Thank you to efforts by people like domas, and Henrik we now have half
decent statistics. They are as follows:
*giant logs of how many hits per page -
http://dammit.lt/wikistats/
*Visualization tool (shows bargraph of hits per day, over a period of
1 month. currently has wikipedia plastered everywhere, it really is
wikinews though) -
http://stats.grok.se/en.n/200806/Main_Page
*Popular over the last hour -
http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/template:Popular_articles
Woohoo!
-bawolff