Is it not a page view, or is it a page view of the image rather than the
article?

If the media viewer is dismissed and the page is then read, is it still not
a page view?

-- brion

On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 12:21 PM, Oliver Keyes <[email protected]> wrote:

> (Hat-tip to Nemo for noticing this)
>
> We're writing up and redefining the pageview definition. Amongst other
> things, it uses MIME type filtering and folder-level filtering to exclude
> non-pageviews.
>
> Problem: the multimedia viewer false anchor (an example is
> https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mar%C3%A7ello_Malpigi#mediaviewer/File:Marcello_Malpighi_large.jpg
> is both text/html (one of the recognised and appreciated MIME types) and
> /wiki/ (one of the recognised and appreciated domains).
>
> The result of this is that it's currently going to be counted as a
> pageview, even though it's...well, not.
>
> Is there any way you lot could avoid the false anchor strategy and pick a
> URL scheme that won't trigger this? If not, we can just write an exception
> - but I'd rather that we not have to do that every time anyone decides to
> make software.
>
> Thanks,
>
> --
> Oliver Keyes
> Research Analyst
> Wikimedia Foundation
>
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