On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 8:42 AM, Syagrius <syagrius(a)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.
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John Vandenberg