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Page Views counts too high for wikistats since July 2013
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Description

Since CentralAuth's use of

Special:CentralAutoLogin/start
Special:CentralAutoLogin/createSession

(~mid July 2013) Page Views shown on wikistats are too high, as
webstatscollector counts the above requests and wikistats just sums
over requests counted by webstatscollector.

However, the above endpoints do not qualify as page view.

[1] http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesPageViewsMonthlyOriginalCombined.htm


Version: unspecified
Severity: normal
URL: http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesPageViewsMonthlyOriginalCombined.htm
See Also:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=70295

Details

Reference
bz57980

Event Timeline

bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Needs Triage.Nov 22 2014, 2:17 AM
bzimport set Reference to bz57980.
bzimport added a subscriber: Unknown Object (MLST).

Initial report is at:

http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2013-November/128911.html

Webstatscollector has been updated to filter Special:CentralAutoLogin/
(commit 0d7af935f989d5c539a4d2febde93ea0ae62571), and since 2013-12-03 the
new version of webstatscollector is deployed.

The last full file of the old webstatscollector is:

http://dumps.wikimedia.org/other/pagecounts-raw/2013/2013-12/pagecounts-20131203-190000.gz

The file of the switchover is:

http://dumps.wikimedia.org/other/pagecounts-raw/2013/2013-12/pagecounts-20131203-200003.gz

The first full file of the new webstatscollector is:

http://dumps.wikimedia.org/other/pagecounts-raw/2013/2013-12/pagecounts-20131203-210005.gz

Filtering of webstatscollector between mid July 2013 and 2013-12-03 is still
to be done.

Filtering is complete. See also this analysis/validation of results:
http://tinyurl.com/pmm66v4

(In reply to comment #3)

Filtering is complete. See also this analysis/validation of results:
http://tinyurl.com/pmm66v4

Error: TinyURL redirects to a TinyURL.

Thanks for spotting and fixing this.

Could the note about this correction also be added to the other pages on stats.wikimedia which are affected by this, e.g.
http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesPageViewsMonthlyAllProjects.htm ?