Word. I think that's a must-have. Kevin or Toby would be better
equipped to speak up on this than me, however.

On 4 March 2015 at 13:41, Sage Ross <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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
>>
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