You're welcome Oliver, and well done, another milestone :-) I think we need to update our page view dumps first, which pipe into many existing reports (WMF maintained and external). Then after that an API would be a huge improvement!
Erik Zachte -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Oliver Keyes Sent: Wednesday, March 04, 2015 19:47 To: A mailing list for the Analytics Team at WMF and everybody who has an interest in Wikipedia and analytics. Subject: Re: [Analytics] [Announce] new Pageviews definition complete and implemented 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 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Analytics mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics > > _______________________________________________ > Analytics mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics -- 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
