Wikipedia article stats
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Re: Wikipedia article stats
Any red-blooded contributor to Did You Know... is invited to monitor how much the DYK causes the page views of the subject page to rise. So, the nominator/DYK author gets an automated notice template of the existence of this tool when the DYK item runs on the main page. Perhaps this is a tacit admission that DYK is more about SEO and the passing of Google Juice to obscure subjects than it is a service to general Main Page readers. E.g., http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk: ... art.C3.ADnCa$hBag wrote: If this has already been shared
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Re: Wikipedia article stats
On a similar note, I'd like to mention that the "View history" tab will enable you to see, in chronological order, which editors have modified the article in question.Ca$hBag wrote:http://stats.grok.se/
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Re: Wikipedia article stats
There are major differences between the two. The history tab was an integral part of the website/Mediawiki design, and serves a legitimate role in building an encyclopedia. The page view count tool is outside the website design, and is rarely relevant to building a good encyclopedia. It is used by editors seeking bragging rights or perhaps by SEO guys wishing to quantify their paid achievement to their clients.thekohser wrote:On a similar note, I'd like to mention that the "View history" tab will enable you to see, in chronological order, which editors have modified the article in question.Ca$hBag wrote:http://stats.grok.se/
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Re: Wikipedia article stats
Knowledge of page-view statistics has informed my choice of DYK hooks and attempts to have an image in the hook, because I have wanted to attract readers. The DYK hook occurs after the article is created. To simplify the task of a DYK reviewer, I sometimes moved the DYK hook to the lede; otherwise, the DYK has had no direct relation to my articles.eagle wrote:There are major differences between the two. The history tab was an integral part of the website/Mediawiki design, and serves a legitimate role in building an encyclopedia. The page view count tool is outside the website design, and is rarely relevant to building a good encyclopedia. It is used by editors seeking bragging rights or perhaps by SEO guys wishing to quantify their paid achievement to their clients.thekohser wrote:On a similar note, I'd like to mention that the "View history" tab will enable you to see, in chronological order, which editors have modified the article in question.Ca$hBag wrote:http://stats.grok.se/
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Re: Wikipedia article stats
Whenever a comedian, most often Clownbert, mentions something, its Wikipedia article view skyrockets.
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Re: Wikipedia article stats
Are you referring to Stephen Colbert?Johnny Au wrote:Whenever a comedian, most often Clownbert, mentions something, its Wikipedia article view skyrockets.
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Re: Wikipedia article stats
What do you expect?Zoloft wrote:Are you referring to Stephen Colbert?Johnny Au wrote:Whenever a comedian, most often Clownbert, mentions something, its Wikipedia article view skyrockets.
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Re: Wikipedia article stats
I couldn't tell if you meant Colbert or some Dilbert character I wasn't familiar with.Johnny Au wrote:What do you expect?Zoloft wrote:Are you referring to Stephen Colbert?Johnny Au wrote:Whenever a comedian, most often Clownbert, mentions something, its Wikipedia article view skyrockets.
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Re: Wikipedia article stats
I meant Steve Clownbert of course, the one with all that truthlessness.
Yes, I do have so much fun with those satirical misspellings.
Yes, I do have so much fun with those satirical misspellings.
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Re: Wikipedia article stats
They are not funny, no matter which side of the aisle they target, and especially when they are obscure.Johnny Au wrote:I meant Steve Clownbert of course, the one with all that truthlessness.
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Re: Wikipedia article stats
I'm still going through some emotional and other health problems that need mending. But miracles always take their positive tolls, even if they are simply blind chance. It happens like that to everyone.thekohser wrote:
On a similar note, I'd like to mention that the "View history" tab will enable you to see, in chronological order, which editors have modified the article in question.
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Re: Wikipedia article stats
We seem to have a Mystery of September 3rd brewing, regarding Wikipedia traffic. For just about every article (that I've checked) on the English Wikipedia, there was a spike in traffic on September 3, 2014. Why? The Wikimedia Foundation would likely not explain, nor would even know how to explain.
http://stats.grok.se/en/201409/Harvard_Law_School
http://stats.grok.se/en/201409/A_Few_Good_Men
http://stats.grok.se/en/201409/EE_(tele ... s_company)
http://stats.grok.se/en/201409/Harvard_Law_School
http://stats.grok.se/en/201409/A_Few_Good_Men
http://stats.grok.se/en/201409/EE_(tele ... s_company)
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Re: Wikipedia article stats
I don't trust the grok.se stats site that much; there have been too many anomalies in the data it reports over the years for me to be confident in their data collection mechanism.
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Re: Wikipedia article stats
There's some sort of fluke in the data where August 28th is being added into Sept. 3. It shows up on every article Ming has checked so far.thekohser wrote:We seem to have a Mystery of September 3rd brewing, regarding Wikipedia traffic.
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Re: Wikipedia article stats
FTFYMing wrote:There's some sort of fluke standard Wikipedian programming competence in the data where August 28th is being added into Sept. 3. It shows up on every article Ming has checked so far.thekohser wrote:We seem to have a Mystery of September 3rd brewing, regarding Wikipedia traffic.
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Re: Wikipedia article stats
I love it when software malfunctions in this manner. Because when I see something like this, I have to think "what the fuck stupid thing did they do when writing this that a misoperation of this nature is even possible?" I can come up with approaches that might lead to such results, but they rely on software designs that border on Rube-Goldbergian in complexity, and I can't imagine why anyone would actually write code like that, except perhaps as a prank.Ming wrote:There's some sort of fluke in the data where August 28th is being added into Sept. 3. It shows up on every article Ming has checked so far.
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Re: Wikipedia article stats
I am not sure of the specifics, but there was some sort of outage affecting whatever server handles the page view statistics. I would imagine that you're seeing a by-product of that outage.
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Re: Wikipedia article stats
They just didn't make the software robust against that sort of thing. It could happen to anyone, couldn't it?Scott5114 wrote:I am not sure of the specifics, but there was some sort of outage affecting whatever server handles the page view statistics. I would imagine that you're seeing a by-product of that outage.
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Re: Wikipedia article stats
"If your input falls outside expected parameters, the result should be an error message, not an output report!"Poetlister wrote:They just didn't make the software robust against that sort of thing. It could happen to anyone, couldn't it?Scott5114 wrote:I am not sure of the specifics, but there was some sort of outage affecting whatever server handles the page view statistics. I would imagine that you're seeing a by-product of that outage.
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