https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35045
Benjamin Mako Hill <[email protected]> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |[email protected] --- Comment #16 from Benjamin Mako Hill <[email protected]> --- I've a researcher who has studied redirects in Wikipedia. I'm also active from time to time on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Redirects_for_discussion where we very frequently use viewership statistics to make decisions on which redirects to keep. I wanted to confirm that I understand the effect of this patch on that data that Wikimedia publishes. Here's my understanding: To date, views to redirects count as a views to the redirect page from the perspective of our view-tracking software (e.g., on http://stats.grok.se/). This patch will make it appear, from the browser's URL bar and browser history, that the user is visiting the target page. This patch will not change the way that views are recorded in our view log tables. Things will continue to be recorded in the view logs published by WMF just as they have before. If, however, we were to use any data stored by a users personal history file stored in their browser, the fact that users visited a redirect (and not the target page directly) would disappear. Is that all correct? -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
