Gregory Maxwell wrote:
On 9/8/06, Akash Mehta draicone@gmail.com wrote:
I'm sure it wouldn't be very expensive. All that needs to be done is that the external (non-interwiki) link code passes URLs through a script on a server that counts the number of clicks to that particular link and then passes the user on to the appropriate site, which would probably be specified through GET. I'll code it if I have time today, its very simple in php, and using a database means that statistics can be generated VERY easily.
Turning every external link follow into a database write on Wikipedia is simply not going to be acceptable.
We don't currently log HTTP GETs for a reason...
I was going to suggest log parsing when I first saw this then I realized from my own work how unrealistic it would be to do very much logging on wikipedia.
SKL