I'll let someone more knowledgeable about current practices then me answer
that question to a better extent so that I don't butcher it but I know that
some of that info gets in with differing levels of sampling and filtering
and retention. The UA data, for example, is how we know information like
what browsers visit the site (
).
James
James Alexander
Legal and Community Advocacy
Wikimedia Foundation
(415) 839-6885 x6716 @jamesofur
On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 11:45 PM, ENWP Pine <deyntestiss(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
Thanks James.
No UA data is recorded from any platform for non-edit actions like
pageviews and watchlisting, even if an editor is logged in, right?
Pine
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From: jalexander(a)wikimedia.org
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2014 23:36:01 -0700
Subject: Re: [WikimediaMobile] Mobile and CheckUser (Was [mobile-l]
Wikipedia App User Agents)
To: deyntestiss(a)hotmail.com
CC: analytics(a)lists.wikimedia.org; mobile-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
The mobile apps are definitely in the wild, my understanding (from some
checks in the past and from the discussion in the other thread) was that it
was just the 'normal' useragent for the phone with the addition of a
WikipediaMobile identifier at the front (so that you could tell it was from
the app). They aren't very common but I have seen some which I knew were
app driven.
The reason this came up was that one of the discussions that came up in
that other thread was to rewrite the user agent to be less unique which
would make it harder for CUs to tell users apart (especially once they
found out, which they often do and these discussions are on public lists).
The compromise that Yuvi proposed was to send a 'special' user agent for
checkuser so that it didn't lose the fingerprinting ability as much.
James
James Alexander
Legal and Community Advocacy
Wikimedia Foundation
(415) 839-6885 x6716 @jamesofur
On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 11:27 PM, ENWP Pine <deyntestiss(a)hotmail.com>wrote;wrote:
I got the impression from this discussion that the mobile apps aren't
currently in use so the CUs have had no experience working with them. It
sounds like I was mistaken.
Toby, what UA data do CUs currently see from edits made through the mobile
apps?
CUs, is the information that you're currently getting from edits from the
new mobile apps a good balance the concerns raised previously in this
discussion?
Pine
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2014 15:36:16 -0700
From: Toby Negrin <tnegrin(a)wikimedia.org>
To: "A mailing list for the Analytics Team at WMF and everybody who
has an interest in Wikipedia and analytics."
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Cc: mobile-l <mobile-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>rg>, Oliver Keyes
<ironholds(a)gmail.com>om>, Yuvi Panda <yuvipanda(a)gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Analytics] [WikimediaMobile] Mobile and CheckUser (Was
[mobile-l] Wikipedia App User Agents)
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Hey folks -- we aren't considering changing any of the data that goes
into
checkuser. That tool will be unchanged.
This discussion only concerns backend logging EventLogging and page view
analytics.
thanks,
-Toby
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