Hi all, We are a group of undergraduates working on a project using the MediaWiki API. While working on this project, we ran into a unique issue involving pageviews. When trying to pull pageview data for a particular page, the redirects of a page would not be counted along with the original pageviews. For example, the Hong Kong protests page only has direct views, and not views from previous titles.
We attempted to use the wmflabs.org tool, but it only shows data from a certain date. (Example link: https://tools.wmflabs.org/pageviews/?project=en.wikipedia.org&platform=all-access&agent=user&start=2019-07-01&end=2020-01-25&pages=2019%E2%80%9320_Hong_Kong_protests|China <https://tools.wmflabs.org/pageviews/?project=en.wikipedia.org&platform=all-access&agent=user&start=2019-07-01&end=2020-01-25&pages=2019%E2%80%9320_Hong_Kong_protests%7CChina> ) Then we attempted to use the redirects of a page and using the old page ids to grab the pageview data, but there was no data returned. When we attempted to grab data for a page that we knew would have a long past, but the parameter of "pvipcontinue" did not appear ( https://www.mediawiki.org/w/api.php?action=help&modules=query%2Bpageviews). (Example: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:ApiSandbox#action=query&format=json&prop=pageviews&titles=MediaWiki&pvipmetric=pageviews&pvipdays=60&pvipcontinue= ) In the end, we are trying to get an accurate count of view for a certain page no matter the source. Any guidance or assistance is greatly appreciated. Thanks, Jackie, James, Junyi, Kirby _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
