Here are some statistics for special pages and actions taken from today's real user data. This should help with ergonomic design for the user interface.
I will be able to re-run these tests later in the week, when we have more data.
Observations: * pages are opened for edit roughly 5 times as often as their edits are submitted * some of the CamelCase special pages listed do not actually exist on the new server: they are presumably links referenced on the old server main page being given to the new server.
Here are some ordinary pages for comparison:
Main Page (2320 views) Biographical Listing/A (152 views) Current events (105 views)
In descending order of frequency, the special pages and actions are:
1241 action=edit 760 Special:Recentchanges 293 Special:Randompage 263 action=history 240 action=submit 141 Special:Preferences 110 Special:Userlogin 83 Special:Whatlinkshere 73 Special:Specialpages 69 Special:Statistics 60 Special:Imagelist 54 Special:Watchlist 48 Special:Contributions 30 Special:Wantedpages 28 action=print 27 Special:Recentchangeslinked 27 Special:Allpages 26 Special:Upload 26 Special:Lonelypages 19 Special:Popularpages 15 action=watch 12 Special:Ipblocklist 11 Special:Listusers 10 Special:Unusedimages 8 Special:Newpages 7 action=view 7 action=delete 7 Special:Userlogout 7 Special:Longpages 4 Special:Shortpages 3 Special:RecentChanges 3 Special:AllPages 2 action=unwatch 2 Special:Movepage 1 Special:UserLogin 1 Special:Recentchanges/ 1 Special:RandomPage/ 1 Special:RandomPage 1 Special:NewPages/ 1 Special:AllPages/
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