[Wikipedia-l] Mediametry survey (was )Re: Language versions' popularity vs. number of articles...)

[Brion Vibber]

Miguel Chaves wrote:
> Hi, I wonder if wikipedia only relies on this sort of external statistics
> (like Alexa) to gather information about visits to the sites.
> Aren't there statistcs collected on wikipedia servers itself? This would be
> more useful and reliable.

Not at this time. At our traffic level, web server logs are too large to handle
comfortably without a dedicated infrastructure, and we've been forced to simply
disable them until something easier to handle gets set up.

(If we were an ad-supported site, such statistics would be much much more
important and we'd have put in the time and money for it a lot sooner.)

> BTW, if we want to know the popularity of an specific article (not a
> specific wikipedia), is there a tool for that?

Not really, sorry.

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)

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