Hey Phoebe,
On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 12:40 PM, phoebe ayers phoebe.wiki@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 1:04 PM, Dan Andreescu dandreescu@wikimedia.org wrote:
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.
I'm not sure how ComScore estimated unique visitors/people, and whether they estimated unique users/people or unique devices. I'd like to point out that the current approach for counting uniques that Dan has referred to will tell you the unique device count, and not unique user/people count. There may be big differences in those numbers, for example, I access Wikipedia with at least two devices everyday and I know I'm not unique. ;) Erik Zachte and I have had some very early discussions about how to go from the unique device number to unique user number, but we are nowhere close to any solution. In the mean time, I suggest replacing unique users with unique devices in your communications.
Good luck with your presentation. :)
Best, Leila
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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