May I suggest leaving a notice somewhere, like the signpost so people know.

 

Reguyla

 

 

 

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From: Oliver Keyes

Date: Wed, Mar 4, 2015 1:20 PM

To: A mailing list for the Analytics Team at WMF and everybody who has an interest in Wikipedia and analytics.;

Subject:[Analytics] [Announce] new Pageviews definition complete and implemented

 

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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