Re: [Wikitech-l] [Analytics] Unique Devices data available on API

>Sure, and browses which rejects or periodically delete cookies will be counted multiple times Actually no, they will be counted only once towards the period in which we are counting them (daily or monthly) as long as the IP of the device is the same. Not multiple times. In mobile IPs are shared

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Analytics] Unique Devices data available on API

On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 11:52 PM, Erik Zachte wrote: > Like Nuria said: this is unique devices, not unique people. Many people in > the Global North use more than one device to access Wikipedia (desktop, > tablet, phone). > Sure, and browses which rejects or periodically

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Analytics] Unique Devices data available on API

Like Nuria said: this is unique devices, not unique people. Many people in the Global North use more than one device to access Wikipedia (desktop, tablet, phone). Also I'd like to add a caveat: any long term change will have to factor in that this ratio of devices owned per user isn't fixed

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Analytics] Unique Devices data available on API

Here's another useful link to a form that helps you construct the API call: https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/?doc#!/Unique_devices_data/get_metrics_unique_devices_project_access_site_granularity_start_end On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 12:17 PM, Nuria Ruiz wrote: > Hello! > >

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Analytics] Unique Devices data available on API

Very interesting, thank you! Do you have any estimate of how much this overcounts? I checked the monthly uniques for huwiki , and it's about 5.8 million, which is a bit higher than the

Re: [Wikitech-l] Unique Devices data available on API

Ha, perhaps Nuria’s quote should read: > it does not include any cookie by which your brows*ING* history can be tracked [3]. s/browser/browsing/ On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 4:38 PM, bawolff wrote: > > it does not include any > > cookie by which your browser history can be

Re: [Wikitech-l] Unique Devices data available on API

> it does not include any > cookie by which your browser history can be tracked [3]. Umm, it involves a cookie, which tracks whether you have previously browsed the site. While I applaud the analytics team in using such a privacy friendly method, I'm not sure its an entirely truthful statement to

[Wikitech-l] Unique Devices data available on API

Hello! The analytics team is happy to announce that the Unique Devices data is now available to be queried programmatically via an API. This means that getting the daily number of unique devices [1] for English Wikipedia for the month of February 2016, for all sites (desktop and mobile) is as

[Wikitech-l] CentralAuth timing security

Hi all, We've just landed a patch to the master branch of CentralAuth[0] that helps avoid timing attacks with token comparisons. The Phabricator task is T125290[1]. If you are are using CentralAuth (which is probably not many of you), please update your installations with this patch. -Chad [0]

[Wikitech-l] Help review/test AuthManager

Hi all, AuthManager [1][2] is getting close to being completed. It will replace AuthPlugin as the interface for authentication extensions, and involves a rewrite of most authentication code in core (password handling in User, login/signup/password change/password reset APIs and special pages). It