Re: [Wikitech-l] Page view stats we can believe in

2013-02-13 Thread Diederik van Liere
Hi all, Lars, Rupert thanks for flagging this and you are quite right: the numbers are too high because webstatscollector, the software that does the counts, just counts every request as a hit including bots, error pages etc. I am planning on running a sprint at the Amsterdam Hackathon to built a

Re: [Wikitech-l] Page view stats we can believe in

2013-02-13 Thread Lars Aronsson
On 02/14/2013 12:03 AM, rupert THURNER wrote: this means 569 pages accessed in this hour, at least once. Thanks for taking the time to do this check! This number already is unreasonable for an obscure project with 8000 articles. da.d Speciel:Eksporter/engelsk 2 7818 Should Special:Export ev

Re: [Wikitech-l] Page view stats we can believe in

2013-02-13 Thread rupert THURNER
acording to http://stats.grok.se/da.d/latest90/mandag has been viewed 127 times in the last 3 months, and ranks on 927. the raw pagecount files are here: http://dumps.wikimedia.org/other/pagecounts-raw/ i then took an arbitrary file and looked into it, at midnight, i guess UTC, feb 1st. as all pro

[Wikitech-l] Page view stats we can believe in

2013-02-13 Thread Lars Aronsson
I stumbled on the Danish Wiktionary, of all projects. Danish is the 68th biggest language of Wiktionary, and has a little more than 8,000 articles in total. Most of these articles are very short and provide no value to a reader. There is no reason to link to them, and so very unlikely that the nex