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(a)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:
1. A removal of the per-project double-counting due to banners;
2. The removal of meta over-over-OVER-counting due to EventLogging;
3. The inclusion of Mobile App traffic;
4. 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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