Thanks Oliver!
The thing I'm really looking forward to — hopefully this is on the medium-term roadmap for stats.wikimedia.org? — is an API for article-level view data based on this new definition.
-Sage
On Wed, 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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