Hi folks,
As I mentioned a week or two ago, I am trying to model historical article view rates of English Wikipedia. One of the sources of data for this is:
http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesUsagePageRequest.htm
I was wondering what the specific definition of "page request" is in this context, in a way that I can replicate the count on current data using the sampled access logs that I have.
The "definition" link on the above says that a page is a URL "... that would be considered the actual page being requested, and not all of the individual items that make it up (such as graphics and audio clips). Some people call this metric page views or page impressions, and defaults to any URL that has an extension of .htm, .html or .cgi." This seems incongruent with the URLs used at Wikipedia.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Please let me know if you have any questions.
Reid