On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 11:52 PM, Erik Zachte ezachte@wikimedia.org wrote:
Like Nuria said: this is unique devices, not unique people. Many people in the Global North use more than one device to access Wikipedia (desktop, tablet, phone).
Sure, and browses which rejects or periodically delete cookies will be counted multiple times, and a device might use multiple browsers (especially the embedded browsers on mobile devices)... even taking all that into account, a factor of four seems like a large disparity between this data and the audience panel numbers.