Talk:Pageviews Analysis
Pageviews Analysis – Documentation • Feedback forum • Issue tracker • GitHub • translatewiki.net • #wikimedia-cloudconnect
| Welcome to the Pageviews Analysis feedback forum | ||
|---|---|---|
|
This is the forum to provide feature requests, bug reports, and general feedback for the Pageviews Analysis suite of tools. Some key notes when making a post:
|
||
Bug when accessing multiple pages in dates one of them didn't exist
I hit a bug while accidentally attempting to use the tool for articles that were not created yet in the period defined in the "Dates" field. In particular, I tried to access the stats for article Rui Rocha throughout 2021, while the page was only created in 2022.
If I enter a single page, I get an error saying "Rui Rocha: Error querying Pageviews API - Not Found". This is not really user-friendly (an error like "Page Rui Rocha did not exist in the specified period" would be better), but it's at least minimally informative and not too scary.
But if I enter multiple pages including the one that did not exist in the specified period, I get the message "Fatal error: TypeError: i is undefined" along with a red pop-up saying "Fatal error: Please refresh the page to try again or report this issue".
IMO both issues should be handled more gracefully, but the second one in particular appears to be missing a guard in the code. --Waldyrious (talk) 19:32, 5 February 2024 (UTC)
- I will get this fixed. Thanks for reporting and providing detailed steps to reproduce the issue! :) MusikAnimal (WMF) (talk) 16:20, 14 February 2024 (UTC)
- Restoring this thread which is being archived due to age, but hasn't (AFAICT) been resolved yet. --Waldyrious (talk) 14:43, 18 April 2024 (UTC)
- Apologies. I will tend to this when time allows. MusikAnimal (WMF) (talk) 19:32, 24 May 2024 (UTC)
pageviews.wmcloud.org Issuance restrictions
I suggest introducing the possibility of limiting the length of the response to the request. It often happens that I need only the top 50, and thousands of rows are loaded. The browser hangs. Thank you. Dgho (talk) 14:31, 5 November 2024 (UTC)
Massviews Analysis using incategory, not deepcategory
Is there a way to make Massviews Analysis only scan articles directly in a category? In most cases deepcategory may be more useful but sometimes a lot of off-topic articles are included if articles in subcategory are included. For example, when using en:Category:Environmental non-fiction books a lot of climate change novels show up because of some miscategorization and other category branches are very large where it would be more useful to go through one category at a time. Enabling users to specify depth or to exclude a number of subcategories would also be very useful.
If that's currently not possible, could you please add this incategory scan functionality? Prototyperspective (talk) 12:12, 6 December 2024 (UTC)
- Apparently it's already possible by unchecking "Include all subcategories" when going back to the start page by clicking on "Do another query". I think it would be good if this checkbox was also included in the result page because I used to go to a result page to then change the query and it's also helpful to rerun a query without the subcategories. Specifying the depth and categories to exclude would also be useful. Like on Commons, there is a lot of miscategorization that causes issues such as the Non-fiction books category branch including mostly articles about people and a few films at the top. Prototyperspective (talk) 12:20, 6 December 2024 (UTC)
Please allow pageviews for deleted pages
When a page is moved to a new title and we don't need redirect, we cannot see the pageview statistics for the old title. For example, on w:hu:Magyar Péter (politikus) we would also like to view the statistics for w:hu:Magyar Péter (jogász). Bean49 (talk) 15:33, 7 December 2024 (UTC)
Bot views? 1 audio download = 1 play?
This scan suggests one of the files has been played almost 50 000 times within just a few days which seems quite implausible. What's the cause of this? Are bot views maybe not properly excluded?
Moreover, I usually download spoken Wikipedia audios to then load them in my podcast player since there is no proper audio player on Commons itself and the Commons app. Hence, I wondered whether only downloading a file is included in the view counts (I guess as 1 view/play as there doesn't seem to be a separate Downloads stat). Prototyperspective (talk) 12:42, 11 December 2024 (UTC)