On February 11,
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.25/wmf16#CentralNotice was
deployed. The deprecation/decrease of Special:BannerRandom and
Special:RecordImpression can easily justify a decrease of hundreds
millions requests. Probably wikistats was already filtering them.
Erik Zachte, 13/03/2015 00:41:
That real legacy definition, with all of its known
deficiencies, is what will matter for our veteran users and any discrepacy from there
needs explaining.
I agree that what's needed here is a graph comparing current wikistats
(and reportcard?) to future output with the new figures. The new
definition is not final until it's "live". :)
I have troubles understanding the current and expected distribution
pipeline of pageviews data and figures. It would be nice to have an
overview somewhere, even just a list of links to the different steps.
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Analytics/Pageviews/Webstatscollector
Nemo