Dear mr Haar,

Thanks for bringing this to our attention.

The report you refer to has been discontinued since August 2015. (see page notice)

https://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/squids/SquidReportOperatingSystems.htm

The successor based on new definitions, and methodology is at

https://analytics.wikimedia.org/dashboards/browsers/#all-sites-by-os

I forward you message to the WMF Analytics Team who maintain these stats.

Best regards,

Erik Zachte

From: Haar, Dirk [mailto:Dirk.Haar@partner.commerzbank.com]
Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2016 11:22
To: 'ezachte@wikimedia.org'
Subject: https://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/squids/SquidReportOperatingSystems.htm

Hi Erik!

Would you mind to make a change on the OS report page?

I always wondered about values for Linux Mint in comparision to Ubuntu there, and now found the reason in

Clem's blog entry here (see "Wikimedia stats").

What you show as Linux Mint are only those version up to Mint 10.

Current version is 18, and since versio 11, the user agent you (or better let's say "Wikimedia stats") evaluate

is shown as "Ubuntu". There should at least be a note at this line, other distros may be concerned, too.

(Btw., that remembers older browser usage statistics, when websites couldn't deal with Netscape Communicator

so that you'd had to switch the user agent to "Internet Explorer", shifting the usage values complety.)

Best regards,

Dirk Haar