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Wikipedia Research Paper

My name is Dale Carty II and I am a cadet at the United States Coast Guard Academy. I am writing a research paper on the mechanics of Wikipedia. I saw your "Wikipedia article traffic statistics" engine which rose a few questions. How are you able to view the amount of visitors to a specific page? Is it possible to find or locate who made corrections to a Wikipedia page? Are there any consequences that occur when people place incorrect information online? Thank you in advance for your timely response.

Very Respectfully, 4/c Carty —Preceding unsigned comment added by DLCarty (talk • contribs) 17:50, 28 April 2011 (UTC)

The source data that Henrik uses is actually posted by domas, a tech guy for Wikimedia. (You might also be interested in the FAQ for Henrik's tool). Too bad our page view article isn't very explanatory, but it does cover the very basics. To respond to your second question, you can view the "history" tab on any page to see who has made what edits. See also Help:History. As far as people posting incorrect information, on Wikipedia we can block users who continue to post incorrect data after being warned not to. Killiondude (talk) 05:34, 29 April 2011 (UTC)

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Thanks

Hey, thanks for the page view statistics. Very helpful in knowing if people are reading selected wiki pages. Cheers. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ultimatedit (talk • contribs) 01:56, 9 May 2011 (UTC)

Article statistics (after April 7)

Please read the responses (and the suggested FAQ), to avoid posting redundant questions/comments.

Thanks!  Kiefer.Wolfowitz  (Discussion) 09:37, 11 April 2011 (UTC)

User Based Statistics

Henrik, I was thinking page stats by user would be interesting. For example, aggregated page stats for articles created by a user or change in page stats based on the contributions of a user. Please consider. Thank you! Jasonbook99 (talk) 14:22, 7 May 2011 (UTC)

Stats failure?

Hi Henrik. Do I get it right that there's been a failure of the Stats tool on April 8? Even the Main page shows zero hits for that day. Is there a way to retrieve the hits count for April 8 for a particular article like Iman al-Obeidi, for instance? Regards, Cinosaur (talk) 12:37, 9 April 2011 (UTC)

Main Page and all article traffic statistics

Dear Henrik, Some problem with the Article traffic statistics of Anna Hazare of April 8, 2011. Kindly have a look. Thanks.-- . Shlok talk . 13:53, 9 April 2011 (UTC)

All stats grok statistics, I think. No stats for the Main Page on April 8, or any other page I see. Maile66 (talk) 14:25, 9 April 2011 (UTC)

Occassional stat failures are common, but not two in a row

Stats are still showing zero, this being the second day in a row. I usually don't even look at stats anymore but I just made a good article and I was watching it's traffic trends for the first week. Daniel Christensen (talk) 03:25, 10 April 2011 (UTC)

Third day in a row, never seen that, can I assume that the stat thing, which has always said is a beta service and may dissappear at anytime, has done just that? Interesting to see how many people count on it, though. Daniel Christensen (talk) 04:13, 11 April 2011 (UTC)

It was down for several days last month (the posts about it are above on this page). It happens occasionally and then the problem gets fixed. Henrik just doesn't reply here every time someone reports a problem, but he reads the page so I'm sure he's aware of the problems. Just give it a few days, I'm sure it will be back up again. --- Crakkerjakk (talk) 05:07, 11 April 2011 (UTC)
Since its inception what's been the longest consecutive downtime? Because it's now on day four. When the stats fail, does it stop counting in the middle of a day so the days surrounding the failure are less than the real views? Or is it just all or none? Daniel Christensen (talk) 01:10, 12 April 2011 (UTC)
Appears that the site where the raw data used to be stored -->http://dammit.lt/wikistats/archive/2011/04/ has been redirected to http://dom.as/. If this was where the toolserver account was pulling the data from, then its not anymore. Calmer Waters 01:42, 12 April 2011 (UTC)
The raw data is there through. First, you can go to http://dammit.lt/wikistats/ where the raw data is stored. There are 24 files for each day in 1 hour intervals. You can then manually extract the stats for an article, download the files, uncompress them, then using a text editor, find the article in each file. There are two numbers after each article name, the first is the number of page views for that article in that hour. Warning through. The download can take a considerable amount of time. Kindly Calmer Waters 01:59, 12 April 2011 (UTC)

stats

i'm getting stas failure since the 7th of april also--Sweetcorn (msg) 12:41, 10 April 2011 (UTC)

same problem on all the french pages that I checked. Chassain (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 19:17, 10 April 2011 (UTC).

A request

Hallo Henrick. Please, may you tell me if the Wikipedia article traffic statistics is working? Thank you very much. --Antonella (talk) 22:37, 10 April 2011 (UTC)

What hapened to the statistics?

It is now all 0 0 0 everyday from 900 per day! Can you find the problem and fix it? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Georgy90 (talk • contribs) 15:34, 11 April 2011 (UTC)

Hi Henrik, stats tool appears to have been down for last 5 days...
Sunnyborders (talk) 08:24, 13 April 2011 (UTC)

page statistics

Hi, I liked the page statistics that you were evidently responsible for providing. Any particular reason that you decided to stop providing them? Thanks for you help, 173.70.113.42 (talk) 23:11, 12 April 2011 (UTC) Ooops. Forgot I wasn't logged in...again. Smm201`0 (talk) 23:13, 12 April 2011 (UTC)

Tierra del Fuego National Park

The Wikipedia article traffic statistics does not appear to be working as the number of hits on the date of the main page DYK appearance of the above article does not show-up. Can you kindly tell me how to get this information? Thanks.--Nvvchar. 09:19, 13 April 2011 (UTC)

Problem with article statistics page

There seems to be a problem with the article statistics page (http://stats.grok.se/). For the last 4-5 days, every article's page view number has been "0", even for heavily visited articles like Barack Obama. I find it hard to believe that zero people visited the Barack Obama article in the last 5 days. (I read the pageview FAQ, but didn't find any information about why there would be 0 hits). Agogperson (talk) 12:12, 13 April 2011 (UTC)

Hello I am curious why the counts for Leopold Seyffert page are zero for several days. Just curious thanks Robert Seyffert (talk) 13:29, 13 April 2011 (UTC)

Page View Statistics

The page view statistics on the article Automatic Dependent Surveillance - Broadcast dropped to "0" on April 8 to current and appears to lost link with ability to track data. I am tracking this and have for the past several years and now the data stream appears to be broken.... How does that get restored?

Thanks..

AuburnADS-B (talk) 14:11, 13 April 2011 (UTC)

Same problem in de.wikipedia-articles... Please give me info, thanks, --Reimmichl-212 (talk) 14:35, 13 April 2011 (UTC)

Why it doesn't work ?

Excuse me, but why ti doesn't work ? Thanks a lot for the answer. Best regards.

IP, 13 April 2011 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.14.91.177 (talk) 16:18, 13 April 2011 (UTC)

Please why does not work my statistic from April 10, 2011 --Dgolitsis (talk) 20:11, 13 April 2011 (UTC)]]

Hello, I appreciate very much your statistic tool, but on french Wikipedia.fr also, the "Wikipedia article traffic statistics" indicate "0" fot all pages, since 1 week now. -Abaca 21:42, 13 April 2011 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by ABACA (talk • contribs)

France

Hello ! I appreciate too. But why on french Wikipedia.fr the "Wikipedia article traffic statistics" indicate "0" fot all pages ? ( 8 days without traffic statistics [1]).77.202.60.69. Any way, think you 4 ur work ! (talk) 22:02, 14 April 2011 (UTC)

Here is the beginning of the answer, which I got in my pdd :

Traffic stats

All the monthly page views since 2011 aren't appearing. 2010 2011. Until Henrik fixes this I suspect the page ranks will continue to stay the same. Must be some kind of Y2K error. Marcus Qwertyus 01:49, 10 April 2011 (UTC)

So... let us just be a bit more patient ;-)

--Bibliorock (talk) 00:56, 15 April 2011 (UTC)

Out of order !

The stats are really out of order...But why ? Please, give us some explanations. Thanks.

Omygod,no stats

My favorite Wiki feature are your stats....Can you fix the problem? Smallchief (talk) 10:45, 15 April 2011 (UTC)


IP, 15 April 2011 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.14.91.177 (talk) 09:35, 15 April 2011 (UTC)

Wikipedia article traffic statistics

Good afternoon. Page poseshayut many people, but in the statistics for several days, wrote that the page no one looks. [2] Thanks in advance. Sincerely, 77.52.52.192 (talk) 13:20, 15 April 2011 (UTC)

I tried it again today and it worked this time. Contains Mild Peril (talk) 02:46, 17 April 2011 (UTC)

I think the page view statistics include attempts to view red links. I created a new article (Xenon dioxide) and made 3 edits, and then I looked at the page view statistics and was surprised to find that "this page" (which I created today) was viewed 12 times in the last 30 days, some views 3 weeks ago. The only explanation I can find is that these views were attempts to view the (previously red) link to Xenon dioxide from the dab page at Xenon oxide. Dirac66 (talk) 00:12, 10 May 2011 (UTC)

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Förfrågan

Halloj! Mitt namn är Martin Wilson. Jag håller för närvarande på att författa en licentiatuppsats i ämnet historia. Licentiatuppsats är relativt ovanliga, de kan liknas vid en halv doktorsavhandling. Ämnet för min uppsats är Wikipedias texter och gymnasieelevers möte med dessa texter. Jag är inte primärt intresserad av källkritik, utan istället fokuseras min studie på vad IKT-revolutionen kan tänkas innebära; hur människors sätt att tänka förändras.

Min studie är i huvudsak kvalitativ, men jag funderar på att ta med även kvantitativa slutsatser. I det sammanhanget är jag intresserad av den statistik som du tagit fram. Är det möjligt för mig att ställa några frågor om materialet? Jag syftar bland annat på den här listan: http://stats.grok.se/en/201105/

Jag är (som synes) inte aktiv på Wikipedia. Om möjligt ser jag helst att vi kommunicerar via e-post, jag har: Martin.Wilson@hist.lu.se

Hälsningar Martin Wilson —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mw74 (talk • contribs) 18:56, 10 May 2011 (UTC)

traffic stats tool is great!

the traffic stats tool is really great, it is a good way to see the changing importance of this or that over time. Better than Google Trends, I think, because it has a much larger dynamic range -- e.g., can detect very low levels of interest. It is also less sensitive to multiple meanings of one term (e.g., two different people with the same name) than Google Trends. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 125.34.52.28 (talk) 01:07, 11 May 2011 (UTC)

Recalculating statistic for top articles - please confirm our methods are correct

Hello Henrik, or Killion dude (since the previous hasn't answered for quite sometime and the later help ;-) . I notice that your top statistic for all wikipedias, or in this case, the English article top statistic - has bias. It doesn't calculate top article that year, it only calculate top article on December 2010. (I checked on the sum and the announcement on top left: "Most viewed articles in 201012" <-- most viewed article on December 2010). So I pay a dude to recalculate the whole year for top 101 manually adding the page view number, and this is what he came up with: (look at the total of the number of January-December 2010): Top 100 article on 2010 Serenity id (talk) 13:56, 13 May 2011 (UTC)

Wikipedia article traffic statistics - Need this tool for Khmer projects (kmwp)

Dear Henrik, Thanks for this useful Wikipedia article traffic statistics tool! But unfortunately, the Khmer language is not yet included, meaning I can track any article traffic stats for Khmer Wikipedia (km.wikipedia.org). Can you please add that feature on our Khmer wiki projects? Thank you in advance! --វ័ណថារិទ្ធ (talk) 15:46, 14 May 2011 (UTC)

wikipedia traffic stats

Hi Henrik, I have a question about the Wikipedia traffic stats. Do the downloads include only the traffic for that day? Is there a way to download traffic stats over a longer time frame, or would I have to download every file one-by-one?

Thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Meremortal123 (talk • contribs) 16:02, 16 May 2011 (UTC)

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Page view statistics tool has stopped working

Hi, The Page view statistics tool has stopped working. The figures yielded in the past two days are both zero. Can it be fixed? Gracefish (talk) 04:33, 19 May 2011 (UTC)

Page view statistics tool has stopped working

Hi, The Page view statistics tool has stopped working. The figures yielded in the past two days are both zero. Can it be fixed? Dgolitsis--Dgolitsis (talk) 05:33, 19 May 2011 (UTC)


Out of order

Hello ! That's true. It seems completely out of order. But why ? Please, give us some explanations. Thanks a lot.

IP, 19 May 2011 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.14.91.177 (talk) 10:42, 19 May 2011 (UTC)

Hi Henrik - I find your web page stats very helpful. Do you have plans to develop it further? It would be a shame if were to disapear.

Kind Regards

Dbrawlins (talk) 11:14, 19 May 2011 (UTC)

Galleria d'arte moderna Raccolta Lercaro on Facebook

Hello, this is Claudio Calari - Raccolta Lercaro museum. I saw that you create a new "Galleria d'arte moderna Raccolta Lercaro" profile on Facebook . Can you remove that? Because we create a new profile.

Thank you Claudio Calari

for any answer you can contact me: resptecnico@raccoltalercaro.it —Preceding unsigned comment added by Resptecnico (talk • contribs) 10:23, 23 May 2011 (UTC)

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Further information?

Henrik, thank you for a truly wonderful tool. I was wondering if you have any plans to develop it further. My wish would be for some sort of log information that would identify where spikes come from. Some are quite obvious, such as when an article appears on the main page or becomes the subject of a Google Doodle. But other times, an article will suddenly spike to 10x or 20x its normal traffic. Surely, those extra hits are equally the result of some source. Is it possible to show the top 1 - 5 originating sites? Thank you. Marrante (talk) 08:03, 25 May 2011 (UTC)

Henrik merely republishes what domas, a dev for Wikimedia, outputs. See the FAQ for more info. He doesn't have any special access as far as I am aware. Killiondude (talk) 08:05, 25 May 2011 (UTC)
I did read the FAQ and almost didn't post this as a result, but decided to anyway, since I didn't know where else to ask the question and figured it would at least get seen here. I followed a link to the Tucows site, but didn't have time to check anything out, beyond looking at a couple of pages and a screen shot. I thought that by posting here, I'd perhaps get a reply and some information. Thanks for your reply. I will look at your FAQ. Marrante (talk) 06:27, 26 May 2011 (UTC)
Henrik only has access to numbers (figures/statistics) that domas publishes. So I think you should redirect your question to domas. Killiondude (talk) 06:29, 26 May 2011 (UTC)
Thank you. Marrante (talk) 06:30, 26 May 2011 (UTC)

Your Tool / EDAQS

Hello Henrik, we are currently working on Digital Automated Quotation Systems and your pageviews statistics tool may be of major importance for us. Is there any way to get in touch with you by email concerning this? Best regards (Fogivi (talk) 10:37, 30 May 2011 (UTC))

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Copyright of page view stats screenshots

Someone has uploaded File:Pageviewstats.jpg to illustrate Help:Pageview stats, and has fallen into the restriction on non-free images outside of article space. I wonder if you could help out here? If you created the user interface depicted in the screenshot, I think you could upload a new screenshot with a free license as "entirely your own work", with an explanation that you created both the software and the screenshot. -- John of Reading (talk) 06:29, 1 June 2011 (UTC)

Request userfication of "Quincy Mine Hoist Association"

The page Quincy Mine Hoist Association was speedy-deleted quite unexpectedly on me. I would like to have it userfied. Thank you. Chris857 (talk) 18:27, 2 June 2011 (UTC)

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The Signpost: 13 June 2011

Hi Henrick. In case you are not watching the page, I have left a request for the project here. Regards, --Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 23:26, 14 June 2011 (UTC)

Wikipedia article traffic statistics

Hi, I downloaded and extracted the text file from .gz, but what mean the fields? Like: 

als Ureinwohner 1 364


Jonas AGX 15:08, 17 June 2011 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jonas AGX (talk • contribs)

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how to upload & article

Hi, i dont know if you speak english or spanish, my language so i speak in english. The matter is that i uploaded an article called "rectificación de imagenes satelitales". I dont know very well why it doesnt apeear or what i have to do to make it appear. The problem is that i need it to get 1 point in my last exam of my carrear that is this monday 27th of June. Would it be posible to make something before that? Thank you very much for your time

Sepereto (Joseba Portas Abalde) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sepereto (talk • contribs) 14:54, 23 June 2011 (UTC)

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This is not my field of expertise. Physical & organic chemistry. How do you add standard sign - looks like a(n) bus symbol of London city. It's for entropy values, other uses. Did you know? The first data booklet Edexcel(R) published used superscript 0 (that united Chemistry)! Winditidi (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 17:51, 28 June 2011 (UTC).

Hi, the pageviews statistics tool is down again. The figure just produced for the previous day is zero. Could you get it back running? Thanks. Gracefish (talk) 03:30, 4 July 2011 (UTC)

Pageviews statistics tool

Does the tool check total views for an article each day, or views from separate people? Ryan Vesey (talk) 03:53, 4 July 2011 (UTC)

Total. Killiondude (talk) 00:55, 5 July 2011 (UTC)

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Userfy the page "Eric Pope"

Hey this is Darbaki, a user on Google. I need you to copy a page for me, or 'userfy' the page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Pope 

- This would be much appreciated. Thank you.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Darbaki (talk • contribs) 17:27, 5 July 2011 (UTC)

Hey, Just wanted to say that Wikipedia article traffic statistics is a valuable service as afar as I can see. I don't like to see that it can fold at any time. Please keep it going, it is a good feedback on how articles are doing. Thanks TonyClarke (talk) 19:22, 5 July 2011 (UTC)

Statistics JSONP-formatted

Hi Henrik,

I want to use your statistic tool via JavaScript, but as far as i know the JSON-Format can't used from a different domain. Can you please add an output with JSONP-Format? Kind regards --Progcoder (talk) 14:08, 6 July 2011 (UTC) (b:de:User:Prog)

Restoring a page

Hi Henrik I really need your help. I am very new to Wiki and not quite sure what I am doing. A page Carbon Trade Exchange was deleted for two reasons the name of the user account was too similar to the name of the company and also because it was written in a format where it was more of an advertisement.

I really would like this page to be restored because I feel this is an interesting subject to be talked about, particularly with what is happening in Australia and the carbon tax. I know that it needs to be more neutral and I think I can help with that, but until it is restored I cannot do anything about it.

I look forward to hearing from you soon.

Kind regards

Birchgrovelight — Preceding unsigned comment added by Birchgrovelight (talk • contribs) 01:00, 7 July 2011 (UTC)

Wikipedia article traffic statistics

I will only say: "It is great!" Bulwersator (talk) 06:58, 7 July 2011 (UTC)

Wiki Stats

Hi Henrik,

I was using the statistics on pageviews that you provided. Our numbers look very similar each month and I was curious if pageviews are from people only, or if they also include web crawlers, i.e. anything computer accessing the page for sweeping.

If you could email me at sdardashti@pli.edu it would be great!

Thanks! Shannon — Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.197.93.75 (talk) 20:36, 7 July 2011 (UTC)

Dear Henrik, could you help me Personalize the page Co-Employment in order for me to re-write it

Hi Henrik

I have written some pages about Umbrella Companies (Egenanställningsföretag) and I have done a mistake of copying too much text on a sub-definition.

I would like to re-do the work and I understand you could help me by putting the page as a "personal work-page" while I work on it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Co-employment

best regards Fredrik Arvas (fredrik@arvas.se)

PS Jag talar också svenska. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Fredrikarvas (talk • contribs) 14:51, 9 July 2011 (UTC)

Article Statistics for 1 day?

Hi! I found your article statistics tool on the toolserver, so I thought you might be right person to contact. I am trying to get an understanding of the most popular articles on Wikipedia (specifically, frwiki, although any will do). I have found tools that will tell me how many times a given article has been read when provided a date range, but this is not quite what I want. Rather, I am looking for something like "for each article in all the frwiki articles, how many times as each article accessed on August 18, 2010"

Do you know if there is a way to obtain this data? Thanks in advance for your help! --Nemilar (talk) 03:05, 10 July 2011 (UTC)

Ok, nevermind. You have a tool that does this. Ignore me! Thanks for your tools!!! --Nemilar (talk) 03:06, 10 July 2011 (UTC)

Stats question #34235897

Hello, I'm trying to check the number of visitors for the last month. It says that the page has been viewed 7929 times in the last 30 days. Is it the number of unique visitors or just the views overall?

Thank you! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mr chaichits (talk • contribs) 13:37, 11 July 2011 (UTC)

Views overall. See the FAQ for other questions and answers. Killiondude (talk) 18:40, 11 July 2011 (UTC)

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Pageviews statistics tool

Hallo Henrik.Does the tool check total views for an article from today Dgolitsis 05:46, 13 July 2011 (UTC)

Stats for July 12 is missing.

Thanks for fixing. --KurtR (talk) 11:10, 13 July 2011 (UTC)

Neil Squire page

Hello Henrik,

My name is Jason (Birdman604). I am having licensing issues. How do I create an online license for a picture? Btw, I think your site www.grok.se is fantastic! One suggestion, it would be really useful to be able to track by day, month, quarter and year.

I look forward to hearing from you.

Birdman604 (talk) 22:44, 13 July 2011 (UTC)

Hello, The pageviews statistics tool is down again. Could you get it back running? Thanks. Gracefish (talk) 23:35, 13 July 2011 (UTC)

The pageviews statistics tool is down

Hello, The pageviews statistics tool is down again. Could you get it back running? Thanks.Gracefish (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 23:41, 13 July 2011 (UTC).

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Kiko58 (talk) 03:44, 14 July 2011 (UTC)

your Pageviews Statistics Tool

Hello Henrik !

I would like to know why there are regularly some missing days in your Tool concerning the French wikipedia pages whereas it works for English wikipages.

Examples : On the 3 July 2011

http://stats.grok.se/fr/201107/France

http://stats.grok.se/fr/201107/Vince_Clarke

How to fix it ?? Is it possible to restore the lost data from the 3 July ?

In advance I thank you for your answer. Best Regards,

Airazur


PS : My native language is French ; so, please, forgive my mistakes. — Preceding unsigned comment added by AIRAZUR (talk • contribs) 09:46, 14 July 2011 (UTC)

Wikipedia article traffic statistics

Hallo Henrik, thank you very much for your very nice tool for article views! I am using it regularly and it provides really interesting insights into article readership. Greetings --Furfur (talk) 17:51, 31 May 2011 (UTC)

Thank you for your useful tool ! There are already many foreign languages available. I would like to know whether you will add some other languages like Afrikaans and Swahili ? Thanks for your great work ! User:Jeromemoreno (talk) --Jérôme MORENO HERRERO 09:57, 16 June 2011 (UTC)

Thank you very much, too! Please, take a look at Killiondude/stats concerning feature requests in German wikibooks. -- Juetho (talk) 13:52, 27 June 2011 (UTC)

Thank you also, since July 12 this tool does not exist in German wikipedia. Can you help? --Belladonna2 (talk) 21:00, 14 July 2011 (UTC)

Thank you for this great tool Henrik, Since 7/12 or 13, new data is not being shown. The existing data just slides over to the right. User:tommyt.tft 11:40 15 July 2011 (UTC)

Bot on stats

If an automated bot edits a page, does that show up as a view on the stats? Rcsprinter (talk) 11:44, 10 July 2011 (UTC)

  • I think no edits will count as pageviews, so a page could be edited 100x times using http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Blanket&action=edit, but even though accessed 100x times, I think it would show only 1 pageview, from displaying the page before the first edit. If you want to read a rare page without adding to a pageview count, then edit it by "&action=edit" (without the initial view, then once inside edit, do a "Show preview" without saving). -Wikid77 16:09, 14 July 2011 (UTC)

Overall statistics of views

In Wikipedia article traffic statistics File:Zaragoza shel.JPG from Commons has 30 views in 2011-07. In English Wiki it has the name File:... (149 views in 2011-07), in Russian Wiki - Файл:...(64 views in 2011-07), in Spanish Wiki - Archivo:...(182 views in 2011-07), etc. Please tell me

  1. how to see the views number of the same file in all Wikis by one click.
  2. how to see the views number for all the months--Владимир Шеляпин (talk) 10:52, 14 July 2011 (UTC)
  • As you might know, the stats are an informal display, based on data stored as numbers. Other people (such as User:Killiondude) have different tools which read those same pageview database numbers and can show counts rather than the histogram bargraphs. To display all months for a prior year, just leave the "/0x" month out of the URL, such as: http://stats.grok.se/en/2010/Blanket for article "Blanket" in 2010, but shows only 11 months because November 2010 was omitted, so get the 11th month, by showing: http://stats.grok.se/en/2010/11/Blanket. This stats.grok.se is an informal service, so that is why the data in incomplete for year 2010. Also, the data for year 2011 has not been totalled, yet, so trying to get the whole-year results for 2011 will only show "0" as the result of all months in 2011. For more details, see: User:Killiondude/stats. -Wikid77 (talk) 15:59, 14 July 2011 (UTC)
    Hi. I don't have tool of my own, I just took a lot of frequently asked questions on henrik's talk page and created an FAQ of sorts. But to answer your first question, Vlad, there's no way to do that presently. The way things are arranged currently, the stats are getting pageview data by URL. So if they view a file hosted on Commons on any local wiki it will take into account the en.wikipedia.org url rather than the commons.wikimedia.org url. But I agree that it would be nice to know global file view data. Killiondude (talk) 18:08, 14 July 2011 (UTC)

July again and stats are missing

Henrik, it is mid-July again, and some stats are logging as "0" as if the database diskspace is full again (being July). I hope you check to get this message. -Wikid77 15:40, 14 July 2011 (UTC)

Pageviews statistics tool

Very useful! My poor english can't tell all I would like to tell you about it! Don't stop having care of it, please. --Famgdc (talk) 17:14, 14 July 2011 (UTC)

yes, henrik, your tool is most appreciated by many many users. all the more pitiful that it seems to have stopped counting 2 days ago! maybe you could have a look? thanks, Ca$e (talk) 17:27, 14 July 2011 (UTC)

stats.grok.se

Hi, your statistics are really nice :-) I've got one question though: could you add Incubator to the special wikis, next to Meta & Commons? Thanks! SPQRobin (talk) 00:49, 18 July 2011 (UTC)

Hi, yes I love your stats tool too. But could it also cover wikiversity and perhaps the other sister projects?Leutha (talk) 21:09, 20 July 2011 (UTC)

The Signpost: 18 July 2011

http://stats.grok.se/pl/top

Is it possible to show pageviews from entire year to avoid seasonal anomalies (Christmas Eve, Santa Claus, Christmas, film aired during this time, every year )? Bulwersator (talk) 09:05, 22 July 2011 (UTC)

PST Review

Hi Henrik,

I am new @ editing (have 0 thus far, just getting adjusted to the wiki interface). tdp> I think you should keep the program for analyzing the viewership of articles, I enjoy using it for analysis and think it is very useful.

Thank you,

Wade Edward Sidley (SidmasterSid) Sidmastersid (talk) 05:57, 24 July 2011 (UTC)

Sidmastersid (talk) 05:57, 24 July 2011 (UTC)

The Signpost: 25 July 2011

Stats missing from July 25 onward

25. and 26. July are missing, probably down again. Thanks for checking. --KurtR (talk) 08:11, 27 July 2011 (UTC)

pageviews statistics tool has been down for two days

Hello, the pageviews statistics tool has stopped working for two days. Could you get it back running? Thanks. Gracefish (talk) 10:55, 27 July 2011 (UTC)

Shift Statistics Column

Hello, From 26th July there is shift Statistics without new elements (talk) --Dgolitsis (talk) 07:54, 28 July 2011 (UTC)

July 28

Stats still not up and running. Thanks for whenever you get this back, Henrik. Maile66 (talk) 15:27, 28 July 2011 (UTC)

Statistical page

Hello Henrik,

First of all, thank you for those statistical pages. It seems that the updating failed since a couple of days. Perhaps is it normal? I'm not very used to wikipedia. (my apologies for my bad english ).

Bye, Madelgarius (talk) 15:36, 28 July 2011 (UTC)

Stats page

Like others, July 28 and the stats page is not updating. It merely slides the old results under the new dates. I really miss this reporting tool.— Preceding unsigned comment added by Tommyt.tft (talk • contribs) 28 July 2011

French page viws statistics

Hello !

There haven't been any French Wikipédia pageviews statistics available since the 24 of July 2011... What's the problem ? Best Regards Erwann — Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.103.224.32 (talk) 09:36, 29 July 2011 (UTC)

Henrik has no contributions since 23 March 2011! So it looks very bad for the statistics. 77.4.243.94 (talk) 22:31, 29 July 2011 (UTC)
He has always responded to emails in the past, even when he didn't edit that much. So, who of you finds the "E-mail this user" link? Or am I the only one who sees it? --Sitacuisses (talk) 00:01, 30 July 2011 (UTC)

The Signpost: 01 August 2011

Thanks for the traffic page

The traffice statistics page is very useful, thank you. I use it quite a lot. It is really helpful to get some idea of if a page is being used.Pmccawley (talk) 04:06, 3 August 2011 (UTC)

Harpers Bazar 1860's and 70's

  Hi Henrik,

I was searching for information about this publication as I have about 100 of them. some still cottoned together as they were shipped out to New Zealand and Australia in the sailing ships in the 1870's. As many are in pristine condition, I have been looking for some reference point to find out if they are rare, their value, and if there is interest in them. I even have a Christmas issue that has colour. Thank you for your efforts, and I would look forward to your comments. Nic Turner Gold Coast, Australia ngturner@onthenet.com.au--120.29.33.175 (talk) 21:11, 3 August 2011 (UTC)

Check ebay and abebooks.com to see if anyone is selling (or has sold, ebay has history) some specific issues which you have. The value to a true collector is in the set, too often people destroy irreplaceable, finite editions of works to, for example, sell "authentic 18th century print"s. Auction houses also run specialty theme auctions, you might look for those in locales which have reputations as being "bookish." PЄTЄRS J V ►TALK 03:21, 4 August 2011 (UTC)

The Signpost: 08 August 2011

stats.grok.se

Hei Henrik, first of all I'd like to thank you for this gorgeous tool! :-) I have a suggestion: placing links as following would easify navigation further:

Greets, Carbenium (talk) 20:10, 14 August 2011 (UTC)

Pictures on your user page

Hi, I just noticed that the alt-text for four pictures on your user page say 'toothbrushes', even though only one picture is of toothbrushes. Chris857 (talk) 20:33, 14 August 2011 (UTC)

Query About Article Stats

Dear Henrik, your article stats are an invaluable resource for the Wikipedia community. Many thanks for creating and maintaining them and please keep up with the good work.

I have a question about them though: do they count multiple accesses from the same IP address during the day or not. The reason for asking this is that I created and have been maintaining a page about business informatics (İşletme enformatiği) in Turkish. From time to time, I get heavily involved with the page and coincidentally I observe spikes on these days's data.

Best regards,

Mmalbayrakoglu (talk) 08:20, 15 August 2011 (UTC)

The Signpost: 15 August 2011

Re Gjeke Marinaj's page

Hi Henrik,

Can you please fix the page view statistics for Gjeke Marinaj. The problem is that he has two different page view statistics; one under the name Gjeke Marinaj (247 views) and the other under the name Gjekë Marinaj (427 views). I tried to fix it but obviously I do not know how. To see this go under the bars and in the “Enter another Wikipedia article title” delete the ë and replace it with an e without the dots and press: go.

I thought you might be able to fix this problem so his views are combined into one page view.

Best, John Spring Ps. My email address is johnspring1990@yahoo.com — Preceding unsigned comment added by Johnspring (talk • contribs) 10:27, 17 August 2011 (UTC)

Article Validation

Hello Henrik,

I´m new in Wikipedia and need your help in one question, please. I have just edited a new article (Battle of Toro, August 10). I say new because I deleted completely the previous one (a stub). My username is Hispanicultur.

My question is: how can I know if the article I edited is or will be approved by any one with power to do it? Is there any limit of time? I think I read about 60 days. Should I contact any of the editors of that page and ask their approval? I will appreciate an answer from you.

Thanks.

PS: Can you answer me to my email? evoefernandes@yahoo.com ( I don’t know how to work with templates and so I have/had to ask someone to do it for me). Thank you again! ----Hispanicultur (talk) 13:17, 18 August 2011 (UTC)


Unique Visitors vs Page Views

Question for you, does your wiki hit counter script do Unique Visitors (counted only once) or does it just count page views? I'm guessing that since you named it pageview counter, that its page views and not unique visits but since this isn't addressed in your FAQ, could you clarify this? Excellent and resourceful script, btw, thanks for writing it and making it available. Jason (talk) 03:49, 21 August 2011 (UTC)

Wikipedia article traffic statistics

Hello henrik, i have seen your tool "Wikipedia article traffic statistics" and i have included in to wiki articels (chiemgau impact research team and chiemgau-einschlag). i think it is a very good tool and i hope it will released. Josefhuber (talk) 08:33, 21 August 2011 (UTC)

Wikipedia article traffic statistics

Hello henrik, i have seen your tool "Wikipedia article traffic statistics" and i have included in to wiki articels (chiemgau impact research team and chiemgau-einschlag). i think it is a very good tool and i hope it will released. Josefhuber (talk) 08:33, 21 August 2011 (UTC)

The Signpost: 22 August 2011

Pageviews statistic tool - traffic source diversification

Hey Henrik, I found your statistics tool some does ago and was wondering, if there is also data available, in which the different traffic sources are distinguished. I'm especially interested in the traffic attributed to search engines (mainly google) to compare the numbers to googles offical traffic tool ( https://adwords.google.de/select/KeywordToolExternal ). This would be incredible useful for online marketeres. But since wikipedia is cited a lot in the web, I can take the raw number of your tool only as an upper bound for traffic that might come via seach engines.

I took a look into your sources ( http://dammit.lt/wikistats/ ) but this seems to be only the raw number of pageviews per page...

Any help would be greatly appreciated ;)

Cheers Pascal — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hirnhamster (talk • contribs) 23:55, 22 August 2011 (UTC)

Wiki stats

Hello Sir,

I've just noticed the wiki stats tool and I wonder if there's a similar tool (or available raw data) for other projects such as Wiktionary and Wikiquote.

Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kimi17 (talk • contribs) 17:21, 26 August 2011 (UTC)

Hi. Yes, it's already available in Henrik's tool. Good day. Killiondude (talk) 21:00, 26 August 2011 (UTC)

New addition to wikistats?

I have not noticed this text before: "This article ranked xxx in traffic on en.wikipedia.org."

Is it new? How often does the rank change- I see it stays constant during different time periods? Ottawahitech (talk) 09:50, 27 August 2011 (UTC)

Jean Thurel on DYK STATS

Hello ! On 14 July 2011, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Jean Thurel, which get over 17.9k views[3]. It probably deserves to be mentioned on DYK STATS, don't you think ? UltimaRatio (talk) 15:23, 28 August 2011 (UTC)

The Signpost: 29 August 2011

hit count question

Hello there Henrik,

I am trying to find how many times a page (in both french and english) has been accessed since January of this year. Is there an easy way to do this?

the page I am looking for is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrefour_Laval

Thank-you!

Abbouna (talk) 16:47, 30 August 2011 (UTC)

Incoherence pages views / article rank

Just to let you know I think there might be some small bug in your article ranking logic. For example:

  • Cell_(biology) has been viewed 120328 times in 201108. This article ranked 3342 in traffic on en.wikipedia.org.
  • Medicine has been viewed 79805 times in 201108. This article ranked 2899 in traffic on en.wikipedia.org.

The latter has a smaller number of counts but a "better" ranking.

Probably not very important but I thought I'd let you know.

Thanks for a really great tool!

PS: or could it be that ranking is based on bytes transfered and that therefore article size acts as a multiplier? Anyway, great tool, thanks again.

— Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.240.28.59 (talk) 14:52, 31 August 2011 (UTC)

Hourly Wikipedia Traffic

You should track the traffic hourly along with how you do it daily, monthly, and yearly. By the minute or ticker would be even better!--75.139.100.70 (talk) 16:32, 3 September 2011 (UTC)

Article traffic statistics not updated?

There doesn't seem to be any article traffic statistics since September 1: http://stats.grok.se/en/201109/Tom%20Cruise . Thue | talk 08:34, 4 September 2011 (UTC)

Does page view statistics include red link views?

I notice that page view statistics for The Man Who Crossed Hitler is showing traffic for the three days before the article was created. Is this the number of times people clicked on a red link? Jim Craigie (talk) 04:39, 30 August 2011 (UTC)

Yes Electron9 (talk) 02:42, 6 September 2011 (UTC)

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The stats tool that Henrik built has definitely improved my Wikipedia experience. Thank you! Ottawahitech (talk) 20:40, 4 September 2011 (UTC)

The Signpost: 05 September 2011

Page views for the current year?

For an article like laundry symbol one can view the page views per month for august or september it works alright. But if page views for the current year 2011 is requested then, there's nothing. But another year like 2010 works alright. Could you fix stats for the current year? Another neat number in the page views would be the mean number of page views. As this makes it easier to spot significant changes. Electron9 (talk) 02:55, 6 September 2011 (UTC)

Wikipedia article traffic statistics not updating

The stats seem to be not updating again. Mine haven't changed in the last 3 days.

Same on wikibooks : http://stats.grok.se/en.b/201109/OpenGL_Programming T-T
Is there a way we can help? Beuc (talk) 18:21, 4 September 2011 (UTC)

Yeah, it doesn't work... But why ? Please, give us some explanations ! Thanks.

IP, 6 September 2011 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.14.91.177 (talk) 07:43, 6 September 2011 (UTC)

It me it seems that the raw data is being collected correctly, see http://dammit.lt/wikistats/. So it seems that there's something wrong with the tool. The Wikimedia Foundation has been planning to create a better tool for this. I don't know what the status is, though. Perhaps ask User:Erik Zachte, he's the foundation's statistic's guy. -- Duesentrieb-formerly-Gearloose (?!) 14:17, 7 September 2011 (UTC)

Page Views

Hello Henrik, ..There's no pageviews statistics for the French Wikipedia anymore since the 1rst of September. Is there any problem ? Thanks for your efforts. Best regards, Matthieu — Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.52.108.46 (talk) 16:10, 6 September 2011 (UTC)

My column statistics are remove

From six days before Dgolitsis--Dgolitsis (talk) 22:48, 6 September 2011 (UTC)

Total Number of Views

The statistic tool you made is amazing!! But i think you should add a function which adds the total of the views of an article in all time — Preceding unsigned comment added by 93.109.89.152 (talk) 15:46, 5 September 2011 (UTC)

question

I have been using the Wikipedia article traffic statistics for a couple of weeks now. I wonder if its not possible to add this nice app to the Wikipedia articles themselves. I mean... as a button allowing you to check the number of visits directly? Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by Albert Kok (talk • contribs) 17:21, 7 September 2011 (UTC)

ThumbsUp for this suggestion Ottawahitech (talk) 05:13, 8 September 2011 (UTC)
There's a script for this somewhere so it puts it on in the toolbx on the left side of the page for users who've opted in. Failing that, there's a link on the history view for each page. Killiondude (talk) 08:24, 10 September 2011 (UTC)

Wikipedia article traffic statistics

Hello! I ask you to add the Tatar Wikipedia here. Thank you! --Zahidulla (talk) 08:13, 10 September 2011 (UTC)

Viola. Killiondude (talk) 08:22, 10 September 2011 (UTC)

Stats for article 'Yeung Kui-wan'

The 'Yeung Kui-wan' article has been newly created by renaming the article 'Yang Quyun'. At present, the statistics are typical for a new article, but also include hits on the 'Yeung Kui-wan Redirect' to the old 'Yang Quyun' article.

Would it be possible for the statistics for this article be integrated with the old statistics when it was called 'Yang Quyun'? Duncan.france (talk) 00:35, 11 September 2011 (UTC)

The Signpost: 12 September 2011

Incorrect stats?

http://stats.grok.se/en.b/201109/OpenGL_Programming

30,000 visits on September 8th?? That would be great, but none of the other wikibooks page show any increase in traffic, so I suppose there's a bug somewhere :/ — Preceding unsigned comment added by Beuc (talk • contribs) 08:10, 10 September 2011 (UTC)

You could check yourself to see if the bug was in Henrik's tool or the source data by reviewing the source. http://dammit.lt/wikistats/ Killiondude (talk) 08:21, 10 September 2011 (UTC)
Here you go:
pagecounts-20110908-000000.gz:en.b OpenGL_Programming 3 42536
pagecounts-20110908-010000.gz:en.b OpenGL_Programming 4 54168
pagecounts-20110908-020000.gz:en.b OpenGL_Programming 4 54163
pagecounts-20110908-030000.gz:en.b OpenGL_Programming 5 100697
pagecounts-20110908-040000.gz:en.b OpenGL_Programming 7 95046
pagecounts-20110908-050001.gz:en.b OpenGL_Programming 4 54172
pagecounts-20110908-060000.gz:en.b OpenGL_Programming 7 141103
pagecounts-20110908-070000.gz:en.b OpenGL_Programming 6 81506
pagecounts-20110908-080000.gz:en.b OpenGL_Programming 10 109839
pagecounts-20110908-090000.gz:en.b OpenGL_Programming 3 29387
pagecounts-20110908-100000.gz:en.b OpenGL_Programming 9 109764
pagecounts-20110908-110000.gz:en.b OpenGL_Programming 10 280974
pagecounts-20110908-120000.gz:en.b OpenGL_Programming 4 43191
pagecounts-20110908-130000.gz:en.b OpenGL_Programming 10 114385
pagecounts-20110908-140000.gz:en.b OpenGL_Programming 4 43032
pagecounts-20110908-150000.gz:en.b OpenGL_Programming 6 57735
pagecounts-20110908-160001.gz:en.b OpenGL_Programming 7 86035
pagecounts-20110908-170000.gz:en.b OpenGL_Programming 6 189089
pagecounts-20110908-180000.gz:en.b OpenGL_Programming 5 72951
pagecounts-20110908-190000.gz:en.b OpenGL_Programming 14 105285
pagecounts-20110908-200000.gz:en.b OpenGL_Programming 15 186706
pagecounts-20110908-210000.gz:en.b OpenGL_Programming 33 513675
pagecounts-20110908-220000.gz:en.b OpenGL_Programming 18 210993
pagecounts-20110908-230000.gz:en.b OpenGL_Programming 16 209817

=> 210

This means there's a bug in Henrik's tool? Beuc (talk) 12:05, 12 September 2011 (UTC)

It seems that the tool is posting to the wrong day. Looking at http://stats.grok.se/en.b/201109/OpenGL_Programming, 210 views should be on the 8th and 30k views on the 9th. http://stats.grok.se/en.b/latest/OpenGL_Programming has the days correct. —Bruce1eetalk 14:31, 12 September 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for the info:
pagecounts-20110909-110000.gz:en.b OpenGL_Programming 12764 178958480
pagecounts-20110909-120000.gz:en.b OpenGL_Programming 16951 237687842

So that would be in the stats. That's pretty weird. Do you have any contact who could investigate? Beuc (talk) 09:39, 13 September 2011 (UTC)

Henrik hasn't been active here since March this year, so I doubt he'll see this. I did send him an email last week at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:EmailUser/Henrik about this issue, but I haven't heard from him. The only other person I can think of is Killiondude, who responded above. —Bruce1eetalk 10:07, 13 September 2011 (UTC)
Henrik occasionally uses irc. I can poke him there if I see him but from what I've heard he also checks his email somewhat frequently. It's really nice of Henrik to put this tool together but it's also very lazy for the Wikimedia Foundation to not have a tool like this of their own. Relying on a third party volunteer for years is not ideal. Killiondude (talk) 03:04, 14 September 2011 (UTC)
I agree, and kudos to Henrik. —Bruce1eetalk 05:01, 14 September 2011 (UTC)
For what it's worth, I've noticed incorrect data on a minor level for a long time. By that I'm talking about pages that average under a hundred hits a day. Some days, the exact number of hits register two or more days in a row. I'll test it by adding a random number of extra hits on my own. And, yet, it still does that repetition error. And after a few days, the stats go up or down. I think either the source data or the tool is not 100% accurate all the time.Maile66 (talk) 15:13, 14 September 2011 (UTC)

deletion of Letter to Hillary Clinton

Hello Henrik, could you please lend a hand with my, continuing problems with getting a new article up, I wrote the page first and then adjusted the main page of Rick Perry for reflect the same wording. I would like your hep to recreate the letter.

Since you seem to be from Sweden, I have a question about Wikileaks,

Lastly do you remember this,

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/mar/17/us-spy-operation-social-networks

Military's 'sock puppet' software creates fake online identities to spread pro-American propaganda

The article of course notes the use of fake accounts for American purposes and I believe naturally that other countries could use the same tactic to influence American elections

The reason I mention it is noted on the Discussion page of Rick Perry

thx, Chris ConnollySnettie 15:25, 17 September 2011 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Snettie (talk • contribs)

The Signpost: 19 September 2011

Stats out of order

Stats out of order ! Please give us some explanations. Best regards !

IP, 24 September 2011 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.14.91.177 (talk) 09:19, 23 September 2011 (UTC)

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The creation of the statistics tool in wikipedia is really motivating. Thanks! Georgy90 (talk) 06:38, 24 September 2011 (UTC)

traffic statistics

Hello Henrik. I think there is a gap of one day between the real traffic and the statistics (at least in wp.fr), can you check it ? Best regards.Lylvic (talk) 10:04, 24 September 2011 (UTC)

Just to let you know there is more discussion about this at User_talk:Henrik#1_day_missing_in_the_great_pageviews_statistics_tool Ottawahitech (talk) 16:28, 25 September 2011 (UTC)

The Signpost: 26 September 2011


page view stats

This is just a message to say that I find the beta page view stats both useful and interesting. 81.132.156.18 (talk) 19:10, 1 October 2011 (UTC)

Page view statistics

Dear Henrik,

I was delighted to discover your pageview stats interface. I had no idea so many people were looking at my humble articles, and now I know. I hope it will not, as the warning at the bottom of the page suggests, just disappear one day.

All the best,

Jack — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jackpickard1985 (talk • contribs) 22:22, 2 October 2011 (UTC)

Page view stats not working

For example at http://stats.grok.se/en/201109/Michael_Jackson , there were no hits after 28th of September. Thue | talk 14:34, 3 October 2011 (UTC)

Seconded, the stats is down again.Lihaas (talk) 02:02, 4 October 2011 (UTC)

Top articles by rank

I was viewing the stats for the Brett Favre page and it indicated that it was ranked #505 in views. It would be cool if I could then click on a link to take me to a list of the top 'x' number of viewed pages. Let me know your thoughts. Stylteralmaldo (talk) 00:09, 4 October 2011 (UTC)

Article traffic statistics not updated

I saw the article only Kastoria- Greece. There doesn't seem to be any article traffic statistics since 4 October Dgolitsis 15:17, 4 October 2011 (UTC)

Why are there views showing for non-existent articles?

I have just added a new article Randall Denley to Wikipedia, but was surprised to find out it already had some views recorded before I created it: http://stats.grok.se/en/latest/Randall_Denley Just curious why that is? Ottawahitech (talk) 17:21, 17 September 2011 (UTC)

Were there red-links from other articles to this article before you created it? I think clicks to red-linked (non-existent) articles are recorded as well. —Bruce1eetalk 07:37, 18 September 2011 (UTC)
In the last couple of days I tried to add some wikilinks (so that I could build an article), but they were promptly removed. In any case, I just found out that in July of this year there were 82 views of this (at the time, non-existent) article. So how is this possible? Ottawahitech (talk) 20:12, 18 September 2011 (UTC)
That's because the article existed back then; it was deleted on July 20 (see here). —Bruce1eetalk 05:01, 19 September 2011 (UTC)
Thanks so much for the information. Is there a way to find out also what were the contents of the old deleted article? I ask because Randall Denley is threatened with deletion, once more, even though it has had over 300 views in the last couple of days. Not too shabby for a stub that has only been up for 4 days in my experience. Ottawahitech (talk) 05:16, 21 September 2011 (UTC)
You can contact the admin who deleted it for the contents, or any other admin for that matter. —Bruce1eetalk 05:31, 21 September 2011 (UTC)
Thanks again. Just wondering if there is a way to get the information without inconveniencing an overworked wikipedian :-) Ottawahitech (talk) 16:33, 25 September 2011 (UTC)
Just in case anyone is interested, the article I was talking about has now been deleted, but managed to receive over 2,000 hits according to Henrik's tool at: http://stats.grok.se/en/latest/Randall_Denley Ottawahitech (talk) 16:39, 25 September 2011 (UTC)

The article about Randall Denley was deleted/redirected as a result of an AFD on Sept 25. I just noticed traffic to this article started building up again on Sept 27 and the Sept views now total 2,120. Can anyone here explain this mystery? Ottawahitech (talk) 12:07, 30 September 2011 (UTC)

I don't think there's anything unusual about this. The article still exists (albeit as a redirect), and people are still hitting on it. It could also be a carryover from the AFD – even though the debate is closed, people are still interested in the results. —Bruce1eetalk 12:27, 30 September 2011 (UTC)
I remember looking up what happens when an article is redirected, but I forget where I saw it. I thought that in those cases the stats count went somewhere else? BTW sorry for missing the previouds response - too busy with elections I suppose :-) Ottawahitech (talk) 12:41, 6 October 2011 (UTC)

the statistics page down...

It is now up and running. Thank you! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.220.117.40 (talk) 16:34, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

Hi, I am a Ph.D. student who is interested in Domas Mituzas's Wikipedia traffic statistics. I have been regularly accessing the URL: http://dammit.lt/wikistats/ to retrieve the most recent statistics. It seems that it is down at the moment for a few days. Is it really down? If it is down, when will it be back up and running?

Sincerely, 128.220.117.40 (talk) 23:06, 3 October 2011 (UTC)

The Signpost: 3 October 2011

September 30

Hi Henrik-

Thanks so much for your Wikipedia traffic stats. I love to keep track of traffic to sites I have edited. I noticed that there are no traffic stats for Sept 30. Is that data lost forever? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Greenebee (talk • contribs) 20:33, 8 October 2011 (UTC)

Thank you, Henrik, for maintaining the stats counters--very useful and important! Greenebee is correct. +I have further discovered that when looking at the "last 30 days" (/en/latest/----) the numbers are shifted by two days from viewing the month of September (en/201109/----). Possible array indexing bug(?) Thanks. RCraig09 (talk) 03:44, 9 October 2011 (UTC)

article traffic statistics tool is an excellent tool

It helped me a lot. Thank you — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cangaran (talk • contribs) 14:26, 10 October 2011 (UTC)

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For creating this so motivating Statistics tool Georgy90 (talk) 16:27, 10 October 2011 (UTC)

The Signpost: 10 October 2011

Anomalous page view stats

The page Mathematical_descriptions_of_opacity, an article rated low importance in Wikiproject physics, is credited with the most views of any physics article—by a factor of 10. That doesn't make any sense. RockMagnetist (talk) 16:50, 11 October 2011 (UTC)

I love your "Page View Statistics" report

But it does not seem to be updated much any more. The figures have been the same since last Friday on articles I've worked on such as Equal opportunity. Do you have to program the Page View Statistics tool manually? Is there anything I can do to help (I'm not much of a programmer). I would love for the feature to display the daily page view statistics somewhere on the article's face (so, I didn't have to click "History", then "Page View statistics") or if there was some other way in which I could automatically check readership levels of the articles I've worked on. Again, thanks for making this tool!--Tomwsulcer (talk) 15:52, 12 October 2011 (UTC)

dammit.lt/wikistats down again

Hi, it seems the dammit.lt/wikistats page went down again at least for two days. Could you please check it? Thanks! 128.220.117.40 (talk) 22:18, 12 October 2011 (UTC)

1 day missing in the great pageviews statistics tool

Hi Henrik,

Your pageviews statistics tool is great, and I periodically check it in the "Southamerica Life Quality Rankings" article I created. It worked perfect until almost 1 month ago, then somehow it stopped providing daily statistics, then it went back, but now it seems that 1 day is missing, overlapped or something else, not knowing if it’s the last day or some previous one.

The way to check what I say is opening the 30 continuous days original graph, which supposedly shows statistics until yesterday (September 20 in today’s case), but then when you check the current month statistics graph (201109 and "Go") the data exist only until September 19, which value is the same value the first graph shows for September 20, and where September 1 value is the one showed as September 2 value in the first graph. So far as I understand, correct August 31 value is indeed 178 in this article case and one September value is missing.

Southamerica2010 (talk) 14:18, 21 September 2011 (UTC)

The monthly figures appear to be one day off. Compare this with this. The view counts are the same in both graphs, but displaced by a day. See also this post above. —Bruce1eetalk 14:32, 21 September 2011 (UTC)

I checked a couple of minutes ago and now both graphs are displaced by 2 days. Southamerica2010 (talk) 23:06, 21 September 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for that. I don't know what's going on now. Henrik hasn't been active here since March this year and a few of us have been trying to contact him, but we have to remember that this is a personal project of his that he has kindly made public. —Bruce1eetalk 05:39, 22 September 2011 (UTC)
An additional detail about the displacement: the WP article about the order op operations, a school topic, should receive less page views on saturdays and sundays. But in this graph the minimum is displaced to Friday and Saturday, and in this graphit is displaced to Sunday and Monday. Ceinturion (talk) 21:20, 24 September 2011 (UTC)
Today I tried the stats programme on articles in several WPs, but the search always resulted in a total blank. What is happening? -- 79.168.88.85 (talk) 13:53, 22 September 2011 (UTC)
Which articles and which WPs are you looking at? —Bruce1eetalk 14:22, 22 September 2011 (UTC)

Thanks to Southamerica and to Bruce Lee for this information. I noticed myself a couple of weeks ago that the stats looked "funny". However, someone gave it a nudge and the system worked OK for a few days, but now we are back to a situation where the bars are not updating, but simply sliding forward to make it look like the tool is working, when in fact it is not. Yes, Henrik did a fantastic job, but isn't it time for Wikipedia to start officially supporting this wonderful tool? Ottawahitech (talk) 01:36, 23 September 2011 (UTC)

I agree, Wikipedia should lend a hand here. —Bruce1eetalk 05:58, 23 September 2011 (UTC)
Just a speculation - and I sure hope I am wrong: it appears that the readership of Wikipedia is trending down. At least that of the Main page is:
Main_Page has been viewed
2,193,142,791 times in 2008.
1,869,746,634 times in 2009
1,615,820,740 times in 2010 Ottawahitech (talk) 03:31, 27 September 2011 (UTC)
I'll add a third to the view that Wikipedia should support the tool that gives us the daily and monthly count of readers. It certainly inspires me to know that somebody, somewhere is reading articles to which I have contributed. Smallchief (talk) 00:42, 1 October 2011 (UTC)

Please correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems that everything is back to normal again. Compare this with this. —Bruce1eetalk 08:03, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

I am afraid not. The last statistics now available are from Oct 7 - we are now almost a week behind. Ottawahitech (talk) 01:47, 14 October 2011 (UTC)
Yes I see that, it looks like the tool is offline again. —Bruce1eetalk 05:26, 14 October 2011 (UTC)

Stats R dead

http://stats.grok.se/pt/201110/Mulher_na_hist%C3%B3ria <> No stats here for long time!! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 187.21.130.239 (talk) 08:31, 14 October 2011 (UTC)
READ the above posting. Electron9 (talk) 12:15, 14 October 2011 (UTC)
Henrik might get too busy, get sick or fall in love. One has to write a petiton to Wikimedia asking them to support Henrik's tool. Абендфарт (talk) 13:36, 14 October 2011 (UTC)

Invalid page view statistics

As Henrik hasn't been around since march 2011. I just want to make others to be aware of that the diagrams for the "latest" views displays inaccurate data. As an example the /latest/ shows 929 views 11 oct, and 1100 views 12 oct. But /201110/ shows 929 views 6 oct, and 1100 views 7 oct. So:

  1. There has been no data collection since 2011-10-07
  2. The /latest/ view lacks data validation

Electron9 (talk) 22:36, 12 October 2011 (UTC)

I have noticed the same thing too. Dr.K. λogosπraxis 01:04, 13 October 2011 (UTC)
Me three. Noticed same thing. No data for past 6-7 days. Does anyone else besides Henrik have access to the programming behind the Page View stats tool?--Tomwsulcer (talk) 01:10, 13 October 2011 (UTC)
I am not sure. This glitch though has brought DYK stats to a complete halt. Dr.K. λogosπraxis 01:22, 13 October 2011 (UTC)
Looking thru Henrik's FAQs, I found another way to get pageview stats but it is not as easy-to-read: alternate pageview tool. Right now it's programmed to do stats for Equal opportunity but other articles could presumably be checked. Rather interesting project this "Wiki-Watch", with mathematical algorithms to guess at Wikipedia contributor's "reputation" by looking at how long contributions stay, and assigning a reputation score on that basis.--Tomwsulcer (talk) 01:38, 13 October 2011 (UTC)
Very interesting. At least it is an alternative. Thank you for pointing it out. Dr.K. λogosπraxis 02:37, 13 October 2011 (UTC)
You're welcome. What I've been doing is taking the monthly totals, and averaging them to get a count of average page views per day. I think it is an important statistic which is underused. I'd love it to be more prominent, so anybody reading an article could get a sense of how many other people are looking at it that day. Articles with heavy readership tend to be (in my view) more accurate, better written, more informative. I'd also love some kind of tool which helped us contributors learn how many people (in total, by article, by month, by year possibly) had read our writings. So, I could say, hey guess what, 20 million people have read my stuff. That sort of thing. Even the knowledge of that I would find motivating.--Tomwsulcer (talk) 02:44, 13 October 2011 (UTC)
I know how to make a site like Henrik:s, BUT it also take some fat internet pipe, fast cpu, big disk etc.. = money for little gain.Electron9 (talk) 03:51, 13 October 2011 (UTC)
Cool that you have that capability. I wonder if Wikimedia could help encourage development along these lines, or possibly even advance funding.--Tomwsulcer (talk) 03:57, 13 October 2011 (UTC)
There have been several requests on this page (eg. here and here) for Wikimedia to help out. —Bruce1eetalk 05:20, 13 October 2011 (UTC)
Es ist sehr schade, dass die Zählung nicht mehr funktioniert. Ich habe mich gern und regelmäßig über die Zugriffe auf bestimmte Seiten informiert. Vielleicht kommt es irgendwann doch wieder in Gang? Ich würde mich freuen. -- Spurzem (talk) 11:01, 13 October 2011 (UTC)
(rough translation of above comment from Spurzen courtesy Google translate: It is a pity that the count does not work anymore. I gladly and regularly informed about access to certain pages. Maybe someday but it comes again? I would be happy.)--Tomwsulcer (talk) 11:21, 13 October 2011 (UTC)

Please don't use Google to translate the words of living people. I am sure it is a violation of our WP:BLP policies, but if it is not it should be. Use a living translator. (Like me.) It's a great pity that the counter is no longer functioning. I have happily and regularly used it to stay informed of the hit count for certain pages. Perhaps it will start working again some time? I would be happy about that. Rumiton (talk) 04:27, 15 October 2011 (UTC)

The data source dammit.lt (Lithuania) for stats.grok.se is down it seems. Thus stats.grok.se likely works, but don't get any raw data. Others:

So the data is there, but we can't access it. Best hope seems to be an yet unknown toolserver service, in case anyone could find one? Electron9 (talk) 17:19, 14 October 2011 (UTC)

Don't forget this alternate pageview tool -- just substitute the name of the article in the box and you should get numbers on the left hand side; the bar chart is somewhat hard to read.--Tomwsulcer (talk) 19:06, 14 October 2011 (UTC)