[WikiEN-l] hit counts on articles/pages

[Ray Saintonge]

Thomas Dalton wrote:

>On 22/05/07, ikiroid <ikiroid at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>The stats of the userspace are particularly interesting:
>>
>>http://tools.wikimedia.de/~leon/stats/wikicharts/index.php?lang=en&wiki=enwiki&ns=User&limit=100&month=05%2F2007&mode=view
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>>Jimbo's page is #63....I'd expect it to be much higher...
>>
>>And there are other weird things too--a banned user is at #1, empty IP pages
>>show up in the top 25, and my signature page ended up in there too (?)
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>Look at the margins of error. Only the top 13 have less than +/- 100%,
>and everything from 13 down has the same number of hits. I would guess
>that number is what you get when a single hit goes through to the
>counter. In other words, user pages aren't viewed often enough for the
>sample size to be sufficient to draw meaningful statistics.
>
Even [[User:Jesus Christ]] has a higher rating than Jimbo.  Who knows 
what the result would be if his supporters started visiting that page 
more often? ;-)

Ec