On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 10:47 AM, Marcel Ruiz Forns <mforns@wikimedia.org> wrote:

Hi Edo!

The nl-wiki has 300.000-350.000 hits on the main page per day. The rest of the top10 drops quickly down to 5000 hits per day, a reasonable amount. But the 1.500.000 unique visitors per day then seems overstated, when I do a rough estimate, it looks like 1.500.000 is the total number of page views, the number of unique devices must be a lot smaller then.

It does look like this, but if you sum all view counts for the top 993 most visited articles (https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/metrics/pageviews/top/nl.wikipedia.org/all-access/2016/02/01), it adds up to 1.203.816. Also, nl.wikipedia.org has more than 1 million articles, I think the rest of articles not mentioned in the top would raise that count far above the 1.500.000. We should also consider that the majority of wikipedia visitors do 1-article-only lookups. So, I think 1.635.478 of unique devices makes sense.

Cheers

On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 1:38 PM, Edo de Roo <edoderoo@gmail.com> wrote:
Gergo Tisza makes a valid point.

The nl-wiki has 300.000-350.000 hits on the main page per day. The rest of the top10 drops quickly down to 5000 hits per day, a reasonable amount.
But the 1.500.000 unique visitors per day then seems overstated, when I do a rough estimate, it looks like 1.500.000 is the total number of page views, the number of unique devices must be a lot smaller then.

See https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/metrics/unique-devices/nl.wikipedia.org/all-sites/daily/20160201/20160201

Edo de Roo
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Hello!

The analytics team is happy to announce that the Unique Devices data is now
available to be queried programmatically via an API.

This means that getting the daily number of unique devices [1] for English
Wikipedia for the month of February 2016, for all sites (desktop and
mobile) is as easy as launching this query:

https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/metrics/unique-devices/en.wikipedia.org/all-sites/daily/20160201/20160229

You can get started by taking a look at our docs:
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Analytics/Unique_Devices#Quick_Start

If you are not familiar with the Unique Devices data the main thing you
need to know is that
is a good proxy metric to measure Unique Users, more info below.

Since 2009, the Wikimedia Foundation used comScore to report data about
unique web visitors. In January 2016, however, we decided to stop
reporting comScore numbers [2] because of certain limitations in the
methodology, these limitations translated into misreported mobile usage. We
are now ready to replace comscore numbers with the Unique Devices Dataset .
While unique devices does not equal unique visitors, it is a good proxy for
that metric, meaning that a major increase in the number of unique devices
is likely to come from an increase in distinct users. We understand that
counting uniques raises fairly big privacy concerns and we use a very
private conscious way to count unique devices, it does not include any
cookie by which your browser history can be tracked [3].

[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Unique_Devices
[2] [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/ComScore/Announcement
[3]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Unique_Devices#How_do_we_count_unique_
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Hi all!

As part of https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T130840, we need to schedule a
short downtime for Hive and Oozie. I would like to proceed with this
tomorrow if there are no objections.

I’d like to schedule this downtime for an hour starting at 14:45 UTC (10:45
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Sorry for the short notice! If this is going to cause anyone trouble let
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Very interesting, thank you!

Do you have any estimate of how much this overcounts? I checked the monthly
uniques for huwiki
<https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/metrics/unique-devices/hu.wikipedia.org/all-sites/monthly/20160301/20160331>,
and it's about 5.8 million, which is a bit higher than the total number of
internet users in Hungary (estimated to 5.2 million). This Gemius analyis
<http://www.gemius.com/all-reader-news/is-wikipedia-still-popular.html> from
a year ago claims a 30% reach for Wikipedia, which would be about 1.5
million. They use a software panel (a demographically representative group
of volunteers who installed tracking software) so they might be inaccurate
(and they only count traffic originating from Hungary I think) but probably
not by a factor of four.

On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 9:17 PM, Nuria Ruiz <nuria@wikimedia.org> wrote:

> Hello!
>
> The analytics team is happy to announce that the Unique Devices data is
> now available to be queried programmatically via an API.
>
> This means that getting the daily number of unique devices [1] for English
> Wikipedia for the month of February 2016, for all sites (desktop and
> mobile) is as easy as launching this query:
>
>
> https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/metrics/unique-devices/en.wikipedia.org/all-sites/daily/20160201/20160229
>
> You can get started by taking a look at our docs:
> https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Analytics/Unique_Devices#Quick_Start
>
> If you are not familiar with the Unique Devices data the main thing you
> need to know is that
> is a good proxy metric to measure Unique Users, more info below.
>
> Since 2009, the Wikimedia Foundation used comScore to report data about
> unique web visitors. In January 2016, however, we decided to stop
> reporting comScore numbers [2] because of certain limitations in the
> methodology, these limitations translated into misreported mobile usage. We
> are now ready to replace comscore numbers with the Unique Devices Dataset .
> While unique devices does not equal unique visitors, it is a good proxy for
> that metric, meaning that a major increase in the number of unique devices
> is likely to come from an increase in distinct users. We understand that
> counting uniques raises fairly big privacy concerns and we use a very
> private conscious way to count unique devices, it does not include any
> cookie by which your browser history can be tracked [3].
>
>
> [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Unique_Devices
> [2] [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/ComScore/Announcement
> [3]
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Unique_Devices#How_do_we_count_unique_
> devices.3F
>
>
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Here's another useful link to a form that helps you construct the API call:
https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/?doc#!/Unique_devices_data/get_metrics_unique_devices_project_access_site_granularity_start_end

On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 12:17 PM, Nuria Ruiz <nuria@wikimedia.org> wrote:

> Hello!
>
> The analytics team is happy to announce that the Unique Devices data is
> now available to be queried programmatically via an API.
>
> This means that getting the daily number of unique devices [1] for English
> Wikipedia for the month of February 2016, for all sites (desktop and
> mobile) is as easy as launching this query:
>
>
> https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/metrics/unique-devices/en.wikipedia.org/all-sites/daily/20160201/20160229
>
> You can get started by taking a look at our docs:
> https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Analytics/Unique_Devices#Quick_Start
>
> If you are not familiar with the Unique Devices data the main thing you
> need to know is that
> is a good proxy metric to measure Unique Users, more info below.
>
> Since 2009, the Wikimedia Foundation used comScore to report data about
> unique web visitors. In January 2016, however, we decided to stop
> reporting comScore numbers [2] because of certain limitations in the
> methodology, these limitations translated into misreported mobile usage. We
> are now ready to replace comscore numbers with the Unique Devices Dataset .
> While unique devices does not equal unique visitors, it is a good proxy for
> that metric, meaning that a major increase in the number of unique devices
> is likely to come from an increase in distinct users. We understand that
> counting uniques raises fairly big privacy concerns and we use a very
> private conscious way to count unique devices, it does not include any
> cookie by which your browser history can be tracked [3].
>
>
> [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Unique_Devices
> [2] [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/ComScore/Announcement
> [3]
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Unique_Devices#How_do_we_count_unique_
> devices.3F
>
>
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