[Foundation-l] Database dumps and statistics

[Brion Vibber]

Sage Ross wrote:
> The Foundation needs to put a higher priority on numerical metrics,
> and the database dumps from which they are derived.

This is fact, and we'll do what we can over the coming few months. See
my recent blog post and follow up in wikitech-l if you're interested and
helping.

> The fact that the study above relied on specially-requested log data
> to calculate per-page view rates is even more troubling; article hit
> counters are desperately needed.

Yep! See recent discussion in wikitech-l.

-- brion vibber (brion @ wikimedia.org)