Name for main point of contact and contact preference
Kate Zimmerman, phab
What teams or departments is this for?
Product
What are your goals? How will you use this data or analysis?
to understand whether the decline in internal referrers is a result of a Product/Tech release, community actions, or something else, so we can adjust accordingly
What are the details of your request? Include relevant timelines or deadlines
@nettrom_WMF hypothesized that increased blocking of VPNs could decrease internal referrers:
When thinking about this, I did wonder if community members have been focusing more on blocking VPNs, IPs used for pooling users, and things like that. See for example this thread on Reddit about blocks in Finland , and in the discussion on meta about the relay there's a thread about of railroad travellers in Europe. I’m not sure what the extent of global blocks is, whether it’s increased or decreased over the past few years, and whether it would affect our numbers.
The declines in internal referrers are most obvious looking at changes from October to November, but it's possible the shifts started between August and September.
Can you see whether there are increases in blocks that would impact large populations of internet users?
Is this request urgent or time sensitive?
Time sensitive, as conversations about this will continue in early January.
