Thank you both, this is very helpful - and I will ask these questions on-list from now on!
Mel On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 4:38 PM, Nuria Ruiz <[email protected]> wrote: > >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 <[email protected]> > 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 <[email protected]> >> 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> >>> >>> [email protected] >>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Analytics mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics >> >> > -- Melody Kramer Read a random featured article from Wikipedia! <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:RandomInCategory/Featured_articles> [email protected]
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