The goal of this assignment is to construct, analyze, and publish a dataset of monthly traffic on English Wikipedia from January 1 2008 through September 30 2018, to demonstrate ability to follow best practices for open scientific research in designing and make the project fully reproducible by others: from data collection to data analysis.

The WIkimedia Pagecounts API and the Pageviews API are used to collect data. The terms of license can be found at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/REST_API#Terms_and_conditions.

The Pagecounts API (https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Analytics/AQS/Legacy_Pagecounts) provides access to desktop and mobile traffic data from January 2008 through July 2016.

The Pageviews API (https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Analytics/AQS/Pageviews) provides access to desktop, mobile web, and mobile app traffic data from July 2015 through September 2017.

The file has the following columns:

year: year of the time stamp associated with the traffic

month: month of the time stamp associated with the traffic

pagecounts_all_views: number of page counts from both desktop and mobile using Pagecounts API pagecounts_desktop_views: number of desktop page counts obtained using Pagecounts API pagecounts_mobile_views: number of mobile page views obtainedusing Pagecounts API

pageviews_all_views: number of page views from both desktop and mobile obtained using Pageviews API pageviews_desktop_views: number of desktop page views obtained using Pageviews API pageviews_mobile_views: number of mobile page views obtained using Pageviews API

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This project is licensed under the MIT License.