John Vandenberg a écrit :
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*.
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