On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 8:42 AM, Syagrius syagrius@gmx.fr wrote:
The recent mass bot addition on Portuguese Wikisource (whose "number of articles" overtook French and Chinese) should make us think about changing the main page system. There was a discussion there : http://wikisource.org/wiki/Talk:Main_Page#Changing_the_main_page . Must we adopt the "page views" system, as Wikipedia did, http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikisource/EN/TablesPageViewsMonthly.htm ?
Page views is based on the expectation that those views are *readers*, and is appropriate for Wikipedia which has become part of typical Internet usage the average person.
A large percentage of our page views will be *editors* and *bots*.
If we do go to page views, we might also want to weight the page views based on average page size.
-- John Vandenberg