Hi Gheorghe,
Thanks for your message and support :)
The reason the page had no views before 4/29/2016is because its name has
changed that day [1], and we collect pageviews by name.
You can find the raw data using direct API calls ([2] for new name, [3] for
old name, only capital J differs ...), but I have not found a way to view
it properly with the pageviews tool.
Being able to request titles that are not current pages could be an
interesting feature request -- Ping @MusikAnimal ;)
Cheers !
Joseph
[1]
https://fr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Batman_v_Superman_%3A_L%27Aube_d…
[2]
https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/metrics/pageviews/per-article/fr.wikipedi…
[3]
https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/metrics/pageviews/per-article/fr.wikipedi…
On Thu, Apr 13, 2017 at 4:10 PM, Gheorghe Postelnicu <
gheorghe.postelnicu(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hello,
First of all, thank you for providing such a wealth of information
regarding Wikipedia usage. This is really interesting.
I was browsing the pageviews visualization provided by wmflabs and noticed
a particular case which surprised. The FR page for *Batman v Superman *seems
to have received no visit whasoever before 4/29/2016:
https://tools.wmflabs.org/pageviews/?project=fr.
wikipedia.org&platform=all-access&agent=user&range=last-
year&pages=Batman_v_Superman_:_L%27Aube_de_la_justice
However, the page existed as early as 2014:
https://fr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Batman_v_
Superman_:_L%27Aube_de_la_justice&dir=prev&action=history
and similar pages in IT or ES show quite a lot of views:
https://tools.wmflabs.org/pageviews/?project=it.
wikipedia.org&platform=all-access&agent=user&range=last-
year&pages=Batman_v_Superman:_Dawn_of_Justice
https://tools.wmflabs.org/pageviews/?project=es.
wikipedia.org&platform=all-access&agent=user&range=last-
year&pages=Batman_v_Superman:_Dawn_of_Justice
Any idea why the complete lack of pageviews for the FR page? Even if for
some reason the page was not very popular in FR, shouldn't it have received
at least some views?
Many thanks in advance for any ideas,
Gheorghe
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