Dear Analytics mailing list,
I am working, along with Issa Rice (cc'ed) on an analysis of changes to
Wikipedia pageviews since December 2007, when pageview statistics first
started being maintained. To help with our analysis, we collected key
events related to changes to user experience on the site as well as to
statistics availabilty and measurement. We've recorded our findings on this
page in Issa's userspace:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Riceissa/Timeline_of_Wikipedia_analytics
I'd appreciate it if you can highlight:
(a) Factual errors in the material currently in the timeline
(b) Missing events that you think should belong in the timeline, with
regards to the availability of statistics as well as any other events that
affected user experience significantly.
In addition, I had the following question: In the Wikimedia per-article
pageviews API
https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/#!/Pageviews_data/get_
metrics_pageviews_per_article_project_access_agent_article_g
ranularity_start_end, where do Wikipedia Zero pageviews get recorded? Do
they go under mobile-web, or mobile-app, or neither?
https://wikitech.
wikimedia.org/wiki/Analytics/Data/Pageviews
<https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Analytics/Data/Pageview> gives some
information on how the underlying pageviews are recorded in the pageviews
dataset, but I wasn't clear on how the pageview REST API processes that
data.
Thank you!
Vipul
NOTE: We don't intend to move the page to Wikipedia's main space, as we
know it won't meet the notability criterion. The user space was just a
convenient place to store it while taking advantage of MediaWiki's syntax
and Wikipedia's templates.