Hi Andrew, 

Thanks for investigating/following up. We are having the desired effect then: organizations which rely on Wikipedia traffic to generate interest in their educational content, to recognize that was happening. 

Out of curiosity who was asking? If it was someone well used on Wikimedia projects either in GLAM (i.e. NARA or Smithsonian) or in your news connections (maybe Washington Post?), we would be happy to include them in our research. 

Cheers, 

Alex

On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 10:49 AM, Dario Taraborelli <dtaraborelli@wikimedia.org> wrote:
hey Andrew, 

we're monitoring the impact of this change (which we rolled out on 2/22) with a number of external partners (BBC, Le Monde, JSTOR, Elsevier) and we're planning to write a full report in April. Elsevier reported that in June visible inbound traffic from Wikipedia dropped by 99% in June 2015. This change should fix this, while preserving the privacy of our readers browsing content over HTTPS.


Dario


On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 7:20 AM, Andrew Lih <andrew.lih@gmail.com> wrote:
Thanks James, Dan, Chris and all for the quick answer.

Nice to see this change. As Alex Stinson pointed out in the Phabricator discussion, it helps with our GLAM partners so they can keep tracking how much referral traffic comes from WM projects.

-Andrew


On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 10:02 AM, Chris Steipp <csteipp@wikimedia.org> wrote:

On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 6:58 AM, Dan Andreescu <dandreescu@wikimedia.org> wrote:
I think this is more of an ops question, cc-ing them.

On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 9:55 AM, Andrew Lih <andrew.lih@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi folks, I got this note from an external organization that wanted to know more about what Wikimedia changed so that they are now accurate getting referral info. Any pointers?

"Wikipedia was implementing a fix so it would not be “dark traffic" in the analytics reports. This has been happening for the past 10 months. Just noticed today that Wikipedia is showing again in the referrals report.”

 Thanks.


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