John Vandenberg a écrit :
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*.
there is no perfect system.
for small subdomains with few page views, it is true that pages views are likely to be caused by editors and bots (I suppose you mean search engine bots rather than our wiki bots).
If you consider this table : http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikisource/EN/TablesPageViewsMonthly.htm you can see that the top 10 domains all have had months with more than 1million page views.
For these subdomains, the bias induced by bots should be small.
This is not true for the traffic caused by editors. However, I would say that this part of the traffic is not completely meaningless.
Thomas