You should also note that donate-wiki pageviews are making it into the
counts (again, the definition was designed to exclude these).

Whose job is it to review pageviews and update the definition when
issues are found?

On 17 August 2015 at 10:32, Oliver Keyes <okeyes@wikimedia.org> wrote:
> Just to clarify; there is no need to ask me before making changes
> (obviously I find my approval for pageviews changes being sought
> incredibly flattering, but I am not the only person involved in this
> project ;p). What I'm more driving towards is directly informing
> customers when the definition is adapted.
>
> On 17 August 2015 at 10:31, Oliver Keyes <okeyes@wikimedia.org> wrote:
>> Excellent; thank you.
>>
>> On 17 August 2015 at 04:42, Joseph Allemandou <jallemandou@wikimedia.org> wrote:
>>> Oliver,
>>>
>>> It was a mistake from me to add the 'outreach' subdomain without asking you.
>>>
>>> From a documentation perspective, the analytics team uses that place to
>>> document changes:
>>> https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Analytics/Data/Webrequest and I didn't
>>> know about up-to-date documentation you sent.
>>>
>>> Tickets have been created to both correct the bug and update the
>>> documentation pages.
>>>
>>> Joseph
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sun, Aug 16, 2015 at 8:47 PM, Oliver Keyes <okeyes@wikimedia.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Ah, I see the problem; someone patched it and never documented it.
>>>>
>>>> We have documentation at
>>>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Page_view/Generalised_filters
>>>> of the generalised filters. There is also a log, on
>>>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Page_view, of changes to the
>>>> pageview definition.
>>>>
>>>> The intent behind both the transparent definition and the log is to
>>>> ensure that we know what is going /in/ the definition.
>>>>
>>>> In this case, somebody has patched the definition
>>>>
>>>> (https://github.com/wikimedia/analytics-refinery-source/commit/cc0b6ed7e4f403eaa82235ec6a0f27152b0c2710)
>>>> to include traffic from outreach.wikimedia.org - a site that was very
>>>> deliberately and very explicitly excluded from the definition as it
>>>> was written.
>>>>
>>>> There is no explanation of why this change was made, there is no
>>>> documentation of this change even existing outside the actual Java....
>>>> can someone please explain what this is for, and update all the
>>>> documentation to reflect that? And then could people be very, very
>>>> clear in future that it is expected there be a log of alterations you
>>>> make to high-level KPIs beyond the, you know, commit logs.
>>>>
>>>> On 16 August 2015 at 14:32, Madhumitha Viswanathan
>>>> <mviswanathan@wikimedia.org> wrote:
>>>> > The new one.
>>>> >
>>>> > The code that generates it -
>>>> >
>>>> > -
>>>> >
>>>> > https://github.com/wikimedia/analytics-refinery/blob/master/hive/pageview/hourly/create_pageview_hourly_table.hql
>>>> > -
>>>> >
>>>> > https://github.com/wikimedia/analytics-refinery/tree/master/oozie/pageview/hourly
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> > On Sun, Aug 16, 2015 at 11:01 AM, Oliver Keyes <okeyes@wikimedia.org>
>>>> > wrote:
>>>> >>
>>>> >> Is the pageviews_hourly table meant to contain pageviews according to
>>>> >> the new or old definition? If old, where can I find aggregates for the
>>>> >> new one?
>>>> >>
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