The basic idea was that pageviews_complete was going to be a combined dataset, in a uniform format, as compressed as possible, with everything we retained about pageviews to Wikimedia projects since 2007.
So, the goal is to keep an historic archive of pageview activity, right?
And I can imagine the «pageview» has been designed to be suitable for data processing (API's, etc). Isn't it?
If you tell me what exactly you're looking for, I can try to direct you.
At this point I'm just studying the available metrics panorama for an internal report.
And if you're looking to help improve the documentation, then we very much welcome that, and I can point you in the right direction as well.
I would really like to be able to do it.
Anyhow, thanks a lot for the explanation.