On 02/14/2013 02:56 AM, Erik Zachte wrote:
Lars,
I think you are overdoing it.
The reports are not nonsense, but have over time become more inaccurate than some other
stats we present.
Actually if the reports would have mentioned 'pages served' rather than 'page
views' they still would be spot on.
Noooo, nobody in the web business counts bot accesses.
Pages, page views, are human page views. You need
to filter out bots, API calls, and non-page fetches.
The main Wikistats, counting articles and users is
very accurate, and these nonsense page view stats
give Wikistats a bad name. Plus they are used by all the
GLAM projects to show museums how much people view
pictures from their museum, and now that's all fake and
exaggeration. It's 2-3 years wasted. Please don't waste
any more years or months of our time. We now have
to go back to museums and apologize.
The stats still show a breakdown per language,
No, that's exactly what fails. Wikistats indicates that
Wiktionary has more page views than Wikisource, and
believed this, and it surprised me, but now I understand
that we are counting bots that follow red links, and that
is a sport Wiktionary will always win. Humans tend to
read Wikisource, but bots are drawn to spend time in
the link mazes of Wiktionary.
and relative growth, assuming bot activity is more or
less consistent from one month to another (of course not over longer periods).
Last quote I got (in April?) is that overall 40% of traffic is bot related. That could be
more now.
And it's far more for smaller projects, and for link-intensive
Wiktionary, and for those languages of Wikipedia that
create articles by bots, such as Dutch, Swedish, Vietnamese
and Volapük.
This bot-created article about a spider "has been viewed 12
times in the last 30 days", but only by bots?
http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acantheis_variatus
http://stats.grok.se/nl/latest/Acantheis_variatus
Bots creating articles and bots reading them, what a joke!
And they are creating articles about spiders!
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Lars Aronsson (lars(a)aronsson.se)
Aronsson Datateknik -
http://aronsson.se