[WikiEN-l] hit counts on articles/pages

[Charlotte Webb]

On 5/21/07, Joe Szilagyi <szilagyi at gmail.com> wrote:
> It might not be completely encyclopediac, but having this enabled and
> tracked could be of tremendous use to see what people are actually *looking*
> for. The technical overhead could be extreme from something like this, but
> I'm not sure. Perhaps a section of the encyclopedia with the Top 10 Pages By
> View for each given name space--main, main talk, Wikipedia, Image, Portal,
> etc., and then perhaps also broken down by certain designated categories?
> I.e., the Top 10 BLP articles, the Top 10 Geography Articles, and so on.
> Perhaps sorted by Month, with the results clearing each month, if a raw
> ongoing count would be too intensive?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Mostrevisions might be a good
place to start. Except a lot of these most-edited pages are usually
semi-protected, so the percentage of non-editing readers will be much
higher for those, but hopefully much closer to equal for all
non-protected pages.

—C.W.