>Can it be that search bots and other obscure automated processes are distorting this data, and are there ways to filter that out in order to know where are the actual humans interested in a >Wikimedia project?
Short answer: yes. 
Now, the distortion bot-wise we estimate is < 5% overall.  We did some research in order to quantify this when we rolled out our unique devices metric. Take a look: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Analytics/Data_Lake/Traffic/Pageviews/Bots_Research



On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 7:25 AM, Francisco Dans <fdans@wikimedia.org> wrote:
Hey Quim!

These are pageviews, so our aim is to count only user-originated traffic as such, but there are lots of bots and automated traffic pretending to be users, most commonly by utilizing fake browser user agents. We're close to starting a push to better identify these undercover bots, which you can take a look at in T138207.

Thank you for taking a look and for your comments :)
Fran

On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 9:31 AM, Quim Gil <qgil@wikimedia.org> wrote:
Thank you for this feature. Maybe the data was available before, but it's the maps who made me click.  :)


Turns out that China is a huge follower of Catalan Wikipedia. ;)  Can it be that search bots and other obscure automated processes are distorting this data, and are there ways to filter that out in order to know where are the actual humans interested in a Wikimedia project?


On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 11:15 PM, Nuria Ruiz <nuria@wikimedia.org> wrote:
Hello from Analytics team:

Just a brief note to announce that Wikistats 2.0 includes data about pageviews per project per country for the current month. 

Take a look, pageviews for spanish wikipedia this current month: 

Data is also available programatically vi APIs:


We will be deploying small UI tweaks during this week but please explore and let us know what you think.

Thanks,

Nuria


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