Maybe the high value in October (45M) has something to do with the last changes in https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T145922 ?
On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 9:25 PM, Nuria Ruiz <nu...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > 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 >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Analytics mailing list > Analytics@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics > > -- *Marcel Ruiz Forns* Analytics Developer Wikimedia Foundation
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