Re: [Analytics] [Ops] Dark traffic

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

Re: [Analytics] [Ops] Dark traffic

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

Re: [Analytics] [Ops] Dark traffic

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

Re: [Analytics] [Ops] Dark traffic

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