On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 1:04 PM, Dan Andreescu dandreescu@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hi Phoebe,
We can't use the comScore numbers any more because they were not tracking mobile devices. Since a lot of our traffic is now coming from mobile devices, comScore numbers were showing a sharp decline, but this was not a reflection of reality.
Right, I thought this was the case but didn't know the current state of affairs. (Missed the announcement from Kevin).
We've been working on a way to measure uniques
that's sensitive to privacy, and we're very close to release that data, we're just working on the blog post now.
Awesome, that is great to hear! Congratulations!
One of the drawbacks is that we
can't report on a single total number across all our projects.
Hmm. That's unfortunate for understanding reach -- if nothing else, the idea that "half a billion people access Wikipedia" (eg from earlier comscore reports) was a PR-friendly way of giving an idea of the scale of our readership. But I can see why it would be tricky to measure. Since this is the research list: I suspect there's still lots to be done in understanding just how multilingual people use different language editions of Wikipedia, too.
We'll have
an announcement shortly but until then I'll see if we can share the numbers with you privately. Since we can't compute one total number, would you give us a list of wikis that you would like numbers for?
I was thinking about total numbers, but for this particular project maybe English, Spanish & Arabic -- I'm interested in global languages. Thank you!
Phoebe
Dan
On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 12:52 PM, phoebe ayers phoebe.wiki@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all,
Can someone help me with my failing memory and remind me what the current state of affairs is re: unique visitors -- we're not counting them anymore? We are counting them but not via comscore? Something else?
Just putting together a talk and wanted the latest numbers.
thanks, -- Phoebe
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