On 11/22/07, bawolff bawolff+wn@gmail.com wrote:
Actually the reader stats are Leon's (from de) wikicharts tool.
I was thinking that this is possibility, but I was a little bit confused. It is not possible to count how many people visited any WM project because there are a number of proxies all over the world. Actually, when anyone of us is seeing some page, they are using a proxy almost for sure. Only when someone click on edit, they access to "real" WM servers.
So, Leon's statistics (for en.wn: [1]) are approximations of number of accesses to the pages. You may see +- variable. Statistics are better if it is about a page with more frequent traffic.
I may use Leon's statistics to generate some other view on Wikinews, but there is a question what is a difference between Leon's statistics and derivate statistics. If there are some good reason for doing that, there are no problem to make it :)
I'm glad we have this bot, the old (similiar) statistics were not being updated very regurally. As a side note, please put a note up on [[WN:BOT]] before starting operations
My statistics are based on the old method. Actually, I tried to make a "verbatim copy" of them (except "grand total", there is no need for another section).
I was thinking about adding bot to the list, but I forgot it today. I'll do it now.
[1] - http://hemlock.knams.wikimedia.org/~leon/stats/wikicharts/index.php?lang=en&...