Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona, 12/11/2013 10:24:
This is a development we're doing not in connection with our provision of metrics about MediaWiki, therefore it is not specifically aimed at improving the stats you currently have. In fact, it has been developed exactly for the scenario you mention: MediaWiki instances for which you want the get metrics via the API, not dumps.
Ok. If this includes self-hosted wikis, you may want to look into https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/StatMediaWiki . Hm, I thought that used direct DB queries but I may misremember.
Nemo