[Engineering] How we count uniques

Thu Mar 31 18:48:21 UTC 2016

Kudos to the Analytics and Research team for doing that!

Since the blog specifically called out not making our users log in, and so
not being able to count "users", are we looking how many logged in users
access our sites each month (whether they make an edit or not), and average
number of devices per user account?

On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 8:21 AM, Anna Stillwell <astillwell at wikimedia.org>
wrote:

> Very cool. Novel solutions that work well and are in line with our values
> are cool.
>
> Congratulations to everyone involved.
>
> /a
>
> On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 11:11 PM, Ori Livneh <ori at wikimedia.org> wrote:
>
>> Madhu, Nuria, and Aaron from the Analytics and Research teams have
>> written a blog post on how we are able to measure the reach of the projects
>> without tracking users. The technique we use is novel, as far as I know,
>> and it has already allowed us to quantify and understand the shift from
>> desktop to mobile better than we could before. So I want to congratulate
>> the three authors and the rest of the analytics team, as well as encourage
>> you to read the post, since it makes for very interesting reading. :)
>>
>> https://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/03/30/unique-devices-dataset/
>>
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