​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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