Hi all,

My two cents to discussion about endpoints to pageview API:
1) stats for categories that include all subcats and all pages,
2) include redirects to article counts

All the best,

On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 6:05 PM, Nuria Ruiz <[email protected]> wrote:

> Trying again, adding analytics@ (public e-mail list)
>
> On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 5:22 AM, Marcel Ruiz Forns <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> I also think we should start with exposing the 3 api's endpoints in a
>> GUI, which - as Dan says - we know respond to community interests. And then
>> ask the community for more input, that could mean improvements to the tool,
>> new endpoints or completely new ideas...
>>
>> On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 10:45 PM, Dan Andreescu <[email protected]
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> I'm ok if people want to take an iterative approach, I just want to
>>> point out that the usage information is not very indicative of value at
>>> this point.  The API is not widely used and the per-article endpoint is
>>> expected to be hit much much more than per-project or top simply because
>>> the queries are many orders of magnitude more granular.  So we can't really
>>> judge importance from that comparison.
>>>
>>> On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 4:43 PM, Leila Zia <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 1:09 PM, Dan Andreescu <dandreescu@wikimedia
>>>> .org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> My question is: How are we going to define the requirements for the
>>>>>> tool? I was planning to get some community input on defining which stats
>>>>>> would help contributors the most. What do you think?
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> My opinion here is that we should just expose everything the pageview
>>>>> API is capable of.  It's only 3 different end points and they were chosen
>>>>> based on what the community found useful.  As we add more endpoints we can
>>>>> keep checking if visualization is important.  But of course if others have
>>>>> other more specific plans, we can wait for those tools to be built and
>>>>> iterate.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ​Building up on Dan's suggestion: I'd go with communicating and/or
>>>> discussing the following with the community:
>>>>
>>>> * the 3 different metrics we can offer a UI for
>>>> * what other metrics they find useful for their work. This will help us
>>>> collect information about what other kind of metrics we should offer as an
>>>> end-point if we decide to add to the end-points (pageview per article
>>>> by country has come up many times, for example)
>>>> * whether they consider the wish as satisfied if we offer a UI for the
>>>> 3 different metrics, and perhaps over time add more metrics to the UI
>>>> as they become available (not necessarily in 2016).
>>>>
>>>> Leila
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> *Marcel Ruiz Forns*
>> Analytics Developer
>> Wikimedia Foundation
>>
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