{bear} Last Access Counts
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	• kevinator
	Feb 5 2015, 2:12 AM

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Objective: Implement a means to count unique clients using a last-access cookie
Key Result: Validated and up-to-date data is available internally

Per our 2015 Jan-March goal https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/2014-15_Goals#Analytics

Implement using "Last Access" time stamp on client side and count in Varnish. Unique identifiers will not be used for this report.

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Status	Assigned	Task
Resolved	None	T88647 {bear} Last Access Counts
Resolved	• Nuria	T88812 WMF has technical documentation on UC by last visited date [5 pts] {bear}
Declined	• kevinator	T88813 Implement Last-Access cookie [34 pts] {bear}
Resolved	• kevinator	T92435 Code changes in VCL to add a Last-Access cookie to track "top domain" uniques [13 pts] {bear}
Resolved	• madhuvishy	T92977 Implement Unique Devices report on cluster using x-analytics header & last access date {bear} [13 pts]
Resolved	JAllemandou	T89396 Add x_analytics map to refined tables {hawk}
Resolved	JAllemandou	T91793 Add user_agent map to refined tables {hawk}
Duplicate	None	T88814 WMF has report of monthly UCs by project [13 pts] {bear}
Resolved	• madhuvishy	T101465 Validate Uniques using Last Access cookie {bear} [89 pts]
Resolved	None	T103376 Deploy oozie reporting of last-access counts {bear}
Resolved	• madhuvishy	T112010 Document work so far on Last access uniques and validating the numbers {bear} [8 pts]
Resolved	• Nuria	T115350 Research whether no cookie header numbers improve Last access uniques {bear} [13 pts]
Resolved	• Nuria	T119653 Estimate number of users (or requests) that have cookies off (due to fresh session or incognito mode) [3 pts]
Resolved	• Nuria	T121534 Peer review (with research) of methodology of last access calculations

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• kevinator created this task.Feb 5 2015, 2:12 AM

• kevinator raised the priority of this task from to High.

• kevinator updated the task description. (Show Details)

• kevinator added projects: Analytics-Kanban, Analytics-Clusters.

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• kevinator added subtasks: T88812: WMF has technical documentation on UC by last visited date [5 pts] {bear}, T88813: Implement Last-Access cookie [34 pts] {bear}, T88814: WMF has report of monthly UCs by project [13 pts] {bear}.Feb 6 2015, 7:16 PM

tstarling mentioned this in T88813: Implement Last-Access cookie [34 pts] {bear}.Feb 13 2015, 1:12 AM

Eloquence added a project: Epic.Feb 18 2015, 8:05 AM

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• Nuria closed subtask T88812: WMF has technical documentation on UC by last visited date [5 pts] {bear} as Resolved.Mar 2 2015, 4:44 PM

Not that we are just going to try to implement "monthly" cookies on 1st phase, not daily.

• kevinator added a subtask: T92977: Implement Unique Devices report on cluster using x-analytics header & last access date {bear} [13 pts].Mar 19 2015, 6:31 PM

• kevinator updated the task description. (Show Details)Mar 19 2015, 9:41 PM

Update: since Nuria's last comment: we found a way to count both monthly and daily uniques by putting year-month-day in the cookie, sending that in the x-analytics header. see details here: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Analytics/Unique_clients/Last_access_solution

• kevinator closed subtask T88813: Implement Last-Access cookie [34 pts] {bear} as Declined.Apr 27 2015, 4:47 PM

• kevinator added a subtask: T101465: Validate Uniques using Last Access cookie {bear} [89 pts].Jun 4 2015, 11:31 PM

• kevinator moved this task from Next Up to Parent Tasks on the Analytics-Kanban board.Jun 12 2015, 5:44 AM

• kevinator renamed this task from {epic} WMF has UC report per project per month & day {bear} to {bear} Last Access Counts.Jun 12 2015, 6:13 AM

• kevinator updated the task description. (Show Details)

• MZMcBride subscribed.Jun 15 2015, 2:33 PM

• kevinator closed subtask T92977: Implement Unique Devices report on cluster using x-analytics header & last access date {bear} [13 pts] as Resolved.Jun 23 2015, 3:42 PM

• kevinator added a subtask: T112010: Document work so far on Last access uniques and validating the numbers {bear} [8 pts].Sep 17 2015, 2:53 PM

• kevinator closed subtask T112010: Document work so far on Last access uniques and validating the numbers {bear} [8 pts] as Resolved.

• kevinator closed subtask T101465: Validate Uniques using Last Access cookie {bear} [89 pts] as Resolved.Sep 25 2015, 3:33 PM

• kevinator added a subtask: T115350: Research whether no cookie header numbers improve Last access uniques {bear} [13 pts].Oct 29 2015, 9:00 PM

• Nuria closed subtask T115350: Research whether no cookie header numbers improve Last access uniques {bear} [13 pts] as Resolved.Jan 11 2016, 5:20 PM