[Wikipedia-l] Popularity counter is reset

[bderksen]

>===== Original Message From "Krzysztof P. Jasiutowicz" <kpj at kki.net.pl> =====
>Hello all,
>
>The popularity counter starts from 0 after the move.
>Is this the right thing to do ?
>
>What do you think ?

Personally, I think the popularity counters should be reset to 0 on a regular 
basis. Otherwise the results are permanently skewed to favor older popular 
pages over newer ones, pages that have remained where they are over ones which 
have been recently moved, etc. A counter that never resets is only fair for an 
encyclopedia that never changes its contents, IMO.