Re: [Wikisource-l] skewed statistics

Wikistats numbers seem broken. Whether this is caused by incomplete dumps of bug in script I will have to investigate. Next week I'm on travel, not sure if I can find out earlier, we'll see. Let me explain why all months display lower counts: on every monthly run of wikistats nearly all data are regenerated from the dumps. This is on purpose. This way new functionality and (rare) bug fixes apply to all months since the creation of the wiki. The other side is that when stats scripts or dumps are broken reports will show wrong data for all months, which is what happened now (a hybrid situation with data retention and update runs would complicate processing further and easily be a source of errors itself). BTW For nice overview of local counts for all wikisource wikis see http://s23.org/wikistats/wikisources_html.php Erik Zachte -----Original Message----- From: wikisource-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:wikisource-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of teak Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2012 6:33 PM To: discussion list for Wikisource, the free library Subject: [Wikisource-l] skewed statistics Hi, does anyone know why the wikisource statistics are so skewed from what the local special:statistics shows? compare http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikiquote/EN/Sitemap.htm with, say, http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Special:Statistics This seems to affect only wikisource, as wikipedia and wikiqoute are fine... And which one is more trustworthy? teak _______________________________________________ Wikisource-l mailing list Wikisource-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikisource-l _______________________________________________ Wikisource-l mailing list Wikisource-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikisource-l