /wiki/ (e.g. /zh-tw/, /zh-cn/, /sr-ec/) --
>>    WSC hardcodes "/wiki/"
>>    - We don't include Banner impressions -- WSC includes them.
>>
>> There are also some known issues with the new definition that are worth
>> your notice:
>>
>>
>>    1. *Internal traffic is counted*
>>
>>
>>    - Note that WSC filters some internal traffic by hardcoding a set of
>>    IPs in the definition.  We are working on parsing puppet templates in 
>> order
>>    to automatically detect which IPs represent internal traffic.  This will 
>> be
>>    a /better/ solution, but it's not quite ready yet because parsing puppet 
>> is
>>    hard.
>>
>>
>>    1. *Spider traffic is counted*
>>
>>
>>    - We will be using the User-agent field to detect and flag
>>    spider-based traffic.  This "tag definition" will be delivered in a
>>    subsequent definition.  This actually matches WSC, which does not filter
>>    spider for the high-level metrics.
>>
>> These are problems we're aware of, and will be factoring in as we go
>> forward with our next task: refining the definition using real,
>> hourly-level traffic data. Thanks to everyone who has given feedback and
>> participated in the process thus far, particularly Nemo, Erik, and
>> Christian.
>>
>> 1. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Page_view/Generalised_filters
>>
>> -Aaron & Oliver
>>
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