May I suggest leaving a notice somewhere, like the signpost so people know.

Reguyla

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------ Original message------ From: Oliver Keyes Date: Wed, Mar 4, 2015 1:20 PM To: A mailing list for the Analytics Team at WMF and everybody who has an interest in Wikipedia and analytics.; Subject:[Analytics] [Announce] new Pageviews definition complete and implemented

Hey all,

I'm very pleased to announce that the new pageviews definition is (1) complete and (2) implemented. Prominent features include:

1. A removal of the per-project double-counting due to banners; 2. The removal of meta over-over-OVER-counting due to EventLogging; 3. The inclusion of Mobile App traffic; 4. The inclusion of projects with non-standard URL schemes.

What this means in practice is that when the data begins coming out through stats.wikimedia.org and elsewhere, you can expect to see a substantial drop in traffic. This is not a drop in traffic; it is a correction for the massive inaccuracies in the existing definition, which are causing an artificial /rise/.

So, what's next? Well, the Analytics Engineering team has to implement the functionality on a regularly running job to get the data released on a consistent basis. We also need to split out per-article pageviews and do some tagging to provide granular reports - see https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Page_view#Future_work . But the core definition is complete.

Huge thanks to Andrew Otto, Christian, Nuria, Aaron and Bob West for their contributions to this project.