On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 3:12 PM, MZMcBride
<z(a)mzmcbride.com> wrote:
I've been asked a few times recently about
doing reports of the most-viewed
pages per month/per day/per year/etc. A few years after Domas first started
publishing this information in raw form, the current situation seems rather
bleak. Henrik has a visualization tool with a very simple JSON API behind it
(<http://stats.grok.se>), but other than that, I don't know of any efforts
to put this data into a database.
[...]
A lot of people were waiting on Wikimedia's Open Web Analytics work to come
to fruition, but it seems that has been indefinitely put on hold. (Is that
right?)
That's correct. I owe everyone a longer writeup of our change in
direction on that project which I have the raw notes for.
Okay. Please be sure to copy this list on that write-up. :-)
As someone with most of the skills and resources (with the exception of
time, possibly) to create a page view stats database, reading something like
this makes me think it's not the worth the effort on my part, iff Wikimedia
is planning on devoting actual resources to the endeavor. Is that a
reasonable conclusion to draw? Is it unreasonable?
MZMcBride