From: "Dan Andreescu"
<dandreescu(a)wikimedia.org>
To: "A mailing list for the Analytics Team at WMF and everybody who has an interest
in Wikipedia and analytics."
<analytics(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Cc: "Christian Schaller" <cschalle(a)redhat.com>om>, "Tomas Popela"
<tpopela(a)redhat.com>
Sent: Tuesday, March 14, 2017 2:10:38 PM
Subject: Re: [Analytics] Os stats
Christian,
I wanted to make sure our code is working well so I took a look. We use UA
Parser, a regex-based community-maintained user agent identifier. It
correctly identified Fedora as the OS in all of the strings I found like
'%Fedora%' for the hour of raw webrequests I looked at. However, there
were less than 0.1% requests that were identified as Fedora. We cut off
reporting statistics when numbers get that low for privacy reasons. But
everything is detected correctly, so if Fedora's share of requests
increases, it will show up on the charts.
Hope this helps.
On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 1:51 PM, Erik Zachte <ezachte(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Hi Christian,
I'm forwarding your question to the WMF Analytics Team who authored this
report.
Cheers,
Erik
-----Original Message-----
From: Christian Schaller [mailto:cschalle@redhat.com]
Sent: Monday, March 13, 2017 16:07
To: Erik Zachte
Cc: Tomas Popela
Subject: Re: Os stats
Hi Erik,
Thanks for getting the new OS stats up on:
https://analytics.wikimedia.org/dashboards/browsers/#all-
sites-by-os/os-family-timeseries
That said as far as we can tell the detection of Fedora does not work at
all currently and we can not figure out why. Ubuntu which is detected uses
the following user agent:
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101
Firefox/52.0
While Fedora which isn't detected uses this user agent:
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Fedora; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101
Firefox/52.0
Would you be so kind to let us know what the wikimedia analytics engine
uses to try to identify Fedora systems? We can tweak our user agents quite
easily if that is easier than updating the analytics engines way of
detecting Fedora.
Sincerely,
Christian F.K. Schaller
----- Original Message -----
From: "Erik Zachte"
<ezachte(a)wikimedia.org>
To: "Christian Schaller" <cschalle(a)redhat.com>
Sent: Tuesday, October 6, 2015 11:28:55 AM
Subject: RE: Os stats
Hi Christian,
Sorry since my previous response we put the reports on hold, as there
are issues with reliability now that we migrated https almost fully.
Can you please add your signature to
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Analytics/Wikistats/TrafficReports/Futu
re_per_report_B2 I can do it for you, but I don't know: can I add your
full name or do you have a Wikipedia nick name that you prefer to use?
We are working on migration of the reports. More here:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T114379
Cheers,
Erik
-----Original Message-----
From: Christian Schaller [mailto:cschalle@redhat.com]
Sent: Tuesday, October 06, 2015 16:16
To: Erik Zachte
Subject: Re: Os stats
Hi Erik,
Just checking what the current plans are for the OS statistics on the
wikimedia site. As I mentioned in my first email to you, we would love
to use these numbers as a way to estimate how we are doing with Fedora
Linux as they are one of the few sources for such statistics where we
can be fairly sure the data is not biased one way or the other (due to
the huge number of people using wikipedia). Of course with the old
stats being discontinued I am know waiting for the new data to be made
available to start building my usage trend statistics :)
So on the page it says to let us know if we want a specific report
kept, so I would like to repeat my wish that there is a version of
report '2' kept available.
Anyway, I realize that maintaining these website statistics is a bit
of a sideshow for you guys and not a core part of what your doing, so
I just want to say that I do truly appreciate the effort to try to
have something at all available.
Sincerely,
Christian Schaller
----- Original Message -----
> From: "Erik Zachte" <ezachte(a)wikimedia.org>
> To: "Christian Schaller" <cschalle(a)redhat.com>
> Sent: Monday, June 22, 2015 10:41:40 AM
> Subject: RE: Os stats
>
> Hi Christian,
>
> I started a job to catch-up for the last 3 months, will take 4-5 days.
>
> FYI these reports are almost end-of-life. Expect a complete overhaul
> of Wikimedia traffic and core metrics reporting based on bigger iron
> and new paradigms (e.g. hadoop) in 2015 Q3/A4.
>
> Cheers,
> Erik
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christian Schaller [mailto:cschalle@redhat.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 16, 2015 16:46
> To: ezachte(a)wikimedia.org
> Subject: Os stats
>
> Hi Erik,
> Been checking out the stats on
>
https://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/squids/
SquidReportOperatingSystems.htm.
Are you
planning on updating that page again soon?
We are using your numbers as one of the datapoints for estimating
how Fedora Linux is doing, so I hope you plan on pulling new numbers
from time to time.
Christian
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