Agreed! First granular data, then granular data piping to wikistats, then granular data piping to everyone else.
On 4 March 2015 at 14:04, Erik Zachte <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 -- Oliver Keyes Research Analyst Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ Analytics mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics
