Template talk:Xreadership
Promising template!
editI think this template looks good and, if further developed, could become a nifty replacement for {{Annual readership}}.
In this TfD, the majority voted to keep the Annual readership template, but to 'noinclude' it, i.e. making it invisible on the talk pages that transclude it. However, the majority of people did seem to think that Annual readership was useful if the Graph extension is ever coming back.
{{Xreadership}} is currently used on 80 talk pages. For example:
Talk:SpongeBob SquarePants (character) and Talk:SpongeBob SquarePants (character)/pageviews.
One thing that would greatly increase this template's usability is to have a Day/Month switch, so that you can not only see the daily page views, but also the monthly page views.
The biggest challenge I think would be to have a bot that regularly updates the "/pageviews" subpages. The Annual readership graph was used on 53,510 pages before it was turned off. So if a bot would update the logs weekly, it would have to make tens of thousands of edits a week.
According to the {{NUMBEROFARTICLES}} magic word, the total number of articles currently stands on 6,883,482 (nine days ago, it was in fact 6,879,730 articles, so the number is still growing). If *all* those talk pages had {{Xreadership}}, then the bot would literally have to make millions of edits per week, i.e. multiple edits per second. In that case, it would be more feasible if the logs were updated monthly instead of weekly. Cheers, Manifestation (talk) 15:11, 16 September 2024 (UTC)
Hairline font accessibility
editThe hairline fonts are hard to read on my screen. While I can't find any prohibition in MOS:SMALL, they go against MOS:FONTFAMILY or its spirit. I'm not sure if they have meaning or are just decorative, as its use for "(experimental)" seems arbitrary. The original pageviews.wmcloud doesn't use them, and neither does any other professional encyclopedia. I will remove them for these reasons. 174.89.12.36 (talk) 21:29, 18 September 2024 (UTC)
- There is also the accessibility problem of the bar numbers being only 2.91 contrast. #737373 is the brightest that meets the WCAG. 174.89.12.36 (talk) 21:51, 18 September 2024 (UTC)