Thanks Oliver! The thing I'm really looking forward to — hopefully this is on the medium-term roadmap for stats.wikimedia.org? — is an API for article-level view data based on this new definition.
-Sage On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 10:20 AM, Oliver Keyes <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey all, > > I'm very pleased to announce that the new pageviews definition is (1) > complete and (2) implemented. Prominent features include: > > 1. A removal of the per-project double-counting due to banners; > 2. The removal of meta over-over-OVER-counting due to EventLogging; > 3. The inclusion of Mobile App traffic; > 4. The inclusion of projects with non-standard URL schemes. > > What this means in practice is that when the data begins coming out > through stats.wikimedia.org and elsewhere, you can expect to see a > substantial drop in traffic. This is not a drop in traffic; it is a > correction for the massive inaccuracies in the existing definition, > which are causing an artificial /rise/. > > So, what's next? Well, the Analytics Engineering team has to implement > the functionality on a regularly running job to get the data released > on a consistent basis. We also need to split out per-article pageviews > and do some tagging to provide granular reports - see > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Page_view#Future_work . But > the core definition is complete. > > Huge thanks to Andrew Otto, Christian, Nuria, Aaron and Bob West for > their contributions to this project. > > -- > Oliver Keyes > Research Analyst > Wikimedia Foundation > > _______________________________________________ > Analytics mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics _______________________________________________ Analytics mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics
