User talk:Henrik/Archive 5

Two questions about how visits are counted

I'm using your tool to improve catalan wikipedia but I need some help to understand the meaning of counts:

1. Some users use catalan wikipedia trough the domain http://viquipedia.cat, which is redirected to the "official" ca.wikipedia.org. May this affect visits count?
2. Are bots visiting articles to check interwikis counted as visits? If they are counted and there is no way to count apart human visitors, do you know any estimation of how often are articles visited by boots?

Thank you in advance.--Pere prlpz (talk) 18:32, 10 May 2008 (UTC)

Hope it's ok when I answer this:

1. No, as http://ca.wikipedia.org/... is included by a frame; every page comes from the Wikimedia servers, not from viquipedia.cat
2. Yes, also bots are counted [every squid server access]! http://vo.wikipedia.org/ has about 100,000 page hits per day, but only 25 speakers at all. Having 116,000 articles there, I guess that there is an average of up to one (1) page hit per article caused by a bot (a little bit less). Note: Such numbers strongly depend on how good your wiki is interconnected [by links (mainly interwikis)]! --- MfG, Melancholie (talk) 18:50, 10 May 2008 (UTC)

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Henrik/Archive 5, just a note of appreciation for your recent support of my request for adminship, which ended successfully with 112 supports, 2 opposes, and 1 neutral. If there's something I've realized during my RFA process this last week, it's that adminship is primarily about trust. I will strive to honour that trust in my future interactions with the community. Many thanks! Gatoclass (talk) 06:26, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

Thanks Henrik :) Gatoclass (talk) 08:14, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

Anti-Americanism

Hi Henrik. Thanks for coming to this article as a neutral party. It's been difficult lately and I probably haven't been on best behaviour. If you do have the time, maybe you could comment on this thread. Do give the article a read-over beforehand; third party opnions on future direction would be very helpful. Cheers, Marskell (talk) 21:35, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

Someone asked me to look at the article a while ago and I didn't. You seem to be doing a good job now. Let me know if you need any help William M. Connolley (talk) 22:30, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

Thanks. More eyes are always helpful, so if you feel like it I wouldn't mind at all. I'll try to stay involved in trying to resolve this however, I think we've only just started. henrik•talk 12:30, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

Thanks William. When the page is brought to something resembling decent, I will ping you. Marskell (talk) 17:26, 18 May 2008 (UTC)

page access

Could you also show with your tool how much traffic wikipedia organization sites had. That would be very helpful. Thank you Wandalstouring (talk) 12:04, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

Unfortunately not, the wikimedia sites aren't in the data dumps. henrik•talk 15:24, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

Another issue that came to my mind, is how many articles need to be improved to give the average reader a satisfying reply(in 50% or in 90% of the cases he searches something). It pays off better if high traffic articles get improved because they will be viewed by a larger part of the readers. OK, that's already possible with the existing tool, but I suggest to go a step further and find out the distribution of total traffic on articles, possibly visualized with a declining graph (that lists the high access articles on one side and the low access on the other) and short notes at what monthly amount of clicks how much percent of the total traffic are covered. In return this could help to establish an importance rating for articles and thus improve reader satisfaction by focusing article improvement on top important rated articles and to a lesser degree on the middle importance rated articles. Wandalstouring (talk) 13:48, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

That is a good idea! henrik•talk 15:24, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

When you have done that graph, can you post it for implementation in the article Wikipedia and on my talk page (for the military history project). Thanks a lot. Wandalstouring (talk) 10:54, 23 May 2008 (UTC)

Doesn't look good

Again. I am, as I said, considering this vandalism. Marskell (talk) 13:11, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

Indeed not. henrik•talk 15:23, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

statistics

It would be very interessting to suppress the accents ! in french, the same article is seen with two counts like fr:fonction zeta de Riemann and fr:fonction zêta de Riemann.88.162.110.102 (talk) 13:50, 23 May 2008 (UTC) (claudeh5 on wikipedia.fr)

Statistics, again

"This is very much a beta service and may disappear or change at any time": You may improve it (seems fine to me as it is) but please do not make it disappear! This is too good. Congratulations. --FocalPoint (talk) 13:28, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

If it is not too much work for the server, you could allow an interval more than one month (FROM ---- TO) and for server work, you can limit it to a max distance (say 12 months).--FocalPoint (talk) 13:43, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for the pointers about marking my own edits as vandalism and about Twinkle.AngelaVietto (talk) 16:52, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

AA origins

Hi Henrik. Thanks for bringing a couple of new sources to the page; note I adjusted the headlines because I think your "Origins" section follows from "Definitions" above it. A couple of questions/notes re the following:

"Scholars have developed two theories to explain the causes of anti-Americanism: the theories of resistance and scapegoating. The first holds that sentiment against America is a response by realists seeking to protect national interest against U.S. influence. According to it, hatred of America reflects "real-life experience" and is not an imagined perception. Rubin et al. argue that the underlying reason for anti-Americanism is "the belief that what underlies all U.S. actions is a desire to take over or remake the world."

• I'd like to drop "two theories" in favour of "two amongst a variety" or something like that. There are a lot of theories, so I don't want to pigeonhole it.
  • I don't have any objections in principle, but I think most other theories could probably be contained under one of the two. The source also specifically says "two". If you read the source (p. 4), you'll see that I tried to stay pretty close to it.
• "...a response by realists." I presume you mean non-American realists?
  • Correct. Do you have any suggestions how to make this clearer?
• "...not an imagined perception." Is this meant to be somewhat sympathetic? That is, a non-American realist might reasonably conclude it's best to oppose the US and this shouldn't be taken as irrational.
  • Yes, that some expressions of opposing the US (either in a specific policy, or some part of the culture) could be rational. I'm not sure it would be helpful to go into details, but the protests during the lead-up to Iraq could perhaps be taken to be this kind. They were widely described as anti-American at the time.
• Finally, scroll down the article to the National Identity section. I'd like to greatly compress that by shortening the quotes and merge it with your Origins section. I think they go over much same thing.
  • That seems like a good idea.

Sorry to bother you on User talk. Posting to Article talk is incredibly difficult at the moment. Marskell (talk) 20:02, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

No problem. :) henrik•talk 20:44, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

In general, I approve of how you've folded National Identity into Origins. I will probably tweak it considerably, but this seems a good starting point for improvement. It's after 1 am for me :) so I won't seriously engage the article or your above points until tomorrow. Marskell (talk) 21:18, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

I won't make any more changes today, better to go slow on this article. I await your tweaks with anticipation. :) I wouldn't mind getting rid of the rest of National Identity, as I think the rest of the content there is rather tangential. henrik•talk 21:23, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

I tweaked the section. In the first line I made clear Rubin is suggesting two types and I also clarified non-American realists. I added "...is not an irrational or imagined perception." If you have wording closer to the text plz change it—"imagined perception" on its own doesn't tell me much. I also killed the rump section on National Identity; I buried some of the material in the Origins section.

As for the revert today, that's fine. I restored some things and left others. What's most frustrating is the sense of being put through the Wikipedia equivalent of Chinese water torture while trying to improve the article. Marskell (talk) 16:24, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

A Request

I want this false accusation against me by a certain editor on the Anti-Americanism talk page deleted. It is not acceptible to libel me on the wikipedia and it is contrary to this policy: Wikipedia:Assume good faith:

"Returning to the task of improving the article, my edit to remove plagiarism was reverted without discussion! Very shocking! I explained my concern here [6], which received no response. Interestingly, Colin4C's response was not to remove the plagiarism, but to remove the source, making the plagiarism harder to detect." Colin4C (talk) 09:17, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

page view stats

What is the schedule for stat updates? Frequently, I am able to get stats from the previous day. Today, I am looking for stats fromthe 24th. When will they be available?--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 13:46, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

Unfortunately there was a problem at the source today - it stopped updating after 14:00 yesterday. I've let Domas know, hopefully it should be starting up again soon. henrik•talk 13:50, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

Were yesterday's stat's lost?--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 15:51, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

Hi Henrik,

How do you compute your stats? For instance, if I look for youtube in May - http://stats.grok.se/en/200805/youtube - your stats report 198.7k on May 3 but a grep for ^youtube on en.txt extracted from http://dammit.lt/wikistats/daily/daily-20080503.tgz yields youtube 52937 52937 youtube 12904 12904 youtube 3092 3092 youtube 2407 2407 youtube 562 562 youtube 500 500 youtube%27a_Proxy_Bazl%C4%B1_Giri%C5%9F_Yollar%C4%B1 279 279 youtube 211 211 youtube 159 159 youtube.com 130 130 youtube 128 128 youtube 119 119 youtube 102 102 youtube 98 98 youtube,com 20 20 youtube.com 18 18 youtube 16 16

Even if I do a case insensitive grep and sum all matches I only get to 127608. How come these numbers are nowhere near to 200k? How do you deal with multiple entries?

Best, Matthijs (163.1.26.4 (talk) 10:56, 23 May 2008 (UTC))

When I had a look on that daily lists at dammit.lt more than a week ago, I had to recognize that those lists are totally inaccurate. As the script seems to be still from May 17, this probably has not changed yet. But I can tell you that the numbers shown at stats.grok.se are correct ;-) --- Best regards, Melancholie (talk) 01:16, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

mountly dump of wikistats

Hello, we talk in march about wikistats and the possibility to get a dump for toolserver. Would it be possible to get a utf8-transformed dump from may? That's would be great. Thanks. --Kolossos (talk) 20:11, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia traffic page - comparison option

Hi Henrik,

Awesome tool at http://stats.grok.se. Any chance you can add a feature to compare stats for two articles directly? It could work by overlapping a translucent bar graph over the first, for example, or similar to Google Trends (e.g. http://www.google.com/trends?q=facebook,+myspace).

Thanks, Dan Dandv (talk) 22:17, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

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Award

Letting editors actively know that their contributions are being viewed will only motivate them to improve Wikipedia further. Of course this also encompasses the rest of your contributions (I particularly love the Tromsdalen Church picture), so for your stats tool, your images and all your other contributions, I award you this Golden Wiki award for being an Awesome Wikipedian. Keep it up! WilliamH (talk) 12:48, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

French stats

Hi Henrik, as everyone I thank you for THE tool. :)

I'd like to know if you can explain why in the February French Top 1000, (Landes) is 3rd, %s 53tt, (Oise) 69th and (Doubs) 160th, H 175th, Landes, Oise and Doubs being departments of France but with no reason to be between parentheses.

And will it be tops for other months later ?

Encolpe (talk) 12:56, 4 May 2008 (UTC)

My guess would be some software automatically querying wikipedia and for some reason (a bug?) putting parentheses in the query. Yes, I just need to rewrite the script to generate the top lists, since I lost it due to a careless mistake :/ henrik•talk 15:33, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

Is there someone with access to raw logs who can find out who it is? If it's a buggy bot it should be blocked, it's really making a huge amount of buggy requests...

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mountly dump of wikistats

Hello, we talk in march about wikistats and the possibility to get a dump for toolserver. Would it be possible to get a utf8-transformed dump from june? That's would be great. Thanks. --Kolossos (talk) 20:11, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia traffic page

Hi. The tool only works till May 2008. Is that correct ? 88.207.137.252 (talk) 18:42, 1 June 2008 (UTC)

Deadline seems to hav passed without destruction, so maybe I'll point out a little bug. It registered 50k for one page in may, but the graph only went to 3k. IOW, the graph was off by ten times. The relative sense was probably correct, but numbers on the bars...DELETE THEM, because they don't fit...just give us the maxiumum of all months displayed. BrewJay (talk) 07:48, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

Page's views

If a page has been viewed '53 times'. If I enter two times to the same article. Is it another view?. I hope you understand me, I don't speak English very well. Tack. 190.49.124.209 (talk) 00:49, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

Yes, unfortunately. You can try this out easily by visiting randomstufftotestthis (do not use this link, use a secret, non-public one of your own) more than once (by reloading e.g.)! --- Best regards, Melancholie (talk) 01:06, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

Random article should work fine. There are 2 million articles and your chances of picking one with almost no hits are very high. Pick one with less than a few hundred per month and hit it a known number of times. Out of ten tries I got only one (Bob Dole) with more than 500, and three had less than 100. If you want a clean slate pick a user page that has had no hits (but does exist). Just put in some random characters for a starting point. There are 7 million users, but most do not have user pages. I tried Nwer for a starting point, and 4/5 had zero hits in May (I had to click next to find more than 2 that existed). 199.125.109.96 (talk) 18:17, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia article traffic statistics

Hello! Could you please update "Wikipedia article traffic statistics" for the months of june, july or more? Tank you very much for this counter. -194.144.13.52 (talk) 16:47, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

A little too early for July stats, but as the ad says "time to make the donuts" - the drop down box needs to have June added. The stats are there, just change the URL to 200806 to see them. 199.125.109.96 (talk) 18:21, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

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Stats raw data question

Hi there,

I took a quick peek to the stats raw data, hoping to do something with it, but I need your help understanding the records. It seems to me the data is in this format, in each of the files:

<language> <article> <within-hour count> <???>

like for example:

en Wolfgang_Amadeus_Mozart 155 6063362

... To me this means that the article Wolfgang_Amadeus_Mozart in English Wikipedia had 155 visits in the hour that the file was generated. But I do have two questions:

1. Are my assumptions correct? 2. What is the meaning of the last number?

Thanks, Miguel.mateo (talk) 14:00, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

Hi there again, ignore this post, other user answered my questions! Thanks regardless and thanks for a great tool! Miguel.mateo (talk) 15:13, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

stats.grok.se

Hi Henrik. Thank you very much for useful tool!

I have one small question to you. Is it possible to view the list of most popular articles from any category (for example, Category:Economics) and how? --Lime82 (talk) 15:34, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

Sorry to hijack this but I was just about to ask a question about this great tool as well - will there be a possibility to see visitor path ways (where the pages are linked from) in the future?--Cailil ^talk 23:10, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

Hi. First, I like your stat as well. And secondly, my wish is not as complicated as some other ones: will other projects like Wikisources be included as well? Thx, -jkb- (cs.source) 08:00, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

@-jkb-: They are ;-) See http://stats.grok.se/cs.s/200806/Hlavní_strana for example (and en.b, en.d, en.m, en.n, en.q, en.s, en.v || d=wikt, m=wikimedia) --- Greetings, Melancholie (talk) 10:18, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

Hm, I see, although it works only if I give there the full URL address like you did here above; it doesn't seem to be possible to choose from the lists there. OK, Thank a lot, -jkb- (cs.source) 10:38, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

Anti-Americanism

Sorry if I get emotional but I find the idea of certain editors that Anti-Americanism is just an imaginary construction frankly ludicrous. What I say may seem sarcastic but I am just trying to state the obvious fact that Anti-Americanism is a real thing happening in the real world. If people declare war on the US (as Osama did in 1998) or burn the American flag or shout out 'Death to America' or sack the American Embassy etc they are almost by definition anti-American. We have the same problem at the Anti-Catholicism article, with certain editors imagining that the subject is about politically correct attitudes and ignoring the fact that eg there were definate written down legislative acts against the Catholics in Britain, Ireland, Mexico etc. and confessions of faith which called the Pope 'the Anti-Christ'. I.e. that the topic is about real things happening to real people in the real world not just about POV 'attitudes'. Colin4C (talk) 10:11, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

A large problem from my understanding is that it is both. Osama in 1998 and crowds shouting death to America is obviously real anti-American sentiment. And no, that shouldn't be watered down with politically correct cultural relativism. However, it has also been used as a term to discredit legitimate criticism against U.S. policies. Like any nation, the US does both good and bad things. As the world's only super-power it is highly visible and always scrutinized. I think the article needs to show both of these sides. I rather like the "Definitions and usage" section of the current article, while the history section needs quite a bit of work (In that I agree with Life.temp). henrik•talk 12:30, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

Mmm, but Life.temp isn't arguing for work. He simply wants to remove as much material as he can. He's basically indicated that even if we source sections he's going to want to remove them. This is really not acceptable. If we add good, sourced material, I think we should consider blanking it vandalism. Speaking of which, I have done up the Degeneracy section. I'm pleased. Some surgery needs to be done to incorporate this and I would suggest that the article be unlocked. We can't sit here hostage to one editor.

As for whether it's both—yes, it is. I wrote most of the Definitions and Usage and I have no problem adding more to the second sense of the term elsewhere in the article. The difficulty is that, beyond Chomsky, there isn't a whole lot out there on it. If people bring quality sources arguing for it, we can certainly use them. Marskell (talk) 17:24, 18 May 2008 (UTC)

Well, obviously just removing material isn't the way to go forward. Your sandbox version of the Degeneracy section looks rather nice. There are a few tweaks I can think of though, but that can wait until it is in the article. :)

I've unprotected it now. While the issue hasn't been resolved yet, there hasn't been any more discussions and just waiting won't solve anything. henrik•talk 08:39, 21 May 2008 (UTC)

FYI: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Anti-Americanism#Truce —Preceding unsigned comment added by Life.temp (talk • contribs) 22:39, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

Arbitration? This is going nowhere. Marksell is reverting one-sentence changes by me without discussion--in the current case, he's done it six times. He has repeatedly stated a refusal to talk to me, e.g. "I have indicated I specifically don't want to speak with this editor..." [1] He is leaving edit comments like "checkmate", and making silly defenses of plagiarism in order to disagree with me. There's no interest in consensus here. The article has deep, fundamental problems regarding its labeling of other cultures, yet Marksell refuses to discuss one-sentence edits. He is subverting the basic rule of having an encyclopedia anyone can edit. Life.temp (talk) 09:25, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

• Have you given up? I tried another method of dispute resolution, but I doubt it will go anywhere: Wikipedia:Ethnic_and_cultural_conflicts_noticeboard#Anti-Americanism. Life.temp (talk) 22:00, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

At this point, I'm generally reverting LT on sight. I do check the edits; it's the same troll pattern. Marskell (talk) 22:11, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

Hit counts for Spanish Wikipedia to create a subset for XO laptops

Hi! My husband (who works at OLPC) and I have been working on creating a subset of Wikipedia pages that could be packaged into the OLPC XO-1 laptops (we're aiming for 35-40k articles = 80MB). Currently all the countries that have XO's are Spanish-speaking countries, so the appropriate wikipedia is es.wikipedia.org. We've tried to do this by counting the number of incoming links to pages and taking the most-linked pages, but this technique is failing to capture critical articles like Atom and Algebra (!). I think using traffic stats would result in a much more reasonable subset.

Do you have a file of es.wikipedia traffic stats that I could download? Top 100k is what I'm interested in, although I wouldn't mind having the whole shebang. Thanks! Madeleine ✉ ✍ 15:12, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

Replied via e-mail. henrik•talk 15:25, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

Hi Henrik, my name is Patrick and I'm going to deploy XO in Haiti in October. I have talked to Madeleine because I want to do a subset of Wikipedia pages for a French version of the OLPC wikipedia activity. She said that you could help me by giving me a copy of traffic stats for the French version of wikipedia that I could use for building the smaller database. Merci!. PatrickHetu (talk) 01:02, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

Wiki format

Hello

Could you please tell me how to convert this list to wiki format? I mean like # article name newline # article name ..or you convert it. thanks! (for the great tool:))--Alnokta (talk) 17:41, 18 May 2008 (UTC)

Any idea?--Alnokta (talk) 01:29, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

I used that in Notepad++'s search and replace and got what I wanted.

<tr><td>\d+</td><td><a[^>]+>([^<]+)</a></td><td>(\d+)</td></tr> => # [[\1]] \2

--Alnokta (talk) 21:33, 13 June 2008 (UTC)

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Mission, Vision and Values : UNCYCLOPEDIA

A false Wikipedia 'biography' By John Seigenthaler http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/editorials/2005-11-29-wikipedia-edit_x.htm

this is somehow linked in

http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Contents/Portals

uncyclopedia has been viewed 45121 times in 200805

http://stats.grok.se/en/200805/uncyclopedia

This is very much a beta service and may disappear or change at any time. Questions or comments should go to User:Henrik

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To Whom It May Concern:

Aside from the reports in USA Today; I am concerned about the link association of

http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

as I was researching the Third Industrial Revolution and it was this site that introduced a bizarre scenario. I was able to navigate the links directly into Wikipedia directly. Also, presenting in the same search the USA today article which presents a question in Validity

What is the purpose of this uncyclopedia?

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Stats

Hi, Henrik,

I saw the stats page here://stats.grok.se/about, which directs questions to you.

I'm not exactly sure what the fields are in the data dumps. Is the first field the language code, or is it a country code? The second field is the article title and the fourth field is the count. What is the third field? What is 'commons.m'?

What I would like to create is a similar stats page but only for the articles with associated geocodes (lat/lng).

I know I can download just the geocoded data elsewhere, so I assume I can just grab the titles from there and look them up in the stats data. That's not too bad, but is there an easier way?

75.101.2.31 (talk) 20:55, 18 June 2008 (UTC)

Statistics

Hello Hendrik, the stats from http://stats.grok.se/. We like them very much because they give the spirit that articles are visited more often than we thought (nl-wiki). Would it be possible to create such statistics too for other projects like Wikitionary and Wikinews for example? Greetings - Romaine (talk) 21:09, 18 June 2008 (UTC)

Freek out

OK, this freeks me out. I've written several articles and passed them through DYK. subpersonalities was an article I wrote only to help clear out WP:AR1. It had been a requested article for more than two years, so I figured no one would read it. For my subpersonalities article, bang, I get 10,000+ views on the day it appeared on DYK. So that got me thinking. Is it possible for you to generate stats that show the number of views for a DYK article for the day it appeared on DKY? What I would like to do is use those stats on deciding what new articles to generate based on the topics of most interested to DYK readers. Thanks. Bebestbe (talk) 06:01, 26 June 2008 (UTC)

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Wondering how much work it would be to make traffic statistics case sensitive

Currently Gnu and GNU come up with the same number.   Thanks, Daniel.Cardenas (talk) 00:00, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

+1, looks like you forgot to set your table field case-sensitive, raw data seems case sensitive - Gonioul (talk) 20:49, 1 June 2008 (UTC)

It's sort of a half-assed workaround towards counting redirects. I'll work on a proper solution instead, but I'm still on vacation. :) henrik•talk 21:55, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

text stats

Hi Henrik. Do you think you could provide also some info for each article in textual version, something like the following?

Article_name: 1294 views since 200712, average 23 views per day

Thanks, Waldir ^talk 11:50, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

If you prepend /json/ to the URL, you'll get the format in json format, which should be easily parsed into text. example henrik•talk 21:18, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

Thanks! But still, there's no way to get the total count without requesting one by one, data for all months available? Waldir ^talk 22:08, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

No, unfortunately not. henrik•talk 22:12, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

Page Statistics Utility

Henrik, I haven't been able to get your page statistics counter to show any data whatsoever, even for the Elvis Presley page! What am I doing wrong? Michael J. Farrand (talk) 20:01, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

I'm not sure. What's the exact URL that's not working for you? henrik•talk 21:19, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

applications of the hit counter tool

Thanks, Henrik. Many of us at WikiProject Oregon have made good use of your tool. For example I produce the page Wikipedia:WikiProject Oregon/Readership which is a compilation of data provided by your tool. It also gets mentioned in our new blog from time to time: http://wikiprojectoregon.wordpress.com/

A few questions:

• Is the heavy usage that my script makes of your tool an issue? The Readership talk page has full details, but a monthly update makes almost 3000 tool requests in short order.
• My script throws away most of the information provided by your tool, except the total monthly count. Is there a more efficient interface?
• If it says article X has 100 hits for a particular day, is there a chance some hits aren't counted for that interval?
• Your tool has a caveat that it might go away at any time. What are the chances?

Thank you very much! —EncMstr (talk) 23:11, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

To answer your questions in turn: Nah, don't worry about it. If you just run one or a few requests simultaneously the server won't choke. If you prepend /json/ to the URL, you'll get the format in json format, which is more lightweight and easily parseable. As far as I know, all hits should be counted. And I have no plans to remove the tool or to discontinue updating it, don't worry. henrik•talk 21:23, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

Welcome back from vacation, and thanks for the replies. It took a little experimentation to figure it out, but you meant, for example http://stats.grok.se/json/en/200805/Oregon which looks easier for the server, and just as easy for me to parse. Thanks. —EncMstr (talk) 21:41, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

Actually, I'm still on vacation for a while longer - only with internet access tonight :-). It is a bit easier for the server, though not significantly so. The main benefit is that your parser shouldn't break if I decide to update the layout of the page sometime in the fure. henrik•talk 21:46, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

Hit counter website

Hi, I have just discovered your website that tells you how many hits an article receives. Is this accurate? I just had a look at one of the articles that I wrote [[Bankstown Bunker|(Bankstown Bunker]). According to this website this article has received over a thousand hits per month. It seems like a lot for that kind of article. Adam (talk) (talk) 08:51, 13 June 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia does get a surprising amount of traffic. It's a top-10 website after all. :) henrik•talk 21:24, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

Life.temp

The user was finally blocked as a sockpuppet. Good to know my radar isn't off! Marskell (talk) 06:39, 15 June 2008 (UTC)

I'm not surprised, it was quite obvious it wasn't his first account. Have things settled down over at Anti-americanism? I'm on vacation since about three weeks, and my internet access has been limited. This is my first night on the internet in a while. :) henrik•talk 21:27, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

SeaPort Airlines deletion retrieve

I recently created a page about the new SeaPort Airline. It was deleted almost immediately but I disagree with that decision. It is a notable entry.

May I have the source code back, please? I plan on re-posing with more notable info (note my sources) namely how it's interesting that there is a new airline in today's industry woes and high gas prices.

Thank you, mfrk —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mfrk (talk • contribs) 06:04, 18 June 2008 (UTC)

Replied at users talk. henrik•talk 21:58, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

Stats

Just dropping by to say thank you for creating the stats.grok.se tool. It's great and usefull. Jtico (talk) 18:23, 20 June 2008 (UTC) (From es-wikipedia)

Thanks! henrik•talk 21:29, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

Do bot visits count for the stats.grok.se statistics?--FocalPoint (talk) 08:11, 22 June 2008 (UTC)

Yes, bots count. henrik•talk 21:29, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia article traffic statistics

Hi. Sorry about this but I was checking the Wikipedia article traffic statistics of the article "Michael_Sellers_(actor)" and it shows zero viewership for all months. How can this be possible? If you have the time please let me know. Thanks. --Dr.K. (talk) 23:31, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

For the month of June 2008, I get 853 views. Bebestbe (talk) 05:52, 26 June 2008 (UTC)

Hm, I get views for all months I've checked. Please give me the exact URL that gives 0 hits, so I can see what is wrong. henrik•talk 21:33, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

Traffic stats tool - how are redirects handled?

Looking at some less-viewed articles and their redirects, I noticed some odd things with the traffic stats tool:

• Rhythm method has been a redirect to calendar-based methods since the beginning of May. And yet, the tool is showing (for June) around 700 hits per day for "rhythm method" vs. only around 150 hits per day for "calendar-based methods". If someone is redirected, wouldn't they generate a page hit on both articles? Even if they click back through to the redirect page, that should only generate (at most) twice as many hits there (I would think).
• Sperm count has been a redirect to semen analysis for almost a year. And yet, for the week 7-15 June 2008, "sperm count" is showing around 400 hits per day while "semen analysis" gets only about 100. The rest of the month, "semen analysis" gets more hits, as one would expect.

Any idea what is happening here? Lyrl^Talk _C 01:58, 29 June 2008 (UTC)

Tch, I wish I'd scrolled from the bottom of the talk page when looking to see if this had been mentioned before!

It has bugged me for a while that the tool only displays hits to the article name exactly as written - to get the true number of visits to a page, one has to add up all the pages that redirect to it too. Is there any way that redirects (which are quite easy to find using the wiki API) can be added to the article they point to?

Thanks, Martin (Smith609 – Talk) 22:27, 30 June 2008 (UTC)

Article traffic tool.

Your great tool needs to be updated for 200807 drop down option to see article traffic for July month. --gppande «talk» 13:41, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

Stats

http://stats.grok.se/de/200805/Nokia - looks pretty strange. I don't think it's some news article, as this would have been read days after, too. Do you have any idea?
Thanks for the excellent work! 83.171.189.104 (talk) 21:14, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

Perhaps it has the same cause as this: http://stats.grok.se/en/200806/D.%20B._Cooper It was featured article that day. —EncMstr (talk) 21:23, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia article traffic statistics

Hello and thanks much for the useful Wikipedia article traffic statistics. I have just made that experience that when a page is moved to a new title, the article traffic statistics doesn't relate the old and new names, meaning that you need to find and use the old name to have the statistics prior to the re-naming. Could be a suggestion to improve the system. However, I find it great to be able to estimate the usefulness of each article, it's a good motivation for increasing the quality of some of them. Cheers. --Jibi44 (talk) 12:45, 3 July 2008 (UTC)

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Hello, I do not speak English well, let me ask because the number of visits was not updated, we are already on July 4 and is not updated. Thank you for your understanding. Digary (talk) 20:14, 4 July 2008 (UTC)

Million to one

But million to one happens 9 times out of 10 ;-)

I like these kinds of articles to have a small table of examples, as it gives people a feel for the realities, so I added it back in, and am adding in a couple of other tables of examples of power/weight from different areas.- (User) WolfKeeper (Talk) 14:35, 5 July 2008 (UTC)

Grok stats

Nice tool! Could you add an option to see this months stats? --EncycloPetey (talk) 17:38, 8 July 2008 (UTC)

What happened to the stats tool

I hope it will be fixed soon. Chrisgj (talk) 15:48, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

The stats tool is wonderful, I hope you can fix it, cause it benefits a lot in all the wikipedias where this tool was available. I come from the Wikipedia in spanish. Good luck. 333 (talk) 03:04, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the tool!--QIrus (talk) 10:50, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

Stats tool is really useful. ¿Can you update it for show traffic in June? I come from Spanish Wikipedia, like 333. Thank you very much. --HUB (talk) 07:26, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

Would be really glad, if you could fix/update the tool! Thanks a lot! --Happolati (talk) 11:38, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

It's working again thanks (in the link at top of your browswer change 200805 to 200806).Chrisgj (talk) 15:38, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

Hej Henrik. Thanks a lot for the stats tool. What about the 31st of May? All figures are Zero for that day still. Tack, --Gereon K. (talk) 08:47, 7 June 2008 (UTC)

Helo Henrik, it stoped again 3 days ago. --Grundig (talk) 11:39, 20 June 2008 (UTC)

Hi Henrik, the tool is very useful. Your can actually see how the hits go up once an article has been cross linked properly with other relevant articles (surprise), and its helps prioritising articles that need improvement. However, sorry to be nagging, the counter stops at 200806.... can you update it so it shows 200807, please? Also, I know you have a life, but something really useful would be if one could see "click though", i.e. how many hits have been directed to the page from for example Google or other Wikipedia articles (integrating the "what links here" feature to some extend). --SasiSasi (talk) 11:27, 12 July 2008 (UTC)

Counter - Teljari

Hej Henrik Vil du vara så snäll att uppföra "the counter", räknaren för SG-hljómplötur. Tack så mycket Kristjan —Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.144.13.52 (talk) 22:54, 5 July 2008 (UTC)

THE HISTORY TRAFFIC STATISTICS IS NOT WORKING IN SPANISH IN JULY —Preceding unsigned comment added by 189.152.4.131 (talk) 05:53, 7 July 2008 (UTC)

Same to Italian... any problem?--Roberto Mura it (talk) 06:07, 10 July 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia article traffic statistics strangeness

I love your "Wikipedia article traffic statistics" tool. But I've noticed a strange phenomenon: in some cases, if one requests stats for a time period before an article was created, one gets a few, random looking, hits. Example: Adirondack Canoe Classic was created on May 3, 2008. But the traffic count tool shows 8 page views in April. Any idea what's going on? -- Mwanner | Talk 12:29, 10 July 2008 (UTC)

Could be red links getting hit. Wasted Time R (talk) 12:56, 10 July 2008 (UTC)

Ah, so if a redlink exists, and someone follows it, that is counted? Interesting. Thanks, Mwanner | Talk 14:09, 10 July 2008 (UTC)

I did notice that too. Your tool is fantastic!! JRN08 (talk) 13:39, 12 July 2008 (UTC) I love your tool, too. But why your side show only the months dezember 07 to june 08? is there a problem?? please help. thanks! -- —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.185.238.144 (talk) 19:28, 11 July 2008 (UTC)

Counter for SG-hljómplötur

Hello Could you please update the counter for SG-hljómplötur to July, August, September, October, November, December 2008. Thank you very much.-194.144.13.52 (talk) 09:18, 12 July 2008 (UTC) Kristján Frímann —Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.144.13.52 (talk) 09:14, 12 July 2008 (UTC)

Hi

please when will you update http://stats.grok.se/ to include July? thanks —Preceding unsigned comment added by Melitikus (talk • contribs) 19:48, 12 July 2008 (UTC)

• He says he's on vacation at the top of this page. Phlegm Rooster (talk) 04:12, 13 July 2008 (UTC)

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Wikipedia statistics for the month of July is not available.

Wikipedia statistics for the month of July is not available. 70.110.204.30 (talk) 13:35, 12 July 2008 (UTC)

I second that.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 01:17, 13 July 2008 (UTC)

It's available since yesterday, but in the link you have to change 200806 to 200807. Chrisgj (talk) 19:15, 14 July 2008 (UTC)

Live counters

Hi Henrik,

Cool tool, I do have a question though: It works in one of my PCs but not in the other. In User:Henrik/live-edit-counter you mentioned it won't work "... if you do not have javascripts installed ..." what did you mean by that?

Thanks, Miguel.mateo (talk) 00:21, 16 July 2008 (UTC)

Statistics

Hi, I've tried today your statistics at stats.grok.se and I've got the following puzzling results:

• en:Main_Page: 716201 times in 200806
• es:Portada: 43649950 times in 200806
• de:Wikipedia: 340 times in 200806

Quite unexpected if correct. Cheers, --Ascánder (talk) 03:32, 16 July 2008 (UTC)

I found 481086716 for "en:Main_Page", and 241543 for"de:Wikipedia" (which is the German page on the entry 'Wikipedia'; the main page there is called Hauptseite and gives 46876719). Nethency (talk) 19:05, 16 July 2008 (UTC)

stats.grok.se

Hi there, great tool! Have you considered adding it to the Toolserver? Bjelleklang - talk Bug Me 22:11, 16 July 2008 (UTC)

Traffic Statistics

Hey thanks for creating that app that counts the searches of terms. Are there any known bugs in it? I was just playing with it and searched the term "recession" and in January it was searched 450,000 times and in June it was only searched 87,000 times. I wouldn't think that the difference would have been that big. In fact, I was thinking that it would have been more popular not than 6 months ago?

There was one really heavy day in January on January 22 when the Fed did a surprise rate cut based on recession fears.

Ekcnho (talk) 22:13, 16 July 2008 (UTC)

statistics

Your statistics page is very interesting. How often do you update it? Lenny FalkeLeonard Falke (talk) 16:36, 17 July 2008 (UTC)

FYI

Just so you know, I've transwikied your automod.js script to the Simple English Wikipedia at simple:User:Hersfold/automod.js. If you've got a global account, let me know and I'll move it to your userspace there. Someone wants my status template on Simple, and of course it won't work right without your script. If there's any problem with that, please let me know. Hersfold ^(t/a/c) 21:39, 18 July 2008 (UTC)

Phooey. I should have known better than to try this myself. For some reason, I can't get the scripts to work on Simple. I thought I'd moved everything I needed over there, but perhaps not. If you get the chance (I know you're on vacation, I am as well, ironically), could you take a look and see what I'm missing? It's probably something obvious, but having not written the script, I'm not sure what to look for. Here's the links:

• simple:User:Hersfold/StatusTemplate
• simple:User:Hersfold/automod.js
• simple:User:Hersfold/automod-dev.js
• simple:User:Hersfold/monobook.js

If you don't have the time, don't worry about it, this is nowhere close to even the lowest priority, but any help you can provide is, as always, appreciated. Thanks. Hersfold ^(t/a/c) 22:15, 18 July 2008 (UTC)

Traffic stats tool for smaller Wikis?

Is it possible to activate the Traffic stats tool for smaller wikis like wikibooks, wikisource and wikiversity?

-- MichaelFrey (talk) 15:57, 29 June 2008 (UTC) 'Italic text'

I want to second that. Beeing a wikibook autor since two years (Blenderbook) I would realy like to know how many people visit and read it. Actually our book has round about 350 pages and a feedback by trafic stats would be very appreciated. --80.140.179.52 (talk) 13:26, 7 July 2008 (UTC)

For example see http://stats.grok.se/en.b/200807/Main_Page | http://wikistics.falsikon.de/latest/wikibooks/en/ --- Best regards, Melancholie (talk) 04:23, 22 July 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia Page Hit Statistics

hej Henrik,

How does the stats.grok.se work? What is the mechanism?

Clas in Atlanta, GA —Preceding unsigned comment added by Classivertsen (talk • contribs) 16:00, 4 July 2008 (UTC)

See http://stats.grok.se/about for this. --- Best regards, Melancholie (talk) 04:23, 22 July 2008 (UTC)

reporter with question on Wiki traffic stats

Henrik, I'm a writer with the Washington Post Sunday Magazine. I've got a feature article about Wiki running on August 10th. (Jay Walsh and Wiki headquarters know about this.) My editor wants to include a sidebar with statistics on the ten most popular Wiki articles. I checked the stats.grok.se site, but the most currents numbers I can get are from February, 2008. Am I doing something wrong...or has the traffic list not been updated since February? Thanks, Tom Dunkel

P.S. It's quicker to reply to my private email address: tom@tomdunkel.com —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.248.26.35 (talk) 16:19, 17 July 2008 (UTC)

As Henrik is still on vacation, I will give you a (tentative) answer. The toplist has not been updated since February, that's true. But recently, I extended my own stats; so I am also analysing enwiki and all other wikis now (before, only smaller wikis had been considered; was just approaching from the other direction). You can find my evolving toplist at wikistics.falsikon.de/latest/wikipedia/en! To figure out the Top 10 accurately, you really should wait until the end of this month. Do also compare with Henrik's daily charts (and his toplist from February) to see whether the number of hits for an article is steady-going (caused naturally) or shows a (maybe big) peak because that article once had been the Article of the Day or just was linked on the Main_Page for a while for example! --- Best regards, Melancholie (talk) 04:23, 22 July 2008 (UTC)

Comparing page statistics

Hi Henrik,

I really like the article traffic statistics (http://stats.grok.se/) I just wondered if it is possible to compare more than one article at a time? Or look at statistics over a longer period than 1 month?

I also wondered how often the Top 1000 Pages list would be updated?

Many thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Lookhear123 (talk • contribs) 09:36, 21 July 2008 (UTC)

@Lookhear123: For a toplist, also see http://wikistics.falsikon.de/latest/wikipedia/en/ (evolving) --- Best regards, Melancholie (talk) 04:23, 22 July 2008 (UTC)

updated dump of wiki stats for WP 0.7

If you remember, I had contacted you in March about using your data to help with the WP release version. That project is coming along, and we are almost ready to start making final selections. As part of that, I need to update the hit count data that is factored into the article rankings. I looked on stats.grok.se, but the only raw data there seems to be for July.

If possible, it would be a great help if we could get several months worth of hit counts, by day, for enwiki. Would it be possible for you to generate these as a dump from the database? Any machine-readable format would be fine with me. Thanks again, — Carl (CBM · talk) 18:26, 17 July 2008 (UTC)

@CBM: Maybe http://wikistics.falsikon.de/latest/wikipedia/en/ (evolving) can help you. Maybe not yet; but at the end of this month there will be a full monthly dump, containing more than just 500/1000 pages. It's best to compare list items with Henrik's daily charts, to figure out whether the number of hits for an article is steady-going or shows a (maybe big) peak because that article once had been the Article of the Day or just was linked on the Main_Page or even because of spam etc.! --- Best regards, Melancholie (talk) 04:23, 22 July 2008 (UTC)

Now I'm more confused. I downloaded the data from May from here and made some counts myself. My counts are much lower than yours and Henrik's.. For example, the data for May 1st has no views at all for the "Airlines" article. Do you know what's up? — Carl (CBM · talk) 17:55, 23 July 2008 (UTC)

On investigation, I think that the 'daily' data there is very incomplete - the hourly data for July does seem more reasonable. But since the hourly data isn't available very far back, I do need to ask if you can share the complete daily data that you have. 19:11, 23 July 2008 (UTC)

Yes, the daily raw data there is still totally inaccurate; but that's why stats.grok.se and THEwikiStics exist ;-)

There will be a monthly dump soon, containing much more than 1000 pages; I will give you a download link then. --- Best regards, Melancholie (talk) 20:22, 23 July 2008 (UTC)

Page Access stats

Hi, You have a great access statistics graph. It is eye opening! Does it end in June 2008? I see no July data. Please reply on my talk page. Thanks. History2007 (talk) 04:04, 20 July 2008 (UTC)

I think you need to add 200807 to the drop-down box. I manually changed the # in the URL, and it worked, so I assumed the field just needs to be updated. —Erik (talk • contrib) - 23:26, 20 July 2008 (UTC)

Hi, the statistics semms to stop by July 12th for the greek wikipedia. Can you check this please? You've done an excelent tool. Thanks a lot. --Grundig (talk) 11:05, 22 July 2008 (UTC)

The same is true of the English-language Wikipedia -- although the URL can be manipulated, there are still no results past July 12. Henrik, I hope that vacation isn't too long! This is one of the most valuable Wikipedia tools I have come across, and I hope it remains operational in the future. Please let us know at your earliest convenience. WWB (talk) 21:41, 23 July 2008 (UTC)

Article Traffic

I love your article traffic utility. Right now, however, the combo box won't let you select a month later than June 2008 (i.e. you can't select July 08). But the raw data is there for each day up to the 24th of July. Can that box allow selecting the current month? Bubba73 (talk), 03:46, 24 July 2008 (UTC)

Hej Henrik- I like your traffic stats gadget as well. A note on English past tense: for any month but the present, you want the result line to read was viewed instead of has been viewed. Thanks for the stats! -Eric ^talk 20:47, 24 July 2008 (UTC)

Page view drop down not working

The July 2008 drop down is not working on the page view statistics tool.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 19:12, 24 July 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia article traffic statistics

Hi Henry,

this is a great tool. But there is no selection for July 2008. Hope the tool will sustain.

Bye Michaelt1964 62.225.112.236 (talk) 11:09, 25 July 2008 (UTC)

Add Link

i´d like to add in my user's page this link http://stats.grok.se/es/, this your link. Could you help me?? Please look for me in the Spanish Wikipedia.--Juan Flores A. (talk) 23:59, 25 July 2008 (UTC)

More on Wikipedia article traffic statistics

I'd like to add my voice to the comments so far:

• Congratulations on a great tool.
• It'd be good if one could submit a file of article names to allow batch processing.

Robert P. O'Shea (talk) 06:19, 26 July 2008 (UTC)

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Stats site API bug

There's a bug with the API on the stats site, if the page title has double quotes ( " ) in it, they aren't escaped in the JSON output. Mr.Z-man 00:17, 31 July 2008 (UTC)

Direct input URL does work?

Drop down list ended with 200806, June 2008. I have made new article EcoCute on 14:58, 10 July 2008.
Direct input "http://stats.grok.se/en/200807/article" manually, example http://stats.grok.se/en/200807/EcoCute shows only 10, 11 12th traffic in July. It is hard to believe that no one see EcoCute from 13th July. http://stats.grok.se/en/200807/Obama also zero traffic since 13th July. It's obviously something wrong from 13th July. Is such direct input of URL with "YYYYMM/article" correct method ?--Namazu-tron (talk) 02:15, 3 August 2008 (UTC)

Norwegian

Hi! I love the stats tool. But there are two Norwegian wikipedias, and you have stats for just the bigger one. They are:

• Norwegian (nynorsk) nn
• Norwegian (bokmål) nb or no

Thanks! --Hordaland (talk) 09:33, 4 August 2008 (UTC)

Ooops, sorry. "Norwegian (nynorsk)" is also on the list. The one called just "Norwegian" should be "Norwegian (bokmål)". Thanks. --Hordaland (talk) 09:37, 4 August 2008 (UTC)

Access to data

Hello, Henrik. Hope you have a good vacation! There's no rush for answers to this. First please let me add my thanks to the pile for your page view tool. This thank you is long overdue. Can you please tell me where to find either Wikipedia server logs or part of their data? Also can you tell me who has access to them? I had thought I read somewhere on meta that only one class of user or maybe it was employees of Wikimedia have access to the logs--on "System administrators" it says any "Wikimedia system administrators" has access. I assume that means only the persons listed and not admins on daughter projects? (As background, I looked around a bit, found your tool runs through 30 June (200806) as of today. Data for the English Wikipedia is dated "(!!Oct 2006!!)" on Wikipedia Statistics site map which links to "database dump" which is 404 not found. Thus these two questions.) Best wishes. -SusanLesch (talk) 18:49, 5 August 2008 (UTC)

The data comes from http://dammit.lt/wikistats/ 199.125.109.65 (talk) 15:39, 6 August 2008 (UTC)

Great. I will try to look around and ask User:Midom who seems to own that domain as well as be a Wikimedia system administrator. Thank you! -SusanLesch (talk) 19:12, 7 August 2008 (UTC)

Please hurry back from your vacation. The tool only goes as far as the end of June and I can't get my page hitcount fix! Gatoclass (talk) 05:18, 6 August 2008 (UTC)

Stats tool

Looks like I have nothing new to say, but:

1. Your stats tool is AWESOME
2. It would be nice if it could have data for after June. -Oreo Priest ^talk 20:30, 12 August 2008 (UTC)

Need the Potentia Media page back. I am trying to make it what it was listed as

11:11, 30 December 2007 Henrik (Talk | contribs) deleted "Potentia Media" ‎ (It is blatant advertising for a company, product, group, service or person that would require a substantial rewrite in order to become an encyclopedia article. (CSD G11))

Need the Potentia Media page back. I am trying to make it what it was listed as. A bit of help for Charity would be nice. It's not a business, it's a charity. Below is an email I just got in. I represent at 503C3, Sisters in the Building Trades. My e-mail is shyeshye@aol.com I have no idea how to use this site other than to read it. So a bit of help would be nice. Lots of work trying to change the world on a shoe string. Help is appreciated. It was a good article, just a few points that needed to be made real, and I was working on that as you will see below. Explaining a charity and what it does is not a bad thing. And all 3 charity's involved in this request are easily varifiable. Great site. First time I have had an issue. Thanks for your work. It is appreciated.

Dear Melina,

Thank you for writing to us and for the wonderful work that you do! Yes, Potentia media is a beautiful project and unfortunately, we dont have a partnership with them. As you can see on Potentia's web site, they currently partner with CARE. However, we are talking to them about potentially partnering with them and should that happen, we would mutually feature links to each other's web sites.

I tried to look up the wikipedia entry where Potentia mentions they partner with the Global Fund but was unable to find it - can you please send me the link?

Also, considering the wonderful work you do with Sisters in the Building Trades, Id like to quickly mention one of our grantee partners in Nicaragua that works to train women in unconventional trades like building, carpentry and so on - do check them out at www.mujeresconstructoras.org

Thank you so much for writing to us,

Warmly,

Preeti

-- Preeti Mangala Shekar Communications Associate Global Fund for Women 1375 Sutter Street, Suite 400 San Francisco, CA 94109 T: 415 202-7640, Ext 354 F: 415 202-8604 preeti@globalfundforwomen.org www.globalfundforwomen.org Read Global Fund updates on our blog: http://www.globalfundforwomen.org/cms/blog/

Wikipedia web statistics

hi,

i am a researcher at Inria in France. I am doing a research over the domain name system and, in order to validate the results of my research, i would need real web statistics from a range of different websites with different users numbers. So i figured that wikipedia would be perfect, since you have multiple domains, e.g. en.wikipedia.org, it.wikipedia.org, with a broad range of hits. Given the open nature of wikipedia, shown in projects like yours at stats.grok.se, i was wondering if you could help me to find this kind of information regarding wikipedia.

Thank you My email address is: perito@inrialpes.fr

Individual Page Stats for South Ossetia War

Dear Henrik,

Hi.

I am working on page usage of wikipedia as part of an academic research project on media and war. I was wondering whether I could stats on the page dedicated to the South Ossetia war - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_South_Ossetia_War. I want to track these stats on a hourly basis if possible over the course of the month of August 2008. Any help would be gratefully received! Biologylessons (talk) 15:10, 12 August 2008 (UTC)

Biologylessons, if you ever hear back from Henrik about the stats for the 2008 South Ossetia war article, I'd love to know - I'm also extremely interested in taking a look at the page view metrics of this article! It boggles my mind that a page view counter isn't enabled for Wikipedia - we're running MediaWiki at work (an older version, no less!!), and the number of page views shows at the bottom of every page, plus we can look at weekly/monthly reports - clearly the capability is built into the software, but just as clearly, Wikipedia chooses not to make this information public - fie upon them!!! Akindofmagick (talk) 19:45, 15 August 2008 (UTC)

I will do that individual analysis for you! Starting with August 7. Will take two days before there are the first results, is that ok? --- Best regards, Melancholie (talk) 20:37, 15 August 2008 (UTC)

First day: 2008 South Ossetia war (protagonists (day before)); not yet interesting, event not yet resounded throughout the land on 2008-08-07... --Melancholie (talk) 20:56, 17 August 2008 (UTC)

Further comments: User_talk:Biologylessons#2008_South_Ossetia_war --Melancholie (talk) 23:29, 17 August 2008 (UTC)

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Wikipedia article traffic statistics

When will there be a stats of July? 217.233.246.114 (talk) 19:25, 28 July 2008 (UTC)

... and of August? --Hans-Jürgen Hübner (talk) 15:55, 28 August 2008 (UTC)

Stats tool for page views

The stats tool stopped working for counts on pages after June 2008. The drop down menus extends to June 2008 and no later.

Yes I was just about to ask about this as well. Hello, may I find out when this will be updated or if there is another place to go. It was quite interesting to creat something and then see how many people are viewing it. It kind of makes it worth while knowing that someone is reading your material. Adam (talk) 03:29, 3 August 2008 (UTC)

Ditto - make that thank you very much - Smallbones (talk) 05:19, 28 August 2008 (UTC)

Din statistiksida för Wikipediaartiklar

Hej,

Din utmärkta statistikservice för Wikipediaartiklar går bara fram till och med juni i år.

När kommer du att uppdatera den att också visa statistik för juli, aug och fram till årets slut ...?

De rådata statistiken baseras på finns ju på http://dammit.lt/wikistats/

Bästa hälsningar,

(Thebee (talk) 10:51, 27 August 2008 (UTC))

Hello, this is English Wikipedia.Chrisgj (talk) 17:55, 28 August 2008 (UTC)

Google translation: Translation: Swedish » English 199.125.109.65 (talk) 01:56, 29 August 2008 (UTC)

Your statistiksida for Wikipediaartiklar

Hello,

Your excellent statistical for Wikipediaartiklar goes only up to June this year.

When will you update it to show statistics for July, August and until the end of the year ...?

The raw statistics are based on are, of course, on http://dammit.lt/wikistats/

Best regards,