Wikipedia talk:Statistics/Archive 1

message: excluding Main Page, Current Events, Special pages, admin pages
# 100px-Beowulf.firstpage.jpeg - does anyone know why??
#*appears to be empty, or am I missing something? --Phil | Talk 16:42, Apr 1, 2004 (UTC)
#:::I think that was a conflation of a URL and an image link; I've corrected it, but the actual image page is :Image:Beowulf.firstpage.jpeg. Marnanel 17:04, Apr 1, 2004 (UTC)
#*My suspicion is that somebody has been leeching this - including it inline in something other than a Wikipedia article (a manuscript as a forum avatar?). A hunt through the logs for the referer on requests for it would soon confirm that, and tell us who the culprit is. Either that, or its a pretty weird bug in the log analyser. - IMSoP 12:06, 2 Apr 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  10 most popular items 

message: # wikipedia
# wiki
# the answer to life the universe and everything
# encyclopedia
# penthouse
# saddam hussein
# ahmed yassin
# sheikh ahmed yassin
# sexual intercourse
# free encyclopedia
More at http://en.wikipedia.org/stats/usage_200403.html .
:I'd just like to give the obligatory plug for the autoupdating web links I wrote:
*Current month's hits 
*Current month's webalizer 
*Autoupdating link to the mailing list 
:→Raul654 16:21, Apr 1, 2004 (UTC)
:It would be really good if we could change the header of each page so that it says $PAGENAME - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - BROWSER SPECIFIC TAG at the top toolbar instead of just $PAGENAME - Wikipedia - BROWSER SPECIFIC TAG... it would be nice not to have such a low google rank for "encyclopedia" - and this might help a notch. Pete/Pcb21 (talk) 16:27, 1 Apr 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't think this would be an improvement, i expect the opposite. Using just the title as the html title (without wikipedia) should increase our relevance for the searches mathching the title. No need to get a higher ranking for the search phrase 'wikipedia', there's nothing better than #1. Including 'Encyclopedia' in the title of the main page and/or in default keywords in the header of each page could help to improve the ranking for that search term though. A small skin hack could do this. -- Gabriel Wicke 13:33, 2 Apr 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Your more refined approach sounds good. A specialized hack for the main page sounds like really good because "Main Page - Wikipedia" is awful. Pete/Pcb21 (talk) 13:52, 2 Apr 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  10 most popular search terms 

message: *300,000 articles??
*400,000 articles??
*500,000 articles??
*600,000 articles??
*700,000 articles??
*800,000 articles??
*900,000 articles??
A million articles??
66.245.104.154 02:09, 10 Apr 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  When will Wikipedia reach?? 

message: The July stats are in (see http://wikimedia.org/stats/en.wikipedia.org/usage_200407.html ) and they make some interesting reading...
July was the English Wikipedia's busiest month ever (I think), with:
* 9,439,508 hits
* 8,208,960 files were downloaded
* 5,672,051 pages were served 
* 316,295 visits (not clear if this refers to unique visitors or just page impressions)
* 2,083,869,414 Kb of data was downloaded
Excluding project and special pages (and the Main Page), the 10 most requested articles were:
# Nick Berg (Iraq hostage)
# John Kerry (new entry)
# Kim Sun-il (Iraq hostage) 
# OS-tan (deeply bizarre; a must-read) (new entry)
# List of sex positions
# United States
# Crushing by elephant (yay, go elephants! ;-)
# Bobby Fischer (former chess champion) (new entry)
# Wikipedia
# Wiki
For comparison, the 10 most requested for June were:
# Paul Johnson (hostage)
# Kim Sun-il
# Paul Marshall Johnson, Jr.
# Beheading
# Decapitation
# Redmond, Washington
# Goatse.cx
# SpaceShipOne
# Wikipedia
# United States
The top 10 search terms for July were:
# wikipedia
# wiki 
# nick berg 
# cristiano ronaldo 
# teresa heinz kerry 
# encyclopedia 
# beheading 
# harry potter and the half blood prince 
# marlon brando 
# ken jennings 
From this, it looks pretty clear that Wikipedia is being heavily used as a resource for major ongoing news events, particularly Iraq. -- ChrisO 16:37, 2 Aug 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Wikipedia's headline stats for July 2004

message: I've been keeping an eye on Combined live stats, and none of the graphs there seem to reflect the overall "slowness" I experience when browsing or editing. The second one, which deals with server response time, would seem in theory to reflect the overall experienced "slowness", but it doesn't seem to. Is there another stat that would be more meaningful for what I'm trying to look at? P.Riis 21:24, 31 Aug 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Editing experience 

message: Is there away to find the article that have the fewest or no links to them? Falphin 20:20, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Orphaned pages Nroose 12:46, 26 Jun 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: least links

message: It appears that the Stats have not been updated in over a month (since May 16th).  Why is that? Nroose 12:48, 26 Jun 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Stats are over a month old 

message: The special page for statistics includes this page [ttp://en.wikipedia.org/wikistats/EN/Sitemap.htm] which hasn't been updated since 16 May as a page that updates automatically. Could someone with the authority to do so sort this out please? Osomec 19:35, 3 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Major error on special page

message: See: User:JIP/User statistics. — JIP | Talk 11:54, 15 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  User statistics as of September 15, 2005 

message: Why my favorite Kate's Tools stopped working? Vald 10:10, 14 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Edit count

message: The new link to wikiside.com is to an independent site that carries ads and I don't think the stats look correct or up to date anyway. I'm thinking of removing it. Any comments. Calsicol 16:53, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Dubious link

message: How many users have actually made an edit this month? Probably like 3% are real users.Voice of AllT|@|ESP 02:54, 13 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Compare to the number of those who have checked their watchlist over the same time period. Creating an account is the only way to get a portable watchlist. --James S. 17:51, 21 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Active users