Hi,
in light of the current switch from Wikistats 1 to Wikistats 2 I would
like to express a strong desire to get some additional features for the
statistcs. The rationale for this request is described below:
1. How many articles make up for 90 / 95 / 99 percent of all page views
over a certain period? Which articles are these? (live articles
excluding WP:xx and Spezial:xxx etc.)
2. Which share of page views goes to the Top 5% / Top 10% of our pages?
3. List of pages with less than x views per year (x = e.g. 12, 25, 100)
*Reasoning / Rationale*:
I am limiting myself to the German Wikipedia, assuming that the
situation is similar in other language WP's.
In the German Wikipedia we meanwhile have more than 2.2 million
articles. This produces an enormous maintenance workload, to keep up the
quality of articles. We clearly have too few people to do that
maintenance work.
This means that we have to focus our maintenance efforts on those
articles, which really matter and those are much more than the list of
1000 we get from the Top-Views stats. The reports suggested above will
give us exactly the information required to have an informed discussion
about the articles we should focus on. And the report under #3 will give
us a means to identify articles which we could either delete or clearly
label as 'out of maintenance'.
We do know that certain articles are 'en vogue' for a short period, as
they relate to current news topics. Therefore we must be able to have
above reports over a longer period (at least a year, maybe two) to
identify those articles which are really the long term favourites.
Best regards
Peter
my user page: Wikipeter-HH
<https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutzer:Wikipeter-HH>