Hi Angelina,

I don't think there's any (legal) way of tracking Wikipedia traffic.

All Wikipedia traffic data is protected by WMF's privacy policy[1]

and handled accordingly.

We do, however, provide public sanitized high-level statistics on page

views for Wikipedia in various ways (not to specific companies or

organizations, but rather to the world at large). What "Next Big Sound"

is probably doing, is consuming one of those public sources, but we

don't know which one.

These are 2 of the main sources this company might be grabbing stats from:

https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Analytics/AQS/Pageviews

https://dumps.wikimedia.org/

Cheers!

[1] https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Privacy_policy

On Fri, Mar 2, 2018 at 4:19 PM, Marcel Ruiz Forns <mforns@wikimedia.org> wrote:

Oh, forgot the subscribe link, here:

https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics

Cheers!

On Fri, Mar 2, 2018 at 4:18 PM, Marcel Ruiz Forns <mforns@wikimedia.org> wrote:

Hi Angelina,

I'm the administrator of this mailing-list. Just to let you know that your email was automatically filtered out by the mailing-list bot because your address is not subscribed to it. I just unblocked it, so yopu will receive a response in short. However, please subscribe to send further emails to the list.

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On Wed, Feb 28, 2018 at 5:04 PM, BTShasSTOLENmyHEART <zangeliniz@gmail.com> wrote:

Hello,

I recently spoke with "Next Big Sound" which is a company that tracks Wikipedia page views on certain artists. They informed me that they got details of the views directly from Wikipedia (because I had emailed them that the View counts mentioned on Wikipedia and Next Big Sound show a major discrepancy). There are rumors flying about saying that the information only gathered is from Desktop Views, in which the counts are extremely similar. Is there any way you can confirm this as true? Or is there another method you also count that is gathered for other companies that collect views? I know you have no idea of what Next Big Sound is presenting to the world wide audience, but I wanted to know if you can explain what information is given to Next Big Sound in terms of data. Thank you

Sincerely,

Angelina Zamora

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