On 2014-04-27 08:45, ENWP Pine wrote:
- I think it would be desirable to add an https option to
stats.grok.se so that viewers' interests in page readership statistics are more private.
Hm, why not? I'll request a certificate and start serving https also. I hadn't really thought of page readership statistics as something all that sensitive, but I don't see any downside to also serving https.
- There is an issue in the statistics given at [1]. As you can see
from [2] editors created and edited the project page on days when stats.grok.se said there were no pageviews. This may be the result of a page move [3] [4] and the pre-move views were not integrated into the results shown in [1]. Is this the expected and desired behavior? From my point of view as a Signpost author, this is undesirable as we try to track our readership statistics. I think it is the case that if page A is moved to new page B then the statistics for page A should be integrated into those for page B and a notice should be given to the viewer that the statistics for page B includes those from page A which was moved on date X. This problem may affect other pages that are the subject of mergers. I think it would be the case that if page A is merged into page B then we would want some notice to appear on stats.grok.se alerting the viewer that there was a merger, the date of the merger, and offering the viewer a way to select statistics with and without the historical information from page A as they look at the viewership statistics for page B.
That would indeed be better. However, the statistics data tracks URLs rather than pages and it's computationally expensive to look up the page history and what URLs it has been accessible through. The average throughput of view statistics is that some tens of thousands of entries are added per minute 24/7. One could perhaps do it as the data was requested, but that would mean making several round-trips to the WMF servers to look up the history of all moves and correlate URLs across time. It's certainly possible to build a tool that does that on top of the stats.grok.se and wikipedia APIs though.
-henrik