On 12/14/05, Rowan Collins rowan.collins@gmail.com wrote:
Meanwhile, I think a version of this may actually *already be implemented* in the software, but switched off on Wikimedia sites, probably for performance reasons. See http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=727 and http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3128
Consider running a query on a local installation: (http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_queries) or running a query at http://www.wikisign.org/ (although this uses slightly out of date dumps), and then posting the results to somewhere like [[Wikipedia:Most watched pages]] or [[Wikipedia:Least watched pages]].
Doing it live would be very resource intensive, this way would not use the wikimedia servers at all, and would be reasonably accurate (depending on the frequency of updates).
-- Stephen Bain stephen.bain@gmail.com