On Thu, Mar 2, 2017 at 4:33 AM, WereSpielChequers < werespielchequ...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Otherwise, I haven't fact checked the whole thing, but one problem with the > second sentence: > > > *Across the world, mobile pageviews to our free knowledge websites > increased by 170 million <http://reportcard.wmflabs.org/>.* > This needs a time element, otherwise it comes across as not really in the > same league as most stats about Wikipedia. The previous sentence was about > a whole year's activity and the following one about monthly activity. So it > reads like an annual figure or an increase on an annual figure. But the > stats it links to imply something closer to a weekly figure. From my > knowledge of the stats I suspect it could be an increase in raw downloads > of 170m a day or week or unique downloaders of 170m a week. Any of those > would actually be rather impressive. > > I saw this too and was wondering about the same. I think your guess is plausible that this refers to an increase of 170 million in *weekly* mobile pageviews (for context, mobile web pageviews on all Wikimedia sites for December 2016, normalized to 30 days, were 7.4 billion, up 11.6% from December 2015 <https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Wikimedia_Product&oldid=2399861#Reading_Audience>). Even so, there are some details of the calculation that I'm still curious about, but in any case, the increase in mobile pageviews remains a real and notable trend worth calling out (cf. https://commons.wikimedia.org/ wiki/File:Wikimedia_mobile_pageviews_year-over-year_comparis on_(since_May_2013).png ). BTW, the linked report card is deprecated, as one may infer from the fact the last numbers date from August 2016. Here is a current pageviews dashboard maintained by the WMF Analytics team: https://analytics. wikimedia.org/dashboards/vital-signs/#projects=all/metrics=Pageviews (click "Break Down by Site" to restrict to mobile views). For the definition of pageviews in general, refer to https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Page_view . -- Tilman Bayer Senior Analyst Wikimedia Foundation IRC (Freenode): HaeB _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
