Richard Symonds wrote:
This looks fantastic, and very useful! I'm not sure how related this is, but is there any way the page can also pull up page views? Or would that be a problem? My understanding is that page views puts too much load on the servers, so it may well be unworkable...
It's also be useful to be able to see how many editors, authors etc there were in the past 24 hours - again, I'm not sure if this is doable, but I thought I'd throw it out there!
Yes, I had a similar thought last evening. :-) I've filed a few bugs about this:
* "Incorporate analytics into MediaWiki's info action (tracking)" https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/41326
* "Add page views graph(s) to MediaWiki's info action" https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/41327
* "Add edit history graph(s) to MediaWiki's info action" https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/41329
Andy Mabbett wrote:
On 22 October 2012 22:41, MZMcBride z@mzmcbride.com wrote:
for some users (such as administrators), certain additional fields (such as the number of page watchers) will be displayed.
Why is this for admins only?
Good question! There's a thorough explanation of the background of this at https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/39957.
In short, the plan going forward is to make this value configurable per-wiki. So you'll have an "or" condition. Users will be able to see the number of page watchers if they have the "unwatchedpages" user right (by default, administrators have this user right) _or_ if the number of watchers meets or exceeds the value set (on a per-wiki basis) via a new configuration variable ($wgUnwatchedPageThreshold). So, for example, the English Wikipedia might set this value to 30, while smaller wikis might set it lower.
David Gerard wrote:
On 23 October 2012 10:59, Richard Symonds richard.symonds@wikimedia.org.uk wrote:
This looks fantastic, and very useful! I'm not sure how related this is, but is there any way the page can also pull up page views? Or would that be a problem? My understanding is that page views puts too much load on the servers, so it may well be unworkable...
History pages on en:wp already have a link to stats.grok.se, shouldn't be hard to put such a link here as well.
In fact, it's already there and has been for a few weeks. ;-) Part of the design of the action was to add a header and footer section. In this case, those exact links from ?action=history (where not all of them ever made much sense, honestly) have been copied to ?action=info. The relevant system message is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Pageinfo-footer.
MZMcBride