The statistics page for Wikipedia says "There have been a total of
2445066 page views, and 49482 page edits since the software was
upgraded (July 20, 2002)."
Will these counters be reset the next time the software is upgraded?
Or will they ever be reset or reduced? What do we really learn from
these numbers? Could they be more useful if calculated differently?
Once the new software is launched for all languages, can we compare
the German Wikipedia against the Polish, using these numbers?
In addition to the accumulated value, I think it would be useful to
have a value that indicates the current rate of activity, either by
beginning a new counter each month (or week), or by having a decaying
average (i.e. an accumulated value filtered through a hi-pass filter).
Either way, it should use the same definition for different sites, so
we can compare values.
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