very exciting, thanks Oliver and everyone else involved in this.
Just a note to clarify this point:
when the data begins coming out through stats.wikimedia.org and elsewhere, you can expect to see a substantial drop in traffic.
there won’t be any sudden change of traffic data in the existing reports and we need to figure out how to make the transition to the new definition as graceful as possible. We will publish detailed FAQ on the change whenever it becomes operational.
Dario
On Mar 4, 2015, at 10:20 AM, Oliver Keyes okeyes@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hey all,
I'm very pleased to announce that the new pageviews definition is (1) complete and (2) implemented. Prominent features include:
- A removal of the per-project double-counting due to banners;
- The removal of meta over-over-OVER-counting due to EventLogging;
- The inclusion of Mobile App traffic;
- The inclusion of projects with non-standard URL schemes.
What this means in practice is that when the data begins coming out through stats.wikimedia.org and elsewhere, you can expect to see a substantial drop in traffic. This is not a drop in traffic; it is a correction for the massive inaccuracies in the existing definition, which are causing an artificial /rise/.
So, what's next? Well, the Analytics Engineering team has to implement the functionality on a regularly running job to get the data released on a consistent basis. We also need to split out per-article pageviews and do some tagging to provide granular reports - see https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Page_view#Future_work . But the core definition is complete.
Huge thanks to Andrew Otto, Christian, Nuria, Aaron and Bob West for their contributions to this project.
-- Oliver Keyes Research Analyst Wikimedia Foundation
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