On 11/23/07, Mohamed Magdy mohamed.m.k@gmail.com wrote:
Hello
Is it possible to have such a feature on Wikimedia wikis? or it will not be accurate and have the same problem of page views?
It wouldn't exactly be possible. Tim suggested something of the sort, "Who's editing this page" (with a little chat thing, too!). The key issue is Squid caching: such a count probably would not include people being served cached pages. It would, however, likely include most logged-in users, since their page views frequently have to bypass cache, and they tend to do things like edit and view watchlists that aren't cached in the first place.
Needless to say, this would be likely to face stiff opposition from a lot of projects if it were anything other than opt-in, and probably wouldn't ever be implemented except on that basis, if it ever were at all.