On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 6:08 AM, aaron shaw <aaronshaw(a)northwestern.edu> wrote:
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Also relevant to Reem's original concern and the subsequent discussion here: page
views accrue to redirects even when the *content* that is viewed exists on the page that
is the target of the redirect. Thus even a page that gets few/zero edits may be viewed via
a redirect in a way that the usual page view data does not account for very precisely.
Related Phabricator tasks BTW:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T128495
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T121912
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