Hi James,

I was aware of the first issue, but this is the first time that I can
recall hearing about the second. See
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T121912. You may want to ask your
second question in that thread if no one responds to it here.

Good luck,

Pine
( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )

On Mon, Feb 24, 2020 at 12:17 AM James Gardner via Wikitech-l
<wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> We are a group of undergraduates working on a project using the MediaWiki
> API. While working on this project, we ran into a unique issue involving
> pageviews. When trying to pull pageview data for a particular page, the
> redirects of a page would not be counted along with the original pageviews.
> For example, the Hong Kong protests page only has direct views, and not
> views from previous titles.
>
> We attempted to use the wmflabs.org tool, but it only shows data from a
> certain date. (Example link:
> https://tools.wmflabs.org/pageviews/?project=en.wikipedia.org&platform=all-access&agent=user&start=2019-07-01&end=2020-01-25&pages=2019%E2%80%9320_Hong_Kong_protests|China
> <https://tools.wmflabs.org/pageviews/?project=en.wikipedia.org&platform=all-access&agent=user&start=2019-07-01&end=2020-01-25&pages=2019%E2%80%9320_Hong_Kong_protests%7CChina>
> )
>
> Then we attempted to use the redirects of a page and using the old page ids
> to grab the pageview data, but there was no data returned. When we
> attempted to grab data for a page that we knew would have a long past, but
> the parameter of "pvipcontinue" did not appear (
> https://www.mediawiki.org/w/api.php?action=help&modules=query%2Bpageviews).
> (Example:
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:ApiSandbox#action=query&format=json&prop=pageviews&titles=MediaWiki&pvipmetric=pageviews&pvipdays=60&pvipcontinue=
> )
>
> In the end, we are trying to get an accurate count of view for a certain
> page no matter the source.
>
> Any guidance or assistance is greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Jackie, James, Junyi, Kirby
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