Hi.
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.
Currently, if you want data on, for example, every article on the English Wikipedia, you'd have to make 3.7 million individual HTTP requests to Henrik's tool. At one per second, you're looking at over a month's worth of continuous fetching. This is obviously not practical.
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?)
Is it worth a Toolserver user's time to try to create a database of per-project, per-page page view statistics? Is it worth a grant from the Wikimedia Foundation to have someone work on this? Is it worth trying to convince Wikimedia Deutschland to assign resources? And, of course, it wouldn't be a bad idea if Domas' first-pass implementation was improved on Wikimedia's side, regardless.
Thoughts and comments welcome on this. There's a lot of desire to have a usable system.
MZMcBride