This is documented now here: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Analytics/PageviewAPI#Gotchas
On Tue, Nov 8, 2016 at 7:25 AM, Vipul Naik <vipulna...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Joseph, > > Thanks for the clarification. > > Any ideas why this number is much higher for some months? In particular, > on desktop, it's high in the months of July to September 2015 (around 10 > million, compared to the usual 5 million) and then high again in October > 2016 (45 million, about 10x the usual value). > > Data is from http://wikipediaviews.org/displayviewsformultiplemonths. > php?page=-&allmonths=allmonths&drilldown=all which summarizes results > from the Wikimedia API (and stats.grok.se for data before July 2015). > > Vipul > > On Tue, Nov 8, 2016 at 3:46 AM, Joseph Allemandou < > jalleman...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > >> 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-art >>> icle/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 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Analytics mailing list >> Analytics@lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Analytics mailing list > Analytics@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics > >
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