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We can't turn off VE and then "expect to be the main focus of development"? Seems petty. And pointless. How does the language of a wiki that a VE bug was found in bear upon the importance of that bug? In most cases it doesn't. The bug could reoccur on any wiki. A bug is a bug, end of story.--greenrd (talk) 17:16, 16 November 2013 (UTC)

However in practice the bug/feature line tends to blur a bit so its fairly reasonable that features for other projects be given priority. If their work squashes some bugs in the process thats all to the good for when we next look at VE.©[[user:Geni|Geni]] (talk) 23:03, 16 November 2013 (UTC)

If the WMF concentrated more on issues brought forwards by the community than we would likely have more successful projects. For example I brought forwards one significant issue I see (not enough technical tools to deal with copyright infringement [1]). Not sure if it will change anything though. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) (if I write on your page reply on mine) 11:02, 17 November 2013 (UTC)

I read : "the current figures are staggeringly lower—almost universally in the 200,000s—for unknown reasons". There is a simple explanation, stats.grok.se only counts the hits in HTTP, not HTTPS. If you are not convinced, see the stats for this Signpost issue [2]. Many anonymous readers use HTTP, but not the registered users anymore. Cantons-de-l'Est (talk) 09:30, 17 November 2013 (UTC)

Ah so you mean this might simply be a technical issue with counting? Doc James (talk · contribs · email) (if I write on your page reply on mine) 11:00, 17 November 2013 (UTC)

Maybe the software guy who wrote that program never expected to count anything else than HTTP requests. He can modify the program, but if I am right, he has no intention to enhance the program in order to count the HTTPS requests. I would guess that he knows the problem, but cannot figure out an easy way to change the program. Cantons-de-l'Est (talk) 23:55, 18 November 2013 (UTC)

Nope does not appear to be the issue [3] Doc James (talk · contribs · email) (if I write on your page reply on mine) 08:55, 21 November 2013 (UTC)