Hi Hassan,

In 2008, when the original file format was conceived that fourth column contained 'total bytes transferred'. I have never seen anyone use that number.

So in derivative and aggregated versions that number has been set to zero for a long time. In the third incarnation of this data stream it's still there just to not break client scripts which may expect it.

Cheers,

Erik Zachte

-----Original Message----- From: Analytics [mailto:analytics-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of hafez Sent: Monday, April 18, 2016 15:49 To: analytics@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: [Analytics] Problem in Pageviews Files

Hi, thanks for the great work.

I have a question about data files available at https://dumps.wikimedia.org/other/pageviews/

As I understood, in each line, the third column is number of pageviews and the fourth one is its total traffic. But the fourth column is always zero! Did I make a mistake in understanding the meaning of these numbers?

For example in line 346 of file

https://dumps.wikimedia.org/other/pageviews/2016/2016-04/projectviews-201604...

we see "en - 4271631 0" which means there were 4271631 views for that project, with zero traffic!

Thanks in advance, Hassan

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