Massviews Analysis

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href="/massviews"> Massviews </a> </li> <li class="interapp-links--entry" role="presentation"> <a class="interapp-link interapp-link--redirectviews" href="/redirectviews"> Redirect Views </a> </li> <li class="interapp-links--entry" role="presentation"> <a class="interapp-link interapp-link--userviews" href="/userviews"> Userviews </a> </li> <li class="interapp-links--entry" role="presentation"> <a class="interapp-link interapp-link--mediaviews" href="/mediaviews"> Mediaviews </a> </li> <li class="interapp-links--more dropdown hidden"> <a class="interapp-link dropdown-toggle" href="#" data-toggle="dropdown" role="button" aria-haspopup="true" aria-expanded="false"> More <span class="caret"></span> </a> <ul class="dropdown-menu"></ul> </li> </ol> </div> </nav> <div class="container"> <header class="col-lg-12 text-center"> <h4> <strong> Massviews Analysis </strong> <small class="app-description"> FAQ </small> </h4> </header> <main class="col-lg-10 col-lg-offset-1"> <ul class="list-group"> <li class="list-group-item" id="sources"> <p> <strong>What are the "Sources"?</strong> </p> <ul class="faq-ul"> <li> <i>Category</i> — Get the pageviews of pages in a <a target='_blank' href='https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Categories'>category</a>. Enter the full URL of a category page, for example <a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Folk_musicians_from_New_York'>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Folk_musicians_from_New_York</a>. </li> <li> <i>Wikilinks</i> — Get the pageviews of <a href='https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Wikilinks'>linked pages</a> on a page. Enter the full URL of any page, for example <a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book:New_York_City' target='_blank'>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book:New_York_City</a>. </li> <li> <i>Page Pile</i> — Get the pageviews of pages in a <a target='_blank' href='https://pagepile.toolforge.org'>PagePile</a>. Enter the numeric ID of a set of pages created with <a href='https://pagepile.toolforge.org' target='_blank'>Page Pile</a>. </li> <li> <i>Subpages</i> — Get the pageviews of a page and all of its <a target='_blank' href='https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Subpages'>subpages</a>. Enter the full URL of any page, for example <a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jimbo_Wales'>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Example</a>. </li> <li> <i>Transclusions</i> — Get the pageviews of pages that <a href='https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Transclusion'>transclude</a> a template. Enter the full URL of a template page, for example <a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Infobox_Olympic_games'>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Infobox_Olympic_games</a>. </li> <li> <i>External link</i> — Get the pageviews of pages containing an <a target='_blank' href='https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Links#External_links'>external link</a>. Enter a URL pattern, for example <a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:LinkSearch/*.nycgo.com'>*.nycgo.com</a>. See the <a target='_blank' href='https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Linksearch'>Documentation</a> for more information. </li> <li> <i>Hashtag</i> — Powered by <a target='_blank' href='https://hashtags.wmflabs.org'>Wikimedia hashtag search</a>. Get the pageviews of pages that have edits with the given <a target='_blank' href='https://hashtags.wmflabs.org/docs'>hashtag</a> in the edit summary. Enter a hashtag with or without the hash (<code>#</code>) character, for example <a href='http://hashtags.wmflabs.org/search/100wikidays'>#100wikidays</a>. The result set may include pages across multiple wikis. See the <a href='http://hashtags.wmflabs.org/docs'>Documentation</a> for more information. This feature is primarily for editathons and outreach purposes. </li> <li> <i>Quarry</i> — Get the pageviews of pages returned by a <a target='_blank' href='//quarry.wmflabs.org'>Quarry</a> query. Enter the numeric ID and project of a Quarry dataset. The <code>page_title</code> column (required) is what will be used as the page titles. </li> <li> <i>Search</i> — Get pageviews of pages returned by a search, using the <a target='_blank' href='https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:CirrusSearch'>CirrusSearch</a> engine. Enter the search query and project, such as <a target='_blank' href='https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?search=insource%3A"UNESCO+Science+Report"&title=Special:Search'>insource:"UNESCO Science Report"</a>. </li> </ul> </li> <li class="list-group-item" id="category_subject_toggle"> <p> <strong>What is the "Use subject page instead of talk page" option?</strong> </p> <p> This option is for when you are using a category as the source. In some cases the category may contain talk pages when you actually want the subject pages. For instance <a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:FA-Class_New_York_City_articles'>FA-Class New York City articles</a>, which lists the talk pages of FA-quality articles within WikiProject New York City. </p> </li> <li class="list-group-item" id="old_data"> <p> <strong>Why can't I view data older than July 2015?</strong> </p> <p> The Wikimedia pageviews API was introduced in August 2015 and has backfilled data to July 2015. You will have to rely on other tools such as <a href='http://stats.grok.se'>stats.grok.se</a> to view data older than this. Whether or not they work is unfortunately outside the scope of this tool, and beyond the control of the maintainers. </p> </li> <li class="list-group-item" id="todays_data"> <p> <strong>Why can't I view data for today's date?</strong> </p> <p> The Wikimedia pageviews API generally takes a full 24 hours to populate, sometimes longer. In some situations you may see data missing for yesterday's date as well, which will be left blank rather than showing a count of zero views. </p> </li> <li class="list-group-item" id="anomaly"> <p> <strong>Why do some pages have unusually high pageviews?</strong> </p> <p> If you see an inexplicable spike in pageviews, especially if it is only on specific days, it may be false traffic from an automated program. One tactic to identify bot-inflated traffic is to compare desktop views with mobile views. First see which agents are most popular on your project for all articles, and use that as a basis for comparison. For instance on the English Wikipedia mobile web views should be comparable if not higher than desktop, so if mobile web views are very low, it might be false traffic. </p> <p> If you are unable to conclude it is false traffic, you can request an investigation to be done by filing a ticket on <a target='_blank' href='https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/task/edit/form/1/?projects=Pageviews-Anomaly'>Phabricator</a>. These pageviews anomalies are common and tedious to investigate, so do not expect a timely response. </p> </li> <li class="list-group-item" id="counts"> <p> <strong>Are pageviews by the same user counted every time?</strong> </p> <p> Yes. Every time you load a page, a pageview is registered, even if you created the page. You can learn more about the pageview definition at <a target='_blank' href='https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Page_view'>meta:Research:Page view</a>. </p> </li> <li class="list-group-item" id="date_dot"> <p> <strong>What are the dots next to the date labels?</strong> </p> <p> This indicates the first day of the week. Pageviews tend to be low during the weekends, so this indicator can give perspective to the seven-day pattern. </p> </li> <li class="list-group-item" id="agents"> <p> <strong>What are the "Agents"?</strong> </p> <ul class="faq-ul"> <li> <i>User</i> includes all people who view a page. Editors, anonymous editors, and our readers. </li> <li> <i>Spider</i> includes search engine "<a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_crawler'>web crawlers</a>" like Google that read pages for the purposes of improving search results. Pages can receive significant views from web crawlers, which is why by default the tool shows data only from users. </li> <li> <i>Automated</i> includes automated programs that are not search engine crawlers. </li> </ul> </li> <li class="list-group-item" id="feedback"> <p> <strong>I have a feature request or bug to report</strong> </p> <p> If you would like to use a wiki to provide feedback, use the <a href='https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Pageviews_Analysis'>feedback forum</a> on Meta. 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