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wondering about tracking page hits

Henrik, Someone from the information team sent me a link to http://stats.grok.se as a means of tracking hits. Can you tell me how reliable you think the data there is? Could you email me at steven.gangbar@sunlife.com?

Thanks a lot, Steven —Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.94.61.100 (talk) 20:21, 3 October 2008 (UTC)

It's answered on the FAQ page. • 21:38, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

Miroj

I like the advice you gave me. It's really great. I need the MBENZNL page once more or I might put my last saved copy into the sandbox. I have a reason to think that Dutch Wikipedia will greatly appreciate it as I now have several more articles and magazine listings. I have a great belief that (one day) internet credibility will register as not being against the spirit of Wikipedia. A person can indeed contribute far more in virtual space than in real life as it removes the barriers of distance and time. Truly space warping stuff. Miroj (talk) 23:30, 3 October 2008 (UTC)

page hit count suggestion

As I've already told you, this is one of the greatest idea in Wikipedia. I just want to suggest you an improvement, I don t think it s very difficult to implement: Just under the day number, it would be interesting to add the initial of the day of the week, i.e m=monday, t=tuesday and so on. It would be a hint about when people mostly consult such or such an article or about biases concernening week-end connections and so son. Thanks and regards, --82.226.81.149 (talk) 07:07, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

I tried to do that initially, I'll see if I can revive some of the old code. • 21:56, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

Top Stats History

1) Thanks! 2) Is there history of previous top lists? Meaning http://stats.grok.se/en/top/ shows Most viewed articles in 200808 Can I get for 200807 200806 200805 etc? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.80.134.168 (talk) 10:59, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

Not currently. In my long term plan, I hope to be able to save different top lists. • 21:56, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

Note that there is a complementary tool dedicated to toplists that has older lists still available. --- Best regards, Melancholie (talk) 07:19, 28 October 2008 (UTC)

And a much better tool at that too :) I'll redirect any further queries about toplists to you! • 08:07, 28 October 2008 (UTC)

AFC "Tool"

Is it ok if I make (or attempt to at least) a derivative version User:Henrik/js/afc-helper.js that is compatible with the current format of WP:AFC? ^{Talk, My master} 22:10, 6 October 2008 (UTC)

Absolutely! • 21:56, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

stats.grok.se

Hi Henrik, i am using your statistics to get an overview how often the articles of our project are viewed. For that i am more interested in the year count then in the monthly statistics. By accident i found that your site is able to offer yearly statistics if the URL is shortened to the year. Currently i can see that the statistics for september are available, but they can not be seen in the statistics for the complete year (eg month vs year). Will this statistic be updated later on, or is it deprecated and not to be used? --87.78.157.38 (talk) 09:26, 7 October 2008 (UTC)

No, it's a hidden feature. :) I'll add january and july to those stats as well, but it might take a little while. • 21:56, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia article traffic statistics

This is a nice tool to have and I have it sitting quietly in my sidebar for when my curiosity about the popularity of an article is aroused... Do the stats show unique hits or is it a total number? Cheers. -- Alan Liefting (talk) - 09:14, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

Total number. • 21:56, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

vandalism dweeb

There's some dweeb who has made a couple of really stupid edits on some Batman-related articles. (220.239.33.244). He's getting on my nerves and I have a funny feeling he's gonna create more havoc, but I'm not entirely sure what to do - I'm a kind of new editor, and yeah. I thought telling an administrator would be the best thing to do. ~ 11:30, 9 October 2008 (UTC)

I hope someone has taken care of that now. My wiki time keeps getting interrupted by external events; first I was away for the most of the summer - now I'm moving to a new town and switching jobs. I need a wiki monastery :) • 21:56, 27 October 2008 (UTC) 

One question about the page hits counter

Hi Henrik, Thanks for the really nice counter which I use often and find very helpful! I wanted to ask you something: our article Love dart was started a week ago, on October 3rd of this year. However when I look at the counter results for that article, the counter shows some hits in earlier months, well before the article was even started: Sept 8, Sept 29, Aug 16, July 10th, April 23, even Feb 15. Why is this? Is it just a glitch, or is that due to people searching for an article with that title? Thanks for your time. Could you answer on my talk page if you get a chance? Thanks so much Invertzoo (talk) 14:29, 9 October 2008 (UTC)

I have the similar occasion, and I am interpreting that the article "none-existed" has been searched and/or attempted to view "none-existed". Any way, let's wait Henrik answer.--Namazu-tron (talk) 16:13, 13 October 2008 (UTC)

That is accurate. If people try to view the non-existent page, it'll faithfully be counted even though no page currently exist. • 21:56, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

This is actually a very useful feature! It may be useful to identify the most common queries that people enter which do not return a page (i.e., "page views" for non-existent pages), and use that list as fodder for a Wikipedia project: either creating articles for such terms, or setting up apropriate redirects. (It is a bit like a project of "filling in red links", with the difference that in this case we know that not only red links exist, but people actually follow them - or they even try to a get to a (non-existent) page to which no red link points!). On a related note, it may be interesting to analyze the usage data in various ways to see what people are looking for - i.e., as a guidance as to what pages may need editors' attention the most. For example, with respect to articles about places, one can plot a cool "attention map": at the geographical coordinates of each city, plot a circle whose area is proportional to the number of queries to the city's article... Vmenkov (talk) 12:46, 4 November 2008 (UTC)

@Non-existent pages: Note that there is Wikipedia:Most_missed_articles, see Special:Statistics. --- Best regards, Melancholie (talk) 15:05, 4 November 2008 (UTC)

Aritcle "EcoCute" and "Ecocute"

Your dedicating site Wikipedia article traffic statistics work well and responds with statistics for both article EcoCute and Ecocute. Then, Click Hyper text word Ecocute of statement "Ecocute has been viewed 423 times in 200810" was clicked, Wikipedia responded that no article for "Ecocute". (EcoCute was created on July 10, 2008.) So, I created new article "Ecocute" to redirect "EcoCute" on October 6, 2008. Please review statistics are responded correctly, but why click Ecocute as above did not redirect to EcoCute" before October 6. Thank you. --Namazu-tron (talk) 10:30, 13 October 2008 (UTC) (Minor changed. --Namazu-tron (talk) 15:53, 13 October 2008 (UTC))

Redirects are unfortunately counted separately. You'll need to add the statistics for EcoCute and Ecocute together to get the total number of hits. • 21:56, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

Traffic statistics

Sir, can you add Malayalam Wikipedia to your article traffic statistics?--Abhishek Jacob

See stats.grok.se/ml/200810/... --- Best regards, Melancholie (talk) 01:08, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

All wikipedias (as well as the other projects) are collected, but there are some interface glitches for the ones not in the drop down menu. If you enter the URL yourself however, you'll see the data. • 21:56, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

Article hits glitch

I got the following results from article hits:

Barack_Obama has been viewed 1793218 times in 200809. This article ranked 22 in traffic on en.wikipedia.org. Joe_Biden has been viewed 838647 times in 200809. This article ranked 13 in traffic on en.wikipedia.org.

Which seems counter-intuitive since one has more views than the other. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.93.183.78 (talk) 01:24, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

Let me answer this on behalf of Henrik: The rank position refers to the top 1000 list of August. Maybe change to "once ranked"? --- Best regards, Melancholie (talk) 01:38, 15 October 2008 (UTC

Yes, I should clarify it represents the previous month. • 21:56, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

Stats for all links listed on a page

Tjabatjena! I have used your excellent Wikipedia article traffic statistics, but I would very much like to see month statistics for a list of articles in the same way as "Related changes". Do you have any tips of how that can be done? Hälsningar, --Kr-val (talk) 07:49, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

That kind of feature is already available there. Just request your page(s). Note that we are juggling with huge amounts of data, but maybe it's possible to use Henrik's JSON interface to produce "Related Page Hits" dynamically? --- Best regards, Melancholie (talk) 01:33, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

It would probably be possible, but since you can only request stats for one page at a time, it would be quite slow for anything with more than a handful of "related pages". 02:45, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

I'll see if I can update the json interface to support more queries, but really: the main limitation is database speed, not the json query. As Melancholie says, the statistics data is pretty big. The database behind stats.grok.se currently has 3.5 billion rows, growing by tens of millions per day. Pretty soon I'll need to buy new harddrives :) • 21:37, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

Curiousity Question

Hi there,

I've been looking into the page visits tool and it's very interesting to me, perhaps even help me in my thesis. Great tool! I've two technical questions, if you have the time:

1. How credible are the visits records, I see some zeros patches here and there ( I read the about).

2. I think I saw visits in a page, somewhere where the visits preceded the first edit. Is that a glitch?

3. An additional question - on what time zone the time of the pvisit is recorded? for example, the Hebrew Wiki page visits are on the time of the English servers? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.182.164.69 (talk) 18:50, 17 October 2008 (UTC)

Thanks!

Y —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.108.106.173 (talk) 22:00, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

1. The visits are visits, but they also include bot visits, there is a list of anomalies somewhere.

2. Searches for non-existent pages are dutifully recorded even though the page does not exist. If the page is later created the hits will tend to go up but the stats will include the data from before the page was created.

3. I believe that all times are recorded as UTC on all servers. 4.233.143.244 (talk) 05:52, 18 October 2008 (UTC)

Double Thanks! keep up the good work! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.108.106.173 (talk) 16:25, 18 October 2008 (UTC)

XSS on stats.grok.se

Hi there, I've found a possible XSS issue on stats.grok.se

i.e. : http://stats.grok.se/en/200809/<h1>Hi there</h1>

other than that I really like your idea/site. Cheers --Aff123a (talk) 21:28, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

Oops. Obviously that should be escaped. I don't see how it could be used for nefarious purposes, given the simplicity of the site, but it should of course be fixed. • 21:56, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

Slightly misleading ranking information

http://stats.grok.se/de/200810/J%C3%B6rg_Haider reads today:

Jörg Haider has been viewed 483829 times in 200810. This article ranked 3651 in traffic on de.wikipedia.org.

With half a million views this article is probably somewhere in the top ten in October. I guess the rank 3651 refers to August. This could be explicitly stated to avoid confusion. --Feldkurat Katz (talk) 19:38, 17 October 2008 (UTC)

Yes. I'll fix the page to be more clear (and update the top rank to september). • 21:32, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

When doing an update to September, be aware that there was a major mishap on Sep 30th for enwiki, consider excluding that day for enwiki as the list would get inaccurate. --- Best regards, Melancholie (talk) 07:19, 28 October 2008 (UTC)

Heh. 2.4 million views for that page seems a bit improbable *grin* Thanks for letting me know! • 08:10, 28 October 2008 (UTC)

Article counter - again

Just saw your fine article counter - nice work! Just wonder if some improvements would be possible as options in the counter:

• Exclude bot hits.
• Count hits by unique user (to see how meny users visited the article).
• Exclude user (myself).

Hope this would be possible (both technically and to spend the time doing it) so a fine tool would become even better. Prillen (talk) 10:43, 21 October 2008 (UTC)

Hello! Unfortunately none of those options are technically feasible right now, they can't be done from the data dump Domas collects. Given the number of hits wikipedia gets, it would also be hard to do any kind of filtering on the server cluster without affecting performance as well. I agree that it would be useful though. • 21:32, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

Page view collecting server failure

Hello Henrik,
after contacting Domas, he found out that the disk space of the pagecounts collection server seems to had been filled up. So we lost data between ~13:00 UTC and ~23:00 UTC on October 21 (see report), rest should resync. --- Best regards, Melancholie (talk) 23:37, 21 October 2008 (UTC)

Unfortunately, it turned out to be even worse [also Oct 22]: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15177#c7 --Melancholie (talk) 23:14, 22 October 2008 (UTC)

Oh well. There are already a few gaps earlier in the data. Unfortunately there's litte we can do about it (and in the long run, the loss of a few days of statistics isn't really going to do much damage). Thanks for letting me know. • 21:29, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

Page View Zero?

Could you please let me know how to include the article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropology_of_Freedom in the page view counting? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 138.251.242.178 (talk) 01:21, 22 October 2008 (UTC)

It will be automatically included. All pages are. • 21:29, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

hi

can u tell me how to get page view statistics for subpages? --Just my 2 cents -- Hemanshu (talk) 17:18, 22 October 2008 (UTC)

You have to enter it like this user:Daniel Christensen/The War On Wikipedia. You have to include the username and don't forget the slash. Daniel Christensen (talk) 18:17, 22 October 2008 (UTC)

Exactly :-) Thanks Daniel, I get a warm fussy feeling every time someone answers a question for me, better than I could do myself. *grin* • 21:56, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

Article traffic stats

It is not updated yet to include yesterday (10/21/08) for some reason, and It is not accurate, i found out, because it doesn't take redirects into account., Ex: Dimensia redirects to RCA Dimensia, but if i typed both into the counter, they would be different. To get an accurate reading, you'd have to add together all the things that redirect to the article. Daniel Christensen (talk) 18:17, 22 October 2008 (UTC)

For the first point see #Page_view_collecting_server_failure. --Melancholie (talk) 21:36, 22 October 2008 (UTC)

Stats counter

The counter is not updating. By now (10/22/08) 3:08 pm it should have yesterdays (10/21/08) stats. 136.224.168.5 (talk) 19:09, 22 October 2008 (UTC)

Please read above, #Page_view_collecting_server_failure and even #Article_traffic_stats. ;-) --Melancholie (talk) 21:36, 22 October 2008 (UTC)

Thanks Melancholie :-) • 21:56, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

PAge counters for other months?

Hi, is it possible to get page counts for other months than october and possibly for a wiki of another language?

Thanks! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.108.106.173 (talk) 20:07, 22 October 2008 (UTC)

Try the drop down menus at http://stats.grok.se/ (=> http://stats.grok.se/zh/200802/Main_Page) --Melancholie (talk) 21:36, 22 October 2008 (UTC)

Sorry, I meant the raw data files for these months and non english wiki... do they exist anywhere? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.108.106.173 (talk) 07:24, 23 October 2008 (UTC)

Domas deletes the raw data files after a while, and I don't really keep the non-aggregated data anywhere but in the database. I can give you database dumps, but they'll be pretty large. • 21:56, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

Can you give me links to them? (if they're online). I need specific records for specific days. If you can't I can mail you for specific files (it's only a few). This will be very helpful for my thesis, if it's not too much trouble. Thanks! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.108.106.173 (talk) 21:12, 28 October 2008 (UTC)

The files are tens of gb large, aggregates for an entire month. If its only specific records for specific days, you can use the API: prepend json to the url (like so [1]), and you'll get the output in an easily parsable format. It depends a bit on what you want to do, but for anything less than a million requests in total or so, it might be the easiest way. • 10:26, 29 October 2008 (UTC)

Great - is there a way to access directly hours counts within a day? (whats the format for a json request? if there's one)

No, only the aggregate stats for each day are kept by me. The format to make the json request is as above http://stats.grok.se/json/en/200808/Main_Page. Just prepend json to the URL. • 20:02, 30 October 2008 (UTC)

Thanks again - it's a great thing you're doing! (and if there's a way to get hour by hour resolution of the counts, I'll be happy to hear about it).

Copy of an artical

I was searching for information on my son who I have not had contact with in a very long time. I found an artical had been taken down and was interested in getting a copy of it.

The search was "Nicholas Reyland"

Thank you very much.

Mark Reyland Mark@Creative3d.biz —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.60.73.194 (talk) 21:51, 22 October 2008 (UTC)

I'll send you a copy. • 21:56, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

Can someone please explain me why...

I get page view zero for the article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropology_of_Freedom ? Is there any way to include it in the page view counting? Or is it another problem??? Thanks for your help!

Do you mean http://stats.grok.se/en/200810/Anthropology_of_Freedom (2008-10?) See also #Page_view_collecting_server_failure. --- Best regards, Melancholie (talk) 16:03, 23 October 2008 (UTC)

As Melancholie says, the data for a few days were lost. However, it will be included for the future (as all pages are), you don't need to do anything special to get the statistics counted. • 21:56, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

Robot Blocking Embarassment

Thank you very much for your kind encouragement to contacat you, and all the good work it looks like you are doing!

I have recently contributed five new articles, which is about all I want to do now, and then maintain and update them from time to time. Of course some polish may be done during the next few days.

On Swedish Wikipedia:

1. Roger Jönsson

2. Steve Vigil

On English Wikipedia:

3. Birgit Ridderstedt

4. Jacob Truedson Demitz

5. Wild Side Story (still being built up)

Article 2 has been especially well received by a Swedish admin. who saved it from being quickly rejected.

Sadly, it seems that since yesterday a robot has been put in blocking the articles 4 and 5 and everything in them entirely from being crawled by Google. All this has disappeared from there over night, after it was seen by quite a few visitors yesterday.

This is especially embarrassing to me since Mr. Demitz has supplied us with our main reference sources and been very generous with his time and valuable information, all of which I have independently verified in his files and with others, in writing this and other articles about these subjects.

What if anything can be done about this? EmilEik (talk) 16:02, 24 October 2008 (UTC)

Hm, I'll take a look. • 21:56, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

External tools

How about external tools for Wiktionary? Could you make page view statistics and revision history statistics for Wiktionary? -- IRP ☎ 17:26, 25 October 2008 (UTC)

Wiktionary data is in the stats.grok.se database,

article traffic statistics

Hi, I have seen your tool [2]. I am curious if there is any possibility to find out who visited my User-Page. Is there any possibility? I have tried to put on some java script from public available webcounters but they got "escaped" out. Even links to some 1 pixel sized gif images got escaped out. Can you think of any possibility? --HAH (talk) 19:26, 26 October 2008 (UTC)

No, it's not possible for users to track visits to their userpage. • 21:56, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

Thank you for page stats

Very useful & informative EJohn59 (talk) 09:39, 27 October 2008 (UTC)EJohn59

Thanks! • 21:56, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

Again another thanks, extremely useful tool which has been passed around a lot at my work showing the importance of Wikipedia as a tool used by the general public to quickly access information. See here. Good work well done and hope it doesn't just stay a Beta service. All the best 15:52, 30 October 2008 (UTC)

Wow, that is pretty impressive. At least for me, our WP article outranks even the official cern.ch on google, and is probably the first and only stop for LHC info for an awful lot of people. Glad to see my humble service making the rounds at Cern as well. :) • 15:58, 30 October 2008 (UTC)

Question about my pic

Hello Henrik First time I talk with you I guess. well, my question is if u can help me to move a picture I uploaded to my User page (but smaller) I try to delete it but was impossible Now I have not idea how can I transfer it to my page

If the pic is mine (a pic of me) why I can not find the commands to delete it?

Here is the link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Pedro_2.jpeg

I will appreciate your help

ur Wiki friend

IoWiki2007

What you do is you put the text [[Image:Pedro_2.jpeg|250px]] on your user page, and it will show up like this:

For more info see, Help:Images. And you can of course change the size 250px to something else. :) • 21:21, 29 October 2008 (UTC)

My friend Henrik: Thanks so much for your awesome help. I did it. If you want you can delete the picture now, I solved the problem. If you like boxing I have some articles there that you may like. Have a nice day ~~Io_Wiki2007~~ (talk) 21:53, 29 October 2008 (UTC)

Well, that image needs to stay :) If Image:Pedro_2.jpeg is deleted, the link showing it on your userpage will stop working, and that's not quite what we'd want *grin*. I've restored the copyright info on that page as well. Cheers, • 21:57, 29 October 2008 (UTC)

Thanks you! Have a wonderful Halloween! =) ~~Io_Wiki2007~~ (talk) 21:59, 29 October 2008 (UTC)

Sorry

I appreciate your comments. I, alas, overreacted. I had already told him several times that I had no desire to pursue the matter and he kept at me. So I told a friend. It kinda felt like being stalked. I appreciate that the guy must be pretty young and from a culture that values machismo and always being right, so it was wrong for me to taunt him that way. I already told him several times to go ahead and keep the page as his. I have been on here since 2002 and this is the first time I have encountered someone like him, and the attitude of possessing an article was alien to my experience here, so I vented / acted out. Sorry. de7 21:22, 29 October 2008 (UTC)

Occasionally, the best thing two editors can do is to just stay away from each other. Sometimes their respective personalities aren't just compatible, though no fault of either. But I'm not sure this is the case here though. If you'd be willing to let bygones be bygones, I'm sure the conflict can still be defused successfully. In my experience, Peter Isotalo can come across as pretty abrasive and has little tolerance for long argumentation, but he will generally yield if you can show high quality sources that prove him wrong. • 21:46, 29 October 2008 (UTC)

PS. Please try to refrain from commenting on other editors age or culture. It's just not very helpful :)

I made a very serious effort of discussing the issue from the start and I have gotten almost nothing but scorn and insults in return. I have no problem in taking criticism for my conclusions, but I don't see that any serious attempt has been made. I've discussed and quoted my own sources at some length, and I was expecting that Saudade would do the same. Instead I get accused of being a young hothead by someone who has only barely discussed the disputed matter. That's just plain mean.

Peter ^Isotalo 15:51, 31 October 2008 (UTC)

RfA thanks

Hi Henrik, and thanks for supporting my successful request for adminship. It was nice to see all the kind comments I got from my supporters and I hope that I will be more useful to the community now that I have the tools again.--Berig (talk) 15:51, 1 November 2008 (UTC)

stats.grok.se and redirects

Hi. Great work on your stats website that I've just discovered. But I noticed that redirects are counted independently from the main article page count, so the stats don't actually show the total views of a page, just the views using that name.

So I wonder if "Page_X has been viewed NNNN times in 200810" given on the page would be better stated as "Page_X has been viewed NNNN times in 200810 using that name". It would be great if there was a facility that would sum all the redirects and main name pages, but perhaps for a post-beta version.

e.g. [3] and [4] where the redirect has far more views than the main name. Rwendland (talk) 23:02, 1 November 2008 (UTC)

Small Error in traffic Stats noticed

Hi Henrik,

I love the stats feature and I noticed a small descrepancy that might be useful. Searching directly for the Wikipedia article traffic statistics for Leonardo da Vinci in Oct.2008 shows the article was viewed 226,712 times. Checking with the top 1000 for Oct. 2008 lists the da Vinci article (#523 on list) as having been viewed 203,308 times. A fairly small differential but it might be useful to note... ExplorerMMVIII (talk) 03:04, 3 November 2008 (UTC)

Oops. I meant the discrepancy was noted for Aug. 2008. I thought the discrepancy in this one example might also be occuring for other articles. ExplorerMMVIII (talk) 03:17, 3 November 2008 (UTC)

Inquiry about special article traffic stats

I'm wondering if it might be possible to create one-off hour-by-hour stats of the number of hits our two main page articles receive in the 36 hours after they first went onto the main page? That should take us all the way through the US election day to the final result. I suspect during the day they will have a phenomenal number of hits, but at the same time if it is any trouble to draft the script (write the program? extract the data?) I would not want to put you to any extra work. Best, Risker (talk) 07:42, 4 November 2008 (UTC)

Sure, I can do that! • 07:56, 4 November 2008 (UTC)

Fantastic! I've mentioned it to SandyGeorgia, because this experiment will be the subject of the next FA-related Signpost article. Any chance you could include the hits for all the redirect pages? Some of them had enormous hits too. Obama's redirects and McCain's redirects. I think the Obama article must have been pretty close to a million hits, with the redirects included. In the hour following his acceptance speech, there were a quarter of a million hits. Mindboggling. Thanks for your help. Risker (talk) 07:13, 5 November 2008 (UTC)

I've made a small graph for Barack Obama now, at Image:BarackObamaHits.png. I'll follow up with McCain later. • 15:25, 5 November 2008 (UTC)

Note that this already exists, see Wikipedia/Template:Popular pages! Template:Popular_articles?action=history (like initial wikinews:Template:Popular_articles). See also Special:Statistics... --- Best regards, Melancholie (talk) 15:01, 4 November 2008 (UTC)

Thanks Melancholie, that gives us ongoing data for the day. It would be a nice touch to add a graph of the results to the talk pages of the articles (or a subpage for each) once the day is over, just as a record of how one event can affect the encyclopedia. As I write, the Barack Obama page is already over 500 hits/minute. Risker (talk) 15:42, 4 November 2008 (UTC)

Template history starts with September 5 :-) Another major event logged has been 2008 South Ossetia war, by the way. --- Best regards, Melancholie (talk) 15:47, 4 November 2008 (UTC)

It peaked at about 80 views a second for an hour, which is pretty impressive :) • 15:40, 5 November 2008 (UTC)

Here are the two articles compared: • 15:38, 5 November 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for pitching in, Henrik. In terms of designing images for WP:FCDW/ElectionTFA, keep in mind that the Signpost banner down the side really limits us as to image placement. When you have something final, pls post it to the talk page there. (What is the x-axis in the graph above?) Thanks again ! Sandy (Talk) 17:23, 5 November 2008 (UTC)

page view stats

hello henrik,

just a note to say how much i appreciate the page view stats that are currently available on wikipedia. i noticed that it is a beta service that may not be around forever, but i for one, would like to see it around forever.

thank you. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.231.25.128 (talk) 15:51, 4 November 2008 (UTC)

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Grrr! • 21:03, 10 November 2008 (UTC)

Simple question about stats tool

Hi Henrik. I've seen it said somewhere that your stats exclude edits: is that right? For example, if I made 10 edits to article XXX last month, will my visits be excluded in some way? --NigelG (or Ndsg) | Talk 12:39, 6 November 2008 (UTC)

Nope, they'll be counted. Or rather, once you click save and are returned to the article, that counts as a view too. • 21:05, 10 November 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for clearing that up. --NigelG (or Ndsg) | Talk 10:14, 11 November 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia traffic

Dear Henrik,

I was having a look at the page which gives how many times a certain Wiki page has been visited in a month, and I was wondering whether you could exclude the number of times a certain user has visited that page. For instance, although I edit some articles very frequently (and so I would view that article the most in a given month), I would like to know how many times other people (except for me) have viewed that page. Is there a way?

Thanks for your help.

Topology Expert (talk) 12:58, 6 November 2008 (UTC)

No, unfortunately that would be prohibitively expensive when it comes to performance. • 21:04, 10 November 2008 (UTC)

Hello Henrik

Just to wish you a wonderful weekend ~~Io_Wiki2007~~ (talk) 20:33, 7 November 2008 (UTC)

Why, thank you! • 21:01, 10 November 2008 (UTC)

Follow-up to old ANI thread

My final (rather long) post here (now archived) didn't get any response there, so as I said there I am following up on people's talk pages to try and clarify what will happen in future cases, and then I'm moving on. Are you happy to agree that speedy deletes are not needed for suspected hoax articles, and that they should be allowed to run the full length of time at an AfD debate? Carcharoth (talk) 11:30, 8 November 2008 (UTC)

I'm willing to acknowledge that my rogue deletion may not have been the best course of action possible. :) I do however still think that we should be firmer on (suspected) hoaxes, but there are other ways of accomplishing that. • 21:01, 10 November 2008 (UTC)

Using stats.grok.se to study a page

Hello Henrik,

I have been using stats.grok.se to collect some data and start analysing a page from fr.wikipedia.org -- it was easy to extract data and paste it into spreadsheets to build graphs of views over 40 weeks, and compute a few other indicators. Some graphs are available here, with notes and discussion in French: http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discuter:Michel_Maffesoli#.C3.89tude_de_la_page -- have a look!

Cheers,

---- phnk (talk) 19:02, 9 November 2008 (UTC)

Interesting! Do you know about the json api, which makes it easier to make automated queries? • 21:04, 10 November 2008 (UTC)

Stats axes

Hi, great job on grok.se - may I suggest that the histograms are rendered against logarithmic axes (or given the option to do so) to make studying huge spikes more useful? Cheers, Bigbluefish (talk) 20:54, 10 November 2008 (UTC)

Hello Henrik

I'm just saying hello. -- 17:40, 11 November 2008 (UTC)

Stats

I just came across this tool, and I'm quite baffled by the results. I tried finding the stats for a list I created and was surprised to see that there were days when there was zero hits, and days with huge spikes. I have no explanation for either, and was wondering how both phenomena can be explained. The spike seems to indicate a prominent temporary link (like a main page article), but I can't find any temporary link from the day of the spike. I cannot think of any explanation of the zeros. Was Wikipedia offline for a few days? -- ☑ Sam 20:27, 11 November 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia wasn't offline, but the stats collection was down for those two days. That is why the 21-22 of October show zero hits - so unfortunately there are some gaps in the data, this has happened earlier too. I would guess that the spike is due to some external site linking to the article: Perhaps a prominent forum post or a blog linked to the article on that day? • 06:38, 12 November 2008 (UTC)

ref the article on Ludwig Beck/ your contribution (2005) refers

hi henrik, thanks for leaving a communication line open. the above article needs editing, but not without extensive reference to and communication with the original author (who is clearly an expert, but not a native english speaker). if you have time, please take a look at the most recent section on the discussion page of the article, which i posted a few days ago. is there a means of indentifying, and communicating with an original contributor? if yes, would you please let me know? many thanksMiletus (talk) 15:07, 12 November 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia article traffic statistics

Perhaps asked before, but what I want to suggest is to add the use of Commons files --stunteltje@hccnet.nl (talk) 13:10, 17 November 2008 (UTC)

For Commons pages see http://stats.grok.se/commons.m/200811/Image:Saint_Peter%27s_Square_from_the_dome.jpg - for file usage see MediaZilla:14890. --- Best regards, Melancholie (talk) 13:45, 17 November 2008 (UTC)