hey Andrew, we're monitoring the impact of this change (which we rolled out on 2/22) with a number of external partners (BBC, Le Monde, JSTOR, Elsevier) and we're planning to write a full report in April. Elsevier reported that in June visible inbound traffic from Wikipedia dropped by 99% in June 2015. This change should fix this, while preserving the privacy of our readers browsing content over HTTPS.
Background: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Wikimedia_referrer_policy Dario On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 7:20 AM, Andrew Lih <andrew....@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks James, Dan, Chris and all for the quick answer. > > Nice to see this change. As Alex Stinson pointed out in the Phabricator > discussion, it helps with our GLAM partners so they can keep tracking how > much referral traffic comes from WM projects. > > -Andrew > > > On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 10:02 AM, Chris Steipp <cste...@wikimedia.org> > wrote: > >> Hi Dan, >> >> https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T87276 >> >> On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 6:58 AM, Dan Andreescu <dandree...@wikimedia.org> >> wrote: >> >>> I think this is more of an ops question, cc-ing them. >>> >>> On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 9:55 AM, Andrew Lih <andrew....@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> Hi folks, I got this note from an external organization that wanted to >>>> know more about what Wikimedia changed so that they are now accurate >>>> getting referral info. Any pointers? >>>> >>>> "Wikipedia was implementing a fix so it would not be “dark traffic" in >>>> the analytics reports. This has been happening for the past 10 months. Just >>>> noticed today that Wikipedia is showing again in the referrals report.” >>>> >>>> Thanks. >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Analytics mailing list >>>> Analytics@lists.wikimedia.org >>>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics >>>> >>>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Ops mailing list >>> o...@lists.wikimedia.org >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/ops >>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Analytics mailing list >> Analytics@lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Analytics mailing list > Analytics@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics > > -- *Dario Taraborelli *Head of Research, Wikimedia Foundation wikimediafoundation.org • nitens.org • @readermeter <http://twitter.com/readermeter>
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