On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 09:37:05AM +0200, Steve Bennett wrote:
On 7/25/06, mboverload <mboverload(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
I'm also interested....but I'm concerned
that a vandal could find articles
that are never looked at and target those. RC patrol can't get everything.
More information is a good thing, not a bad thing. If there was a
mechanism by which a vandal could target rarely viewed pages, then
there could be a mechanism whereby changes made to rarely viewed pages
(especially by anons!) are highlighted to patrollers.
Exactly.
I think there are a lot of tools of this nature which could be created
to aid the WP community in general, researchers (of which I am one), and
site admins in creating, understanding, and maintaining this community.
I've set up a page (Wikipedia:Pageviews) to discuss possible problems
with maintaining such data, tools to counter them, and tools that use
pageview sampling to do useful things for the community.
Wikipedia's individual articles are immensely dependent on readership
for their survival, stability, and improvement. It would be a shame to
continue to stall on this crucial issue.
As Jeremy writes, this is something which will be discussed now and through Hacking Days.
If you are interested please contribute te the pages he mentions, as well as
WP:Pageviews.
I and others who have taken part in this thread have ample time and
resources to solve this problem. I _refuse_ to let this issue die again.
-Erik