Please do take a look at desktop-only data available now:
https://analytics.wikimedia.org/dashboards/browsers/#desktop-site-by-os

Fedora is there but in a year and a half there is only a handful of days
where usage goes over  0.05%

Thanks,

Nuria

On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 6:42 AM, Christian Schaller <[email protected]>
wrote:

>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Nuria Ruiz" <[email protected]>
> > To: "Christian Schaller" <[email protected]>
> > Cc: "A mailing list for the Analytics Team at WMF and everybody who has
> an interest in Wikipedia and analytics."
> > <[email protected]>, "Tomas Popela" <[email protected]>
> > Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2017 4:11:54 PM
> > Subject: Re: [Analytics] Os stats
> >
> > >Hmm, does not make sense to me that the traffic caused by our users
> would
> > be that small,
> > Overall? I disagree, I think it does, think that wikipedia (our main
> source
> > of traffic for all wikimedia projects) is fastly moving to mobile, thus
> > mobile OS are the bulk of the requests, desktop are the minority and, in
> > that minority, Linux is the minority.
>
> Sorry I did not mean to imply that gathering the mobile statistics isn't
> useful
> for Wikipedia, I was just saying that grouping them with desktop data
> drownes out
> desktop data for smaller outfits like ourselves, making the data less
> useful for
> us. That said I do appreciate that you share this data as a public service
> and have
> no obligation to do so, so to be 100% clear; regardless of immediate
> usefulness to
> me I am grateful for the effort you guys are doing. So thank you :)
>
>
> > Just looked at December 2016 overall pageviews for desktop and mobile
> > coming from "users" (not self-identified-bots) and for that month about
> 20%
> > of pageviews are on iOS, 25% are on Android and Fedora is 0.027%. This
> data
> > is counting all projects for the whole world at large, probably Fedora
> > represents a larger chuck of traffic in US-desktop only traffic.
> >
> > I think we are going to be adding a bit more info to our browser reports
> > with desktop-only data but still, Fedora traffic is probably not going to
> > display.
> >
> > >Anyway, I will install the analytics stuff myself on a local machine and
> > do some testing, to see if I
> > >can see a reason for things to fail register properly.
> >
> > If you end up committing any fix to ua-parser please let us know
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 9:28 AM, Christian Schaller <[email protected]
> >
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Hmm, does not make sense to me that the traffic caused by our users
> would
> > > be that small,
> > > and there is no version string for Fedora in the user agent, it is
> just:
> > > Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Fedora; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like
> > > Gecko) Chrome/56.0.2924.87 Safari/537.36
> > >
> > > Anyway, I will install the analytics stuff myself on a local machine
> and
> > > do some testing, to see if I
> > > can see a reason for things to fail register properly. Thanks for the
> > > quick and helpful answers so far.
> > >
> > > Christian
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > > From: "Nuria Ruiz" <[email protected]>
> > > > To: "A mailing list for the Analytics Team at WMF and everybody who
> has
> > > an interest in Wikipedia and analytics."
> > > > <[email protected]>
> > > > Cc: "Christian Schaller" <[email protected]>, "Tomas Popela" <
> > > [email protected]>
> > > > Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2017 12:12:28 PM
> > > > Subject: Re: [Analytics] Os stats
> > > >
> > > > Small correction, threshold of browser reporting is 0.05%:
> > > > https://github.com/wikimedia/analytics-refinery/blob/
> > > master/oozie/browser/general/coordinator.properties#L62
> > > > Even for our traffic below that number reporting is really not that
> > > > meaningful. Now because the way that grouping happens if 'Fedora 23'
> and
> > > > 'Fedora 24' (imaginary versions) have 0.025% traffic neither will get
> > > > reported. This is something we would like to improve and we have a
> ticket
> > > > for it here: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T131127 (feel free to
> > > chime
> > > > in)
> > > >
> > > > Now, even with big traffic like ours there is a threshold below which
> > > > reporting data is not meaningful as numbers in some instances
> oscillate a
> > > > lot and that means that there is more noise than signal, we will try
> to
> > > get
> > > > an specific "desktop" tab (so only requests to desktop site are
> counted)
> > > > but even then, Fedora traffic might be too small to display.
> > > >
> > > > On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 6:09 AM, Dan Andreescu <
> [email protected]
> > > >
> > > > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > The threshold is actually at 0.1%, though you are right that this
> is
> > > > > fairly arbitrary. We have sanitizing data on our goals next
> quarter,
> > > and
> > > > > that's when we'll take a more mathematical approach at the problem.
> > > > >
> > > > >   Original Message
> > > > > From: Christian Schaller
> > > > > Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2017 08:44
> > > > > To: Dan Andreescu
> > > > > Cc: A mailing list for the Analytics Team at WMF and everybody who
> has
> > > an
> > > > > interest in Wikipedia and analytics.; Tomas Popela
> > > > > Subject: Re: [Analytics] Os stats
> > > > >
> > > > > Been thinking a bit about this and while I do appreciate the
> privacy
> > > > > concerns I would assume that
> > > > > even if you set the threshold to 0.5% the amount of traffic on
> > > Wikipedia
> > > > > would still be great enough
> > > > > for that to not be a real privacy risk? It is just that wikimedia
> is
> > > one
> > > > > of the few open sources with
> > > > > a huge traffic base for this kind of information and we would love
> to
> > > use
> > > > > it as a neutral way to track
> > > > > our own userbase growth in comparison with the wider market. So we
> know
> > > > > from our internal statistics that we
> > > > > more than doubled our userbase over the last year, but having a
> > > resource
> > > > > like wikimedia would allow us to see
> > > > > how those numbers play out in the bigger picture. So any chance of
> > > > > convincing you to lower the threshold
> > > > > to 0.5% to hopefully allow us to start using the statistics already
> > > now?
> > > > >
> > > > > Sincerely,
> > > > > Christian F.K. Schaller
> > > > > Manager for Fedora & Red Hat Desktop efforts
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > > > > From: "Dan Andreescu" <[email protected]>
> > > > > > To: "A mailing list for the Analytics Team at WMF and everybody
> who
> > > has
> > > > > an interest in Wikipedia and analytics."
> > > > > > <[email protected]>
> > > > > > Cc: "Christian Schaller" <[email protected]>, "Tomas Popela" <
> > > > > [email protected]>
> > > > > > Sent: Tuesday, March 14, 2017 2:10:38 PM
> > > > > > Subject: Re: [Analytics] Os stats
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Christian,
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I wanted to make sure our code is working well so I took a look.
> We
> > > use
> > > > > UA
> > > > > > Parser, a regex-based community-maintained user agent
> identifier. It
> > > > > > correctly identified Fedora as the OS in all of the strings I
> found
> > > like
> > > > > > '%Fedora%' for the hour of raw webrequests I looked at. However,
> > > there
> > > > > > were less than 0.1% requests that were identified as Fedora. We
> cut
> > > off
> > > > > > reporting statistics when numbers get that low for privacy
> reasons.
> > > But
> > > > > > everything is detected correctly, so if Fedora's share of
> requests
> > > > > > increases, it will show up on the charts.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Hope this helps.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 1:51 PM, Erik Zachte <
> [email protected]>
> > > > > wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > > Hi Christian,
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > I'm forwarding your question to the WMF Analytics Team who
> authored
> > > > > this
> > > > > > > report.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Cheers,
> > > > > > > Erik
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > > > > From: Christian Schaller [mailto:[email protected]]
> > > > > > > Sent: Monday, March 13, 2017 16:07
> > > > > > > To: Erik Zachte
> > > > > > > Cc: Tomas Popela
> > > > > > > Subject: Re: Os stats
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Hi Erik,
> > > > > > > Thanks for getting the new OS stats up on:
> > > > > > > https://analytics.wikimedia.org/dashboards/browsers/#all-
> > > > > > > sites-by-os/os-family-timeseries
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > That said as far as we can tell the detection of Fedora does
> not
> > > work
> > > > > at
> > > > > > > all currently and we can not figure out why. Ubuntu which is
> > > detected
> > > > > uses
> > > > > > > the following user agent:
> > > > > > > Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101
> > > > > > > Firefox/52.0
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > While Fedora which isn't detected uses this user agent:
> > > > > > > Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Fedora; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101
> > > > > > > Firefox/52.0
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Would you be so kind to let us know what the wikimedia
> analytics
> > > engine
> > > > > > > uses to try to identify Fedora systems? We can tweak our user
> > > agents
> > > > > quite
> > > > > > > easily if that is easier than updating the analytics engines
> way of
> > > > > > > detecting Fedora.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Sincerely,
> > > > > > > Christian F.K. Schaller
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > > > > > > From: "Erik Zachte" <[email protected]>
> > > > > > > > To: "Christian Schaller" <[email protected]>
> > > > > > > > Sent: Tuesday, October 6, 2015 11:28:55 AM
> > > > > > > > Subject: RE: Os stats
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > Hi Christian,
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > Sorry since my previous response we put the reports on hold,
> as
> > > there
> > > > > > > > are issues with reliability now that we migrated https almost
> > > fully.
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > Can you please add your signature to
> > > > > > > > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Analytics/Wikistats/
> > > > > TrafficReports/Futu
> > > > > > > > re_per_report_B2 I can do it for you, but I don't know: can
> I add
> > > > > your
> > > > > > > > full name or do you have a Wikipedia nick name that you
> prefer to
> > > > > use?
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > We are working on migration of the reports. More here:
> > > > > > > > https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T114379
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > Cheers,
> > > > > > > > Erik
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > > > > > From: Christian Schaller [mailto:[email protected]]
> > > > > > > > Sent: Tuesday, October 06, 2015 16:16
> > > > > > > > To: Erik Zachte
> > > > > > > > Subject: Re: Os stats
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > Hi Erik,
> > > > > > > > Just checking what the current plans are for the OS
> statistics
> > > on the
> > > > > > > > wikimedia site. As I mentioned in my first email to you, we
> would
> > > > > love
> > > > > > > > to use these numbers as a way to estimate how we are doing
> with
> > > > > Fedora
> > > > > > > > Linux as they are one of the few sources for such statistics
> > > where we
> > > > > > > > can be fairly sure the data is not biased one way or the
> other
> > > (due
> > > > > to
> > > > > > > > the huge number of people using wikipedia). Of course with
> the
> > > old
> > > > > > > > stats being discontinued I am know waiting for the new data
> to be
> > > > > made
> > > > > > > > available to start building my usage trend statistics :)
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > So on the page it says to let us know if we want a specific
> > > report
> > > > > > > > kept, so I would like to repeat my wish that there is a
> version
> > > of
> > > > > > > > report '2' kept available.
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > Anyway, I realize that maintaining these website statistics
> is a
> > > bit
> > > > > > > > of a sideshow for you guys and not a core part of what your
> > > doing, so
> > > > > > > > I just want to say that I do truly appreciate the effort to
> try
> > > to
> > > > > > > > have something at all available.
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > Sincerely,
> > > > > > > > Christian Schaller
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > > > > > > > From: "Erik Zachte" <[email protected]>
> > > > > > > > > To: "Christian Schaller" <[email protected]>
> > > > > > > > > Sent: Monday, June 22, 2015 10:41:40 AM
> > > > > > > > > Subject: RE: Os stats
> > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > Hi Christian,
> > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > I started a job to catch-up for the last 3 months, will
> take
> > > 4-5
> > > > > days.
> > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > FYI these reports are almost end-of-life. Expect a complete
> > > > > overhaul
> > > > > > > > > of Wikimedia traffic and core metrics reporting based on
> bigger
> > > > > iron
> > > > > > > > > and new paradigms (e.g. hadoop) in 2015 Q3/A4.
> > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > Cheers,
> > > > > > > > > Erik
> > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > > > > > > From: Christian Schaller [mailto:[email protected]]
> > > > > > > > > Sent: Tuesday, June 16, 2015 16:46
> > > > > > > > > To: [email protected]
> > > > > > > > > Subject: Os stats
> > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > Hi Erik,
> > > > > > > > > Been checking out the stats on
> > > > > > > > > https://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/squids/
> > > > > > > SquidReportOperatingSystems.htm.
> > > > > > > > > Are you planning on updating that page again soon?
> > > > > > > > > We are using your numbers as one of the datapoints for
> > > estimating
> > > > > > > > > how Fedora Linux is doing, so I hope you plan on pulling
> new
> > > > > numbers
> > > > > > > > > from time to time.
> > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > Christian
> > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > >
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