I have spoken with Erik Zachte about this --  who confirmed that mobile views are not being counted on a per-article basis.

Indeed, that documentation does point out the existence of an "*.mw" key(s) for such views. However, if you download one of those raw pagecount files and 'grep' for that string, you'll find it appears exactly once, where the number aggregate number of mobile views over all articles is counted (i.e., one mega-aggregate number, not the several million article granularity ones we would expect/like).

Thanks, -AW


On 09/07/2014 02:34 PM, Oliver Keyes wrote:

Er. That's not true, I don't think. See the notes at
http://dumps.wikimedia.org/other/pagecounts-raw/ - wkimedia mobile
pageviews are counted, just in a distinct way, because webstatscollector
(the software that powers page-by-page-PV-collection) looks primarily at
aggregating the entire URLs.

On 7 September 2014 13:41, Andrew G. West <west.andrew.g@gmail.com
<mailto:west.andrew.g@gmail.com>> wrote:

    Related:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/__User_talk:West.andrew.g/__Popular_pages#STICKY:_On_the___Non-Reporting_of_Mobile_Views
    <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:West.andrew.g/Popular_pages#STICKY:_On_the_Non-Reporting_of_Mobile_Views>

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    On 09/07/2014 03:27 AM, Pine W wrote:

        Good to hear. I note that according to the Wikimedia Report Card
        that
        total pageviews are holding fairly steady even as Comscore reports a
        decline in unique visitors. If pageviews are holding steady
        despite the
        reuse of Wikipedia article summaries in search engines, I think
        this is
        a net positive. If we have more confidence in the pageview data
        than in
        the Comscore data then I am inclined to believe that the net
        situation
        is significantly better than what the Comscore data alone would
        suggest.

        Pine

        On Sat, Sep 6, 2014 at 9:16 AM, Aaron Halfaker
        <ahalfaker@wikimedia.org <mailto:ahalfaker@wikimedia.org>
        <mailto:ahalfaker@wikimedia.__org
        <mailto:ahalfaker@wikimedia.org>>> wrote:

             FYI, this plan will involve a public proposal and
        discussion.  :)
               More to come.


             On Sat, Sep 6, 2014 at 6:52 AM, Oliver Keyes
        <okeyes@wikimedia.org <mailto:okeyes@wikimedia.org>
             <mailto:okeyes@wikimedia.org
        <mailto:okeyes@wikimedia.org>>> wrote:

                 They key word is "developing": we don't have it yet.
        We'd like
                 to have a proper discussion of the privacy implications
        around
                 it before we do so.


                 On 6 September 2014 03:40, Pine W <wiki.pine@gmail.com
        <mailto:wiki.pine@gmail.com>
                 <mailto:wiki.pine@gmail.com
        <mailto:wiki.pine@gmail.com>>> wrote:

                     Dario and company,

                     I heard a portion of the discussion during the
        September
                     metrics meeting about Comscore saying that Wikimedia
                     globally has a significant decline in unique
        visitors but
                     this does not take into account mobile users.

                     I thought that Wikimedia was developing an internal
        way of
                     measuring unique visitors and was using Comscore
        data mainly
                     to validate the internal data.

                     Can you give an update on what the internal data
        shows about
                     global uniques?

                     Pine

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