>I'd hypothesize, for example, that IE is used much less outside of the
article and portal namespaces.
You mean "editing" versus "reading" traffic?

On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 10:45 AM, Madhumitha Viswanathan <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Marcel is totally right! If you want to do one off analyses for specific
> pages or namespaces though(like browser breakdown for namespace User: on
> enwiki - main namespace may not be possible), that may be possible if you
> run some queries in our Hive store. Do you have access to
> stat1002(analytics-privatedata-users group)? If not you can request access
> as per https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Analytics/Cluster/Access and
> we can help you run some one off calculations.
>
> On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 10:36 AM, Marcel Ruiz Forns <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Amir,
>>
>> Would it be crazy to ask for statistics of user agents per page or per
>>> namespace?
>>
>> I'd hypothesize, for example, that IE is used much less outside of the
>>> article and portal namespaces.
>>
>>
>> I don't think it's crazy. I +1 your hypothesis :]
>> But, yes, I see it difficult to implement:
>>
>>    - The new user-agent breakdown reports (browser-reports.wmflabs.org)
>>    are derived from the pageview_hourly table which comes from the webrequest
>>    table, both in hadoop. None of them has structured information about the
>>    namespace. It should be parsed from the URL or other fields, but the
>>    namespaces have different names in different languages, so this would be
>>    very tricky.
>>
>>    - Breaking down the user-agent statistics per article would be also
>>    very expensive computationally, given the high number of articles. The
>>    Pageview API shows pageviews per article, and to reach this we Analytics
>>    have had to solve storage and data loading and compression problems, that
>>    arose from the big size of that data. Having user-agent breakdown per
>>    article would mean multiplying the size of that by a lot.
>>
>> Maybe I'm missing an easier way to do it, but it seems it would take a
>> long time to solve this.
>>
>> On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 1:04 PM, Amir E. Aharoni <
>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Would it be crazy to ask for statistics of user agents per page or per
>>> namespace?
>>>
>>> I'd hypothesize, for example, that IE is used much less outside of the
>>> article and portal namespaces.
>>>
>>> In case you're wondering what is it useful for: When I have a patch that
>>> requires browser compatibility trickery, I may want to invest less time in
>>> IE compatibility in a page that is unlikely to be viewed in IE much.
>>>
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