Hi.
I've been asked a few times recently about doing reports of the most-viewed
pages per month/per day/per year/etc. A few years after Domas first started
publishing this information in raw form, the current situation seems rather
bleak. Henrik has a visualization tool with a very simple JSON API behind it
(<http://stats.grok.se>), but other than that, I don't know of any efforts
to put this data into a database.
Currently, if you want data on, for example, every article on the English
Wikipedia, you'd have to make 3.7 million individual HTTP requests to
Henrik's tool. At one per second, you're looking at over a month's worth of
continuous fetching. This is obviously not practical.
A lot of people were waiting on Wikimedia's Open Web Analytics work to come
to fruition, but it seems that has been indefinitely put on hold. (Is that
right?)
Is it worth a Toolserver user's time to try to create a database of
per-project, per-page page view statistics? Is it worth a grant from the
Wikimedia Foundation to have someone work on this? Is it worth trying to
convince Wikimedia Deutschland to assign resources? And, of course, it
wouldn't be a bad idea if Domas' first-pass implementation was improved on
Wikimedia's side, regardless.
Thoughts and comments welcome on this. There's a lot of desire to have a
usable system.
MZMcBride