Re: [Wikitech-l] Unique Devices data available on API
Ha, perhaps Nuria’s quote should read: > it does not include any cookie by which your brows*ING* history can be tracked [3]. s/browser/browsing/ On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 4:38 PM, bawolffwrote: > > it does not include any > > cookie by which your browser history can be tracked [3]. > > Umm, it involves a cookie, which tracks whether you have previously > browsed the site. While I applaud the analytics team in using such a > privacy friendly method, I'm not sure its an entirely truthful > statement to say that it does not involve a cookie in which your > browser history can be tracked. The date you've visited previously > sounds like a part of your browser history to me. > > To be clear, this is not meant to be a criticism. I think the approach > that is being taken is really great. > > -- > -bawolff > > ___ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] Unique Devices data available on API
> it does not include any > cookie by which your browser history can be tracked [3]. Umm, it involves a cookie, which tracks whether you have previously browsed the site. While I applaud the analytics team in using such a privacy friendly method, I'm not sure its an entirely truthful statement to say that it does not involve a cookie in which your browser history can be tracked. The date you've visited previously sounds like a part of your browser history to me. To be clear, this is not meant to be a criticism. I think the approach that is being taken is really great. -- -bawolff ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
[Wikitech-l] Unique Devices data available on API
Hello! The analytics team is happy to announce that the Unique Devices data is now available to be queried programmatically via an API. This means that getting the daily number of unique devices [1] for English Wikipedia for the month of February 2016, for all sites (desktop and mobile) is as easy as launching this query: https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/metrics/unique-devices/en.wikipedia.org/all-sites/daily/20160201/20160229 You can get started by taking a look at our docs: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Analytics/Unique_Devices#Quick_Start If you are not familiar with the Unique Devices data the main thing you need to know is that is a good proxy metric to measure Unique Users, more info below. Since 2009, the Wikimedia Foundation used comScore to report data about unique web visitors. In January 2016, however, we decided to stop reporting comScore numbers [2] because of certain limitations in the methodology, these limitations translated into misreported mobile usage. We are now ready to replace comscore numbers with the Unique Devices Dataset . While unique devices does not equal unique visitors, it is a good proxy for that metric, meaning that a major increase in the number of unique devices is likely to come from an increase in distinct users. We understand that counting uniques raises fairly big privacy concerns and we use a very private conscious way to count unique devices, it does not include any cookie by which your browser history can be tracked [3]. [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Unique_Devices [2] [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/ComScore/Announcement [3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Unique_Devices#How_do_we_count_unique_ devices.3F ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l