Александр Сигачёв wrote:
An approximate and inaccurate pageview counter is better than none.
We have something like this in Russian Wikipedia. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Ruwiki_pgcounter
That's clever. I can think of a couple of minor improvements, but the obvious one, if this was implemented on the English Wikipedia, would be to only insert the link randomly on, say, one page in 100.
Of course, the sample will be biased since the trick only works with Javascript, but for many statistical purposes that is acceptable.