>One important thing to keep in mind:  You can aggregate pageviews by
language or project, but you can't do that for unique devices.
>Because the same devices might be used to visit many sites and there's no
way to deduplicate that.
Right. Please take a look at the docs about unique devices, we report
unique devices per project per site:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Unique_Devices#Differences_between_unique_devices_and_unique_users







On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 1:22 PM, Dan Andreescu <dandree...@wikimedia.org>
wrote:

> Hi Melody,
>
> I'm cc-ing our public list which is the best place to ask questions like
> this.
>
> So, the unique devices and pageviews numbers on the vital signs dashboard
> are fetched from our public APIs.  They don't allow bulk download.  To get
> bulk numbers, you can:
>
> * download everything from our public dumps [1] where you'll find
> pageviews by article or by project [2] and unique device numbers by project
> [3]
> * ask one of our analysts to crunch numbers (in this case, the reading
> team would be the relevant one to ask)
> * use our internal cluster to crunch numbers yourself (I can help show you
> around)
>
> One important thing to keep in mind:  You can aggregate pageviews by
> language or project, but you can't do that for unique devices.  Because the
> same devices might be used to visit many sites and there's no way to
> deduplicate that.  We're working on counting global unique devices so we
> have those numbers as well, though Tilman from reading has some interesting
> work on that too.
>
>
> [1] https://dumps.wikimedia.org/other/analytics/
> [2] https://dumps.wikimedia.org/other/pageviews/
> [3] https://dumps.wikimedia.org/other/unique_devices/
>
>
> On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 11:44 AM, Melody Kramer <mkra...@wikimedia.org>
> wrote:
>
>> Hey Dan and Mikhail,
>>
>> I'm working on a map of the Wikimedia universe that will show the
>> relative size of entities under the Wikimedia umbrella (Wikipedia,
>> Wikibooks, Wikinews, etc.) grouped by language, articles contributed and
>> then pageviews and/or unique devices.
>>
>> On this site: https://analytics.wikimedia.org/dashboards/vital-
>> signs/#projects=eswiki,itwiki,enwiki,jawiki,dewiki,ruwiki,
>> frwiki,enwikibooks,enwikinews,wikidatawiki,commonswiki/
>> metrics=UniqueDevices I'm able to manually enter each
>> language/wikiproject to see them all on the graph.
>>
>> Is there a way to acquire everything at once, and download it into a csv?
>> Or say "Show all?"
>>
>> I'm happy to say more! Thanks so much for your help/expertise in this
>> area in advance (and if there's someone else I should reach out to, please
>> let me know who that might be!)
>>
>> Mel
>>
>>
>> --
>> Melody Kramer
>> Read a random featured article from Wikipedia!
>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:RandomInCategory/Featured_articles>
>>
>> mkra...@wikimedia.org
>>
>>
>
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