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 next user should stumble upon them unless they are me.
Yet, wikistats tries to make be believe that this tiny project has 400,000 or 500,000 page views each month, and has had so for a long time, http://stats.wikimedia.org/wiktionary/EN/TablesPageViewsMonthly.htm (I'm not talking about January 2012, which seems to have been an error, and reports 2-3 times that many views.) My guess is that da.wiktionary has 4,000 page views per month, not 400,000. It's more likely that 400,000 is some background noise, an offset number that should be subtracted from the number of page views for any project. If you look at the log files for just one day, you should see my IP address (85.228.something) and 3-4 other users who have been editing lately, and not many more people, but perhaps a bunch of interwiki bots. We need an explanation to these vastly inflated page view statistics. -- Lars Aronsson (l...@aronsson.se) Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
