Hi Andrew,
Thanks for investigating/following up. We are having the desired effect
then: organizations which rely on Wikipedia traffic to generate interest in
their educational content, to recognize that was happening.
Out of curiosity who was asking? If it was someone well used on Wikimedia
On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 10:49 PM, Dario Taraborelli
wrote:
> This change should fix this, while preserving the privacy of our readers
> browsing content over HTTPS.
That depends greatly on what you mean by readers privacy. By
definition referrers violate the privacy
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
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