hey Andrew,
we're monitoring the impact of this change (which we rolled out on 2/22)
with a number of external partners (BBC, Le Monde, JSTOR, Elsevier) and
we're planning to write a full report in April. Elsevier reported that in
June visible inbound traffic from Wikipedia dropped by 99% in June 2015.
This change should fix this, while preserving the privacy of our readers
browsing content over HTTPS.
Background:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Wikimedia_referrer_policy
Dario
On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 7:20 AM, Andrew Lih <andrew.lih(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Thanks James, Dan, Chris and all for the quick
answer.
Nice to see this change. As Alex Stinson pointed out in the Phabricator
discussion, it helps with our GLAM partners so they can keep tracking how
much referral traffic comes from WM projects.
-Andrew
On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 10:02 AM, Chris Steipp <csteipp(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
Hi Dan,
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T87276
On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 6:58 AM, Dan Andreescu <dandreescu(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
I think this is more of an ops question, cc-ing
them.
On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 9:55 AM, Andrew Lih <andrew.lih(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi folks, I got this note from an external
organization that wanted to
know more about what Wikimedia changed so that they are now accurate
getting referral info. Any pointers?
"Wikipedia was implementing a fix so it would not be “dark traffic" in
the analytics reports. This has been happening for the past 10 months. Just
noticed today that Wikipedia is showing again in the referrals report.”
Thanks.
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