companies that collect views?
Companies that do this such us comScore do it by getting their participants
install (normally desktop software) in their machines and tracking page
views that these participants do. It was the case until recently that
comScore only would use desktop statistics (that seems to agree with your
findings) when reporting, for example, unique users. Because of this fact,
their numbers (that did not included mobile usage) were largely incorrect.
Please see:
On Fri, Mar 2, 2018 at 8:41 AM, Marcel Ruiz Forns <mforns(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
Sorry, forwarding to Analytics...
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 5:16 PM, Marcel Ruiz Forns <mforns(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
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(a)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(a)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
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Thanks!
On Wed, Feb 28, 2018 at 5:04 PM, BTShasSTOLENmyHEART <
zangeliniz(a)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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