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Timeline of Wikimedia analytics

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Add Chinese censorship of all of Wikipedia
| 2015 || May || Statistics availability || The page views per country report is updated to use data from the new Hadoop-based infraustructure starting with this month. The retroactive update happens in February 2016.<ref>{{cite web|url = https://stats.wikimedia.org/archive/squid_reports/2015-05/SquidReportPageViewsPerCountryBreakdownHuge.htm|title = Wikimedia Traffic Analysis Report - Wikipedia Page Views Per Country - Breakdown|accessdate = July 15, 2018}}</ref>
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| 2015 || May 19 || Censorship || There is a significant decline in traffic to the Chinese Wikipedia starting this date, likely because the Chinese government implemented censorship of the Chinese Wikipedia starting on this date in response to the Wikimedia Foundation's announcement of a switch to HTTPS (making page-level blocking hardthe Chinese government previously blocked individual pages, but with HTTPS, it would no longer be possible to block individual pages).<ref>{{cite web|url = https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/metrics/legacy/pagecounts/aggregate/zh.wikipedia/desktop-site/daily/2015050100/2015053123|title = Aggregate page counts for traffic to Chinese Wikipedia for May 2015|accessdate = April 13, 2019}}</ref> The date of May 19 is also the one given by GreatFire, a Chinese Internet freedom organization that tracks censorship on the mainland.<ref>{{cite web|url = https://www.theepochtimes.com/china-now-blocked-from-accessing-wikipedia_1384917.html|title = China Now Blocked From Accessing Wikipedia|last = Wickenkamp|first = Carol|last2 = Li|first2 = Jenny|date = June 8, 2015|accessdate = May 19, 2019|publisher = The Epoch Times}}</ref>
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| 2015 || June || Statistics availability || WMF publishes comScore's unique visitor counts for the last time (data up to May)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://reportcard.wmflabs.org/graphs/unique_visitors |title=comScore's Unique Visitors counts |accessdate=September 30, 2016}}</ref>
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| 2018 || March || Statistics availability || For data from this month onward, the Wikipedia clickstream dataset availability expands from ten to eleven languages. The new language is Persian (fa).<ref>{{cite web|url = https://dumps.wikimedia.org/other/clickstream/2018-03/|title = Index of /other/clickstream/2018-03/|accessdate = April 13, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url = https://dumps.wikimedia.org/other/clickstream/2018-02/|title = Index of /other/clickstream/2018-02/|accessdate = April 13, 2019}}</ref>
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| 2019 || April 23 || Censorship || Starting around this date, all language Wikipedias are blocked.<ref>{{cite web|url = https://ooni.io/post/2019-china-wikipedia-blocking/|title = China is now blocking all language editions of Wikipedia|date = May 4, 2019|accessdate = May 19, 2019|publisher = Open Observatory of Network Interference}}</ref><ref name=scmp/> This is confirmed by the Wikimedia Foundation around May 14.<ref>{{cite web|url = https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-48269608|title = Wikipedia blocked in China in all languages|date = May 14, 2019|accessdate = May 19, 2019|publisher = BBC}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url = https://wikimediafoundation.org/2019/05/17/wikimedia-foundation-urges-chinese-authorities-to-lift-block-of-wikipedia-in-china/|title = Wikimedia Foundation urges Chinese authorities to lift block of Wikipedia in China|publisher = Wikimedia Foundation|date = May 17, 2019|accessdate = May 19, 2019}}</ref> The block is viewed by some commentators as being a precautionary measure for the 30-year anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre.<ref name=scmp>{{cite web|url = https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3010361/wikipedia-blocked-china-ahead-tiananmen-square-anniversary|title = https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3010361/wikipedia-blocked-china-ahead-tiananmen-square-anniversary|publisher = South China Morning Post, via Reuters|date = May 15, 2019|accessdate = May 19, 2019}}</ref>
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