Agree with everyone else, this is great!
I just have a question. Is this an evolving thing in a sense that more
data sources will be used to define page views? Let me give an example.
Reading Web team is working on a new web app prototype that caches pages
which can be viewed without hitting the back end. Since no request is
made, no page view will be recorded. We may add an event logging event to
record a page view which would be another source of information for this
API end point.
Baha
On Tue, 17 Nov 2015 02:50:20 +0500, Dan Andreescu
<dandreescu(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Dear Data Enthusiasts,
In collaboration with the Services team, the analytics team wishes to
announce a public Pageview API
<https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/?doc#!/Pageviews_data/get_metrics_pageviews_per_article_project_access_agent_article_granularity_start_end>.
For an example of what kind of UIs someone could build with it, check out
this excellent demo <http://analytics.wmflabs.org/demo/pageview-api>
(code)
<https://gist.github.com/marcelrf/49738d14116fd547fe6d#file-article-comparison-html>
.
The API can tell you how many times a wiki article or project is viewed
over a certain period. You can break that down by views from web
crawlers
or humans, and by desktop, mobile site, or mobile app. And you can find
the 1000 most viewed articles
<https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/metrics/pageviews/top/es.wikipedia/all-access/2015/11/11>
on any project, on any given day or month that we have data for. We
currently have data back through October and we will be able to go back
to
May 2015 when the loading jobs are all done. For more information, take
a
look at the user docs
<https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Analytics/AQS/Pageview_API>.
After many requests from the community, we were really happy to finally
make this our top priority and get it done. Huge thanks to Gabriel,
Marko,
Petr, and Eric from Services, Alexandros and all of Ops really, Henrik
for
maintaining stats.grok, and, of course, the many community members who
have
been so patient with us all this time.
The Research team’s Article Recommender tool
<http://recommend.wmflabs.org/>
already uses the API to rank pages and determine relative importance.
Wiki
Education Foundation’s dashboard <https://dashboard.wikiedu.org/> is
going
to be using it to count how many times an article has been viewed since a
student edited it. And there are other grand plans for this data like
“article finder”, which will find low-rated articles with a lot of
pageviews; this can be used by editors looking for high-impact work.
Join
the fun, we’re happy to help get you started and listen to your ideas.
Also, if you find bugs or want to suggest improvements, please create a
task in Phabricator and tag it with #Analytics-Backlog
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/analytics-backlog/>.
So what’s next? We can think of too many directions to go into, for
pageview data and Wikimedia project data, in general. We need to work
with
you to make a great plan for the next few quarters. Please chime in here
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T112956> with your needs.
Team Analytics
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Baha