Maybe the high value in October (45M) has
something to do with the last
changes in
?
On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 9:25 PM, Nuria Ruiz <nuria(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
This is documented now here:
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Analytics/PageviewAPI#Gotchas
On Tue, Nov 8, 2016 at 7:25 AM, Vipul Naik <vipulnaik1(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hi Joseph,
>
> Thanks for the clarification.
>
> Any ideas why this number is much higher for some months? In
> particular, on desktop, it's high in the months of July to September 2015
> (around 10 million, compared to the usual 5 million) and then high again in
> October 2016 (45 million, about 10x the usual value).
>
> Data is from
http://wikipediaviews.org/displayviewsformultiplemonths
> .php?page=-&allmonths=allmonths&drilldown=all which summarizes
> results from the Wikimedia API (and stats.grok.se for data before
> July 2015).
>
> Vipul
>
> On Tue, Nov 8, 2016 at 3:46 AM, Joseph Allemandou <
> jallemandou(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
>
>> Hello Issa,
>>
>> Thank you for your question.
>> The very high number of views of the "-" page is explained by this
>> dash value being used as a special value for "no page title found"
when
>> extracting titles from urls.
>> We definitely should document this in the API, creating this task:
>>
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T150249
>> Best
>> Joseph
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Nov 8, 2016 at 12:28 AM, Issa Rice <riceissa(a)gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Dear Analytics Mailing List,
>>>
>>> Recently while querying pageviews of various pages, I discovered that
>>> the page whose title is a single hyphen character (i.e. with the
>>> title
>>> "-", with URL <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/->, which
redirects to
>>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyphen-minus>) receives an unusually
>>> high
>>> number of pageviews under the Pageview API. Taking October 2015 as an
>>> example, the page received 5.4 million pageviews during that month
>>> according to the API:
>>> <https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/metrics/pageviews/per-art
>>> icle/en.wikipedia/desktop/user/-/daily/20151001/20151031>.
>>>
>>> However, according the stats.grok.se (which was still operational
>>> in the
>>> same month), the page received only 1209 pageviews:
>>> <http://stats.grok.se/en/201510/->.
>>>
>>> Looking at the tabulation of pageviews on Wikipedia Views, the
>>> increase
>>> in pageviews for this page coincides with the change to the Pageview
>>> API in July 2015:
>>> <http://wikipediaviews.org/displayviewsformultiplemonths.php
>>> ?page=-&allmonths=allmonths&drilldown=all>.
>>>
>>> As I understand, page titles must be URL-encoded before the query,
>>> but the URL-encoding of "-" is itself.
>>>
>>> I looked at the API documentation but did not see this behavior
>>> listed,
>>> so I am wondering where these numbers are coming from.
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>> Issa
>>>
>>>
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>>
>>
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