Hello Issa, Thank you for your question. The very high number of views of the "-" page is explained by this dash value being used as a special value for "no page title found" when extracting titles from urls. We definitely should document this in the API, creating this task: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T150249 Best Joseph
On Tue, Nov 8, 2016 at 12:28 AM, Issa Rice <ricei...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear Analytics Mailing List, > > Recently while querying pageviews of various pages, I discovered that > the page whose title is a single hyphen character (i.e. with the title > "-", with URL <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/->, which redirects to > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyphen-minus>) receives an unusually high > number of pageviews under the Pageview API. Taking October 2015 as an > example, the page received 5.4 million pageviews during that month > according to the API: > <https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/metrics/pageviews/per- > article/en.wikipedia/desktop/user/-/daily/20151001/20151031>. > > However, according the stats.grok.se (which was still operational in the > same month), the page received only 1209 pageviews: > <http://stats.grok.se/en/201510/->. > > Looking at the tabulation of pageviews on Wikipedia Views, the increase > in pageviews for this page coincides with the change to the Pageview > API in July 2015: > <http://wikipediaviews.org/displayviewsformultiplemonths. > php?page=-&allmonths=allmonths&drilldown=all>. > > As I understand, page titles must be URL-encoded before the query, > but the URL-encoding of "-" is itself. > > I looked at the API documentation but did not see this behavior listed, > so I am wondering where these numbers are coming from. > > Best regards, > Issa > > > _______________________________________________ > Analytics mailing list > Analytics@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics > > -- *Joseph Allemandou* Data Engineer @ Wikimedia Foundation IRC: joal
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