The answer is a bit confusing, so I just spent a few hours updating the documentation of our datasets: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Analytics/Data. The link for the pageviews dataset is now: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Analytics/Data/Pageviews
To answer your question directly, .q is actually the project abbreviation for wikiquote. This is lightly inspired by the syntax for inter-wiki links, but it's explained in detail in this section:
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Analytics/Data/Pageviews#Contained_data
The .m usually means access via the mobile site, unless .m.m appears in which case it could be something else, that's also described here in detail:
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Analytics/Data/Pageviews#Disambiguating_...
If you're still confused after reading that and trying it out, let us know.
On Mon, Aug 15, 2016 at 12:54 PM, Aubrey Rembert arembert@pandora.com wrote:
our team is trying to distiguish mobile pageviews from non-mobile pageviews in the new data feed https://dumps.wikimedia. org/other/pageviews/. we are under the impression that the .m and .zero page view type extensions are page views of the mobile site. is this correct? what does the extension .q mean? also, can we safely assume that if a page view has a language but no extension (.m, .zero, .q, etc…), then it is a view of the desktop site?
thanks!
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