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
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> 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
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>>>
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>>>
>>>
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