On 5 December 2014 at 22:39, Federico Leva (Nemo) <nemowiki(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Andrew Gray, 05/12/2014 21:08:
Which leads to an obvious question - on other projects, such as enwiki
or frwiki, have we accounted for a drop in*file page* views? What do
overall pageview numbers look like using, say, just mainspace/ns0?
Note, however, that file [description] requests didn't simply vanish; some
are being counted as article/page requests instead.
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/multimedia/2014-November/000948.html
This is certainly true - if I follow the link in that email it will be
a mainspace hit and counted as such, not a file-page hit.
But if I'm viewing the original page and click the image, the page
doesn't reload and (presumably) thus it won't be counted as a new hit
on the underlying mainspace page. (I think. Can someone confirm this
one?)
So we're still going to get a steady "drain" of overall hits, even if
some are still being counted in a different way.
Andrew.
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