A metric that is based on a draft RfC that was only created this year
and depends on JS? I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest it has
problems of its own ;p

On 3 December 2015 at 14:22, Gabriel Wicke <[email protected]> wrote:
> I have witnessed this discussion about what constitutes a page view
> repeatedly over the last months, and suspect that it is only going to
> get murkier the more interactive and non-navigation features we add.
> Some of these decisions are somewhat arbitrary, making the page view
> metric a less accurate indicator for the true engagement of users with
> our site.
>
> I think we should complement pageviews with a new metric that
> side-steps a binary 1/0 decision: Time on Site. I have written up some
> thoughts on this at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T119352.
>
> Gabriel
>
> On Thu, Dec 3, 2015 at 10:13 AM, Oliver Keyes <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I have been informed MW Core no longer exists. Fair catch ;p. But this
>> is software development, not Oprah - product ownership is not
>> something under the seat of every audience member. Someone needs to
>> actually own the definition. I don't mind if it's AnEng, Research,
>> Readership, Search, whoever, but it being an unknown and undisclosed
>> responsibility that falls on the shoulders of everyone is a really bad
>> way of doing it.
>>
>> This is an organisational metric. Someone needs to own it.
>>
>> On 3 December 2015 at 13:11, Oliver Keyes <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Sure, but ownership does not mean "knows everything" it means "Makes
>>> sure it gets done". MediaWiki is owned by everyone, sure, but the
>>> actual idea of what MediaWiki core is has a team. The MediaWiki core
>>> team.
>>>
>>> On 3 December 2015 at 13:07, Nuria Ruiz <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>So the pageview definition, one of our core organisational KPIs, is owned
>>>>> simultaneously by everyone?
>>>> Sure, just like mediawiki codebase is collectively own.
>>>>
>>>> Personally I do not see that as a problem and regardless I think it 
>>>> reflects
>>>> reality, analytics team -as I mentioned before- doesn't have the knowledge
>>>> or authority to "decide" what constitutes a search pageview without talking
>>>> to the team/devs/community memebers that actually know how search works.
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Dec 3, 2015 at 9:55 AM, Oliver Keyes <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> So the pageview definition, one of our core organisational KPIs, is
>>>>> owned simultaneously by everyone?
>>>>>
>>>>> On 3 December 2015 at 12:54, Nuria Ruiz <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>> >>Who does own it?
>>>>> > On our opinion every team should own the definition of a pageview in
>>>>> > their
>>>>> > product right and when in doubt analytics or research can be involved to
>>>>> > provide feedback on lessons learned.
>>>>> >
>>>>> > For example: who is best qualified than IOS team to decide what
>>>>> > constitutes
>>>>> > a page in the IOS app?
>>>>> >
>>>>> > With that in mind I have created a ticket to define what constitutes a
>>>>> > Search pageview: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T120249
>>>>> >
>>>>> > Let me know what is a good discovery project to tag this ticket with so
>>>>> > this
>>>>> > ticket gets some visibility.
>>>>> >
>>>>> > Thanks,
>>>>> >
>>>>> > Nuria
>>>>> >
>>>>> >
>>>>> >
>>>>> > On Thu, Dec 3, 2015 at 9:44 AM, Oliver Keyes <[email protected]>
>>>>> > wrote:
>>>>> >>
>>>>> >> On 2 December 2015 at 15:38, Nuria Ruiz <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>> >> >>It's true that MediaWiki supports search based solely on the ?search
>>>>> >> >> query
>>>>> >> >> parameter. Regardless of whether title=Special:Search is specified.
>>>>> >> >>This is mostly for legacy reasons as search predates the concept of
>>>>> >> >> special
>>>>> >> >> pages.
>>>>> >> >>However, would it make sense to instead count these as page views for
>>>>> >> >> 'Special:Search'?
>>>>> >> >
>>>>> >> > One thing worth clarifying is that analytics team doesn't own the
>>>>> >> > pageview
>>>>> >> > definition (https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Page_view), we
>>>>> >> > implement it to the best of our ability. Deciding what constitutes a
>>>>> >> > pageview for search falls on the search team as they are the ones
>>>>> >> > that
>>>>> >> > know
>>>>> >> > their functionality best (substitute "search team" by "some entity
>>>>> >> > with
>>>>> >> > knowledge of mediawiki's search abilities") According to Timo's
>>>>> >> > comment
>>>>> >> > it
>>>>> >> > seems that "?search" requests should be counted as true pageviews but
>>>>> >> > let us
>>>>> >> > know otherwise via phab ticket or this list.
>>>>> >> >
>>>>> >>
>>>>> >> Who does own it?
>>>>> >>
>>>>> >> > Thanks,
>>>>> >> >
>>>>> >> > Nuria
>>>>> >> >
>>>>> >> >
>>>>> >> >
>>>>> >> >
>>>>> >> >
>>>>> >> >
>>>>> >> > On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 11:57 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo)
>>>>> >> > <[email protected]>
>>>>> >> > wrote:
>>>>> >> >>
>>>>> >> >> Oliver Keyes, 02/12/2015 18:52:
>>>>> >> >>>
>>>>> >> >>> Via Brian Davis we find out the responsible patch is
>>>>> >> >>>
>>>>> >> >>>
>>>>> >> >>>
>>>>> >> >>> https://github.com/wikimedia/analytics-refinery-source/commit/05e5da92553dbd3e691eb45d40e559895337935f
>>>>> >> >>
>>>>> >> >>
>>>>> >> >> Context:
>>>>> >> >>
>>>>> >> >>
>>>>> >> >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research_talk:Page_view/Archive_1#Parameters_appended_to_short_URLs
>>>>> >> >>
>>>>> >> >> Nemo
>>>>> >> >>
>>>>> >> >>
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