I shared this at English Wikipedia WikiProject Medicine's talk page. We use this a lot for medical articles and needed this because the COVID-19 articles change names so much https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Medicine#New_feature_-_pageviews_-_now_can_include_redirects
thanks On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 11:28 AM Jaime Crespo <[email protected]> wrote: > MusikAnimal, > > I don't want to undervalue the work needed to support backend and > data, which must not besmall. But I wanted to praise the great job > I've seen on frontend development on both > https://tools.wmflabs.org/pageviews and the other pageview api tool, > wikistats https://stats.wikimedia.org (to you, fdans, Marcel, Kaldari, > Dan, Nuria and many others). Using those tools are highly enjoyable, > which is something rare to say in today's web applications. > > Great work everybody, those 2 are my favourite standalone Wikimedia > tools in the last few years! > > > On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 4:07 PM Diego Saez-Trumper <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > Hey MusikAnimal, > > > > That's super cool, thanks. I'm wondering what you do this "under the > hood". Do you first get all redirects and then call the pageviews API for > each of them and sum-up? > > > > Thx > > > > On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 6:21 PM MusikAnimal <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> > >> Hello! I hope this is an appropriate place to share this. > >> > >> The Pageviews Analysis tool[0] now has an "Include redirects" option, > so you no longer need to go to the more specialized Redirect Views tool[1] > for this information. This has been a long-requested feature. > >> > >> See for example results for the 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic with[2] > and without[3] redirects. Here there is a big difference since the article > was moved several times. > >> > >> In the "Settings" there is a new option, "Always include redirects", so > that redirects are always included automatically. For now this option is > off by default since it can theoretically slow down the tool considerably, > depending on how many redirects there are. > >> > >> Soon I hope to get Langviews[4] and the other tools to have an "Include > redirects" option, too. > >> > >> I'll note it's entirely possible there are bugs with this latest > release, so please do share if you encounter them, either here, on > Phabricator[5] or in the feedback forum[6]. > >> > >> Thanks and hope this helps, > >> > >> ~MA > >> > >> [0] https://tools.wmflabs.org/pageviews > >> [1] https://tools.wmflabs.org/redirectviews > >> [2] > https://tools.wmflabs.org/pageviews/?project=en.wikipedia.org&platform=all-access&agent=user&redirects=1&range=latest-30&pages=2019%E2%80%9320_coronavirus_pandemic > >> [3] > https://tools.wmflabs.org/pageviews/?project=en.wikipedia.org&platform=all-access&agent=user&redirects=0&range=latest-30&pages=2019%E2%80%9320_coronavirus_pandemic > >> [4] https://tools.wmflabs.org/langviews/ > >> [5] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2045/ > >> [6] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Pageviews_Analysis > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Analytics mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Analytics mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics > > > > -- > Jaime Crespo > <http://wikimedia.org> > > _______________________________________________ > Analytics mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics > -- Lane Rasberry user:bluerasberry on Wikipedia 206.801.0814 [email protected]
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