There are a variety of reasons why someone might view a redirected title: * following a link still using the old title. (Either internally or externally) * typing the old name exactly in the search bar * typing old name in address bar
-- Brian On Thursday, February 6, 2020, Marco Antonio <mgrazianodecas...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi folks. > > *This is my first time using this mail list*, so if this is not the right > place to ask this kind of question please lemme know about how I should > proceed in this case. > > > *Question* > I have basically downloaded from MediaWiki API a lot of pages related to > mathematics. Some of them are just *duplicated of the same Article*, but > with one difference being their title, such as different way os calling the > same subject, or letter that differs from one and another, ao so on and so > forth. > > One example that I can show you right away is: > > - "Adição_de_*s*egmentos", and > - "Adição_de_*S*egmentos", > > both written in portuguese (my native language). The only difference > between the titles are just the lowercase and uppercase of the letter > "s".As I was testing on the URL's, it seems that *they both are the same > article, but redirecting from different links to the official "title".* > > Keeping in mind those kind of duplicates, when I've started *to analyse > the statistics of views on a specific article*, while going through its > cases, I was expecting to receive the following structure of data: > > > - The old ones (deprecated) would hold views until some day X, and > then it would have nothing to further count and show; > - The up-to-date titles would have data starting from day X and then > would hold until the last day that I want to analyse. > > > Nothing too crazy to expect from the database. But that was not what > happened. *There are plenty of articles that are still receiving views > even though they all redirect to another article*. At first, I've just > thought that people are getting to the articles's content with different > links available on search engines, such as google, so all views must be > independent from one another. The problem is, after testing on the google > platform different search for *the same Wikipedia's article I can only > get the* *up-to-date articles, not the old ones.* > > > 1. How can this be possible? > 2. But more important for me, are all acesses on the deprecated > articles made by bots or old links available on old pages from other sites? > 3. Are the count on all different article's title independent? > 4. If so, how could I be able to even track all the possible acesses > on a particular subject to create an effective study o it? > > > Anyway, this is (if I remember well) the fourth time I'm trying to get a > proper answer for my question, and I'm hopping I'll get it soon. > > Thanks! > > > Marco Antonio > > Graduando em Matemática Pura na USP | Divulgador Científico > > <https://www.facebook.com/ViaSaber> > <https://www.linkedin.com/in/magcastro/> > <https://www.instagram.com/marcoantoniograziano/> > > >
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