In T132223#2227184, @Lydia_Pintscher wrote:

Is there anything special we need to do? Or do they just show up in regular page view stats?

They should just show up in the regular page view stats! :)

@Addshore and @Lydia_Pintscher will it be possible to see these separately at all? If so, where?

The idea suggested at the Hackathon by a few people, was "A way to see the most-viewed titles, so that the local community can focus their creation/translation efforts in the places where they might have the most usefulness."

The only page I can think of where it might be, is https://tools.wmflabs.org/topviews/?project=eo.wikipedia.org&platform=all-access&start=2016-05-01&end=2016-05-11
but that only lists Speciàle:AboutTopic a single time (~position #140, with 118 views at this moment), so we can't tell which titles specifically are being looked at...

@Lucie right now I feel like it would be better to talk to the analytics team about this and the people working on the page view API.

It may be possible for an api endpoint to be created finding the most viewed sub pages of a special page?

I am not sure this requires any works from analytics team. Seems like the data you need is already available on pageview API.

You just need to find out which are the pages you are interested in finding pageview stats for qnd querying the pageview API with those.

correct?

In T132223#2319015, @Nuria wrote:

I am not sure this requires any works from analytics team. Seems like the data you need is already available on pageview API.

You just need to find out which are the pages you are interested in finding pageview stats for qnd querying the pageview API with those.

correct?

So I believe that this ticket is talking about wanting a list of these pages with the most views. A broader way of describing this would be a list of pages on a project or across multiple projects that have the most views based on a prefix.

So someone would query for something like:

project=* prefix=Special:AboutTopic/

or

project=enwiki prefix=Special:AboutTopic/

And would then be returned a list such as:

193 Special:AboutTopic/Q123
89 Special:AboutTopic/Q92183
73 Special:AboutTopic/Q111
20 Special:AboutTopic/Q43
1 Special:AboutTopic/999
1 Special:AboutTopic/987

Whould this be something that the analytics team could add to the pageview api?

I do however already see an issue here, as the specialpage namespace is localised and thus getting this data may be hard.

If this is not something that the analytics team would like to see in the pageview api then we will have to explore other routes of regularly getting and publishing the data, the hive query for this from the webrequest table should be fairly straight forward.

Comments from the project standpoint:

@Addshore: we will not be adding new features to Pageview API until we have finished our scaling project and added counting of pageviews for wikis for which it is not happening (ex: outreachwiki)

Any feature additions will happen either end of next quarter (November) or later.

Technical comments:

prefix=Special:AboutTopic/

Having queries such as this one pushes a lot of knowledge about mediawiki urls into the pageview API, we want to keep the API mediawiki agnostic as much as as possible and the parsing of those pageviews (if indeed each record is a different page) should happen earlier in the pipeline.

A better semantics would be to have categories under which pages live like: "data-item" or "medical" so you could query for pages like category=data-item
and page=Q2834518. Then a pageview for https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:AboutTopic/Q2834518 would show in your query.

The Special:AboutTopic seems really a work around needed in mediawiki that should not be propagated.