Hi all,
I think the time has come to disable the traffic reports based on webstatscollector (2.0)
data.
See
http://stats.wikimedia.org/cgi-bin/search_portal.pl?search=breakdown+of+tra…
- These reports are using outdated definitions for page views.
- The scripts haven't seen any maintenance for years.
Even with the new pageview API still in development more and more these reports are
misreporting reality anyway.
There was a period were I felt imperfect reports were better than no reports at all, and I
warned about unresolved bugs in the report header.
But the anomaly reported below served as a wake-up-call for me that mismatches are
intolerably high anyway.
So I propose to put up a notice on the latest reports that those were the last release,
and WMF is working to deliver a new infrastructure in the form of a pageview API, ETA
later this year.
See also
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T44259
Whether WMF will also assume responsibility for building new reports on top of that API
(and if so in what form) is another matter, but first things first. Current focus is on
providing that API, as it should be IMO.
Any thoughts?
Erik Zachte
From: Erik Zachte [mailto:erikzachte@infodisiac.com]
Sent: Friday, July 24, 2015 17:58
To: 'Андрей Лавров'
Subject: RE: Wikimedia Traffic Analysis Report - Operating Systems
Hey Andrey,
You're totally right of course. And not the only to notice. These traffic reports
haven't seen much (maintenance) love lately. I'm tempted to disable them. I'm
looking forward to the upcoming WMF pageview API as much more promising platform to build
better reports: more up to date, more robust, more flexible. Of course there is always a
hazard to stop maintaining a solution before a replacement is really there, but this is
what actually happened long ago.
Thanks for heads-up.
Erik
From: Андрей Лавров [mailto:andrey.lavrov@wancastle.com]
Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2015 11:09
To: erikzachte(a)infodisiac.com
Subject: Wikimedia Traffic Analysis Report - Operating Systems
Dear Erik,
Please, improve your analysis reports by including Chrome OS statistics.
Chrome OS has about 10% market share in US now. Almost all chromebooks are online every
day. It is very strange to not see Chrome OS market share in your reports.
Best regards,
Andrey Lavrov