Miguel Chaves wrote:
Hi, I wonder if wikipedia only relies on this sort of
external statistics
(like Alexa) to gather information about visits to the sites.
Aren't there statistcs collected on wikipedia servers itself? This would be
more useful and reliable.
Not at this time. At our traffic level, web server logs are too large to handle
comfortably without a dedicated infrastructure, and we've been forced to simply
disable them until something easier to handle gets set up.
(If we were an ad-supported site, such statistics would be much much more
important and we'd have put in the time and money for it a lot sooner.)
BTW, if we want to know the popularity of an specific
article (not a
specific wikipedia), is there a tool for that?
Not really, sorry.
-- brion vibber (brion @
pobox.com)