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hey

hey i'm a bit confused about how you can change things without it being classed at vandalism...help me please? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Missedwardcullen (talk • contribs) 19:29, 9 December 2009 (UTC)

also....

can i change my username? Missedwardcullen (talk) 19:37, 9 December 2009 (UTC)

Help I want to do something I haven't done before

Hello

I want to add a picture to an info box. The picture is on my computer and I want it to transfer it to Wikipedia.

Throughgrittedteeth

Throughgrittedteeth (talk) 17:37, 6 December 2009 (UTC)

Help:Images may be of some assistance, have you checked it out? henrik•talk 18:01, 6 December 2009 (UTC)

Thank you. I've managed now. I hope its OK. Throughgrittedteeth (talk) 16:24, 10 December 2009 (UTC)

Where can I find the wikipedia article on traffic statistics

I love the wikipedia page statistics tool, but cannot always find it. I see references to an article about it on this talk page, but I cannot find the article. Can someone please provide a link. TIA Ottawahitech (talk) 20:54, 9 December 2009 (UTC)

stats.grok.se. If you look at the history tab of any page, there's a link ("Page view statistics") to the statistics page from there too. henrik•talk 21:10, 9 December 2009 (UTC)

Thanks - when I saw the word "article" I was looking for text, I did not realize this was the same page that led me to this talk page :-)

btw I love this statistics page - any chance of seeing something similar developed for a yearly (as opposed to a monthly) view? Ottawahitech (talk) 04:49, 11 December 2009 (UTC)

WP article hit counter

Well done for doing this; I find it very interesting.86.46.223.94 (talk) 13:46, 11 December 2009 (UTC)

Wikipedia article traffic statistics

Hi Henrik, quick question. Is there any way to generate a list for the most viewed articles in Wikipedia that is current? I have followed the link http://stats.grok.se/en/top but it seems to only generate data for 2008/08, not the current date or month. Sorry for the simple question, I am relatively new to Wikipedia editing. Thanks Antarctic-adventurer (talk) 15:32, 9 December 2009 (UTC)

Yep, I lost the script to generate the top pages - one of these days I'll rewrite it :) henrik•talk 23:32, 11 December 2009 (UTC)

My topic ban?

Hi Henrik, can you let me know when/whether I'm truly free to edit the WTC article? (See this thread to see why I ask.) I don't mind waiting. I had been planning to wait until April, after all. But if my trial period is going to demonstrate anything, I'm going to have actually do something before Jan 8, right?--Thomas B (talk) 20:25, 10 December 2009 (UTC)

Unless and until you're notified otherwise, the terms of the suspension are unchanged.

A personal note of reflection though: you could most likely make your editing experience here much easier for yourself, and probably find it more enjoyable, if you would consider expanding your interest just slightly beyond the WTC and 9/11 articles. henrik•talk 21:10, 11 December 2009 (UTC)

Thanks. And I appreciate your advice. As Mongo rightly points out, though, I'm stubborn about this. I don't want to have some generalized "street cred" to throw around. I just want to make warranted edits. If it is really true that I would have been "allowed" to do exactly and just the things I did do on the 9/11 articles if only I had also contributed to other parts of Wikipedia, well, then, I think being indefinitely topic-banned for them is absurd. Absurdity, to be sure, is not unheard of at Wikipedia. ;-) And in this case it may also explain something. I think the real barrier to progress on the articles I had been working on was the presence of people who had credibility unrelated to their knowledge of the subject and sensitivity for the issues. So people like me got forced out. And the article has made no significant progress toward GA since. So it goes.--Thomas B (talk) 22:30, 11 December 2009 (UTC)

I imagined there was a fair bit of that involved, yeah. Quite understandable. If you look at it from my point of view for a bit: the 9/11 pages, as well as various nationalist, ethnic and religious conflict areas - basically any area mirroring a real life conflict - are constantly subject to degradation from users who are desperate to slant them to their point of view. And telling the difference between a well-meaning editor and a skilled troll is not an easy task. Sometimes we err on the wrong side. Showing that you care about other articles than just controversial topics has become a useful test for telling the type of users apart. Very few POV-pushers are willing to spend the time to do anything else rather than editing their own area of interest. Absurd? Perhaps. I'm obviously not claiming it to be a perfect, or even good, scheme: but we have yet to come up with a significantly better one. If there was no moderation, all except the angriest users who scream the loudest would soon be driven away. henrik•talk 23:31, 11 December 2009 (UTC)

I understand. Thanks again for taking a look. And if you do find some more straightforward way of justifying my ban (i.e., in terms of my actual behavior not my alleged motive), please let me know.--Thomas B (talk) 13:08, 12 December 2009 (UTC)

I agree

I agree with Chassain. Too bad...And no explanation. Best regards. IP, 12 December 2009 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.88.219.92 (talk) 07:48, 12 December 2009 (UTC)

hit counting (days lost)

In September a whole week of data (meaning the stats of hit counting for a given day, a given page) was lost. In October 3 days were lost, in November 2 days were lost. It decreases !!!! :-) It seems that wednesday 9 and thursday 10 of December are going to be lost, perhaps Friday too ... Before September there had been no losses of data for years. What did happen ???

I loved to compare the readership after a drastic change and before the change, and now I have to make additional computations to compare the readership of one month where data have been lost to another month where data are complete ... Too bad ... :-( --Chassain (talk) 00:19, 12 December 2009 (UTC)

I'm looking into it; seems there's a bug in my stats collection script. henrik•talk 11:40, 12 December 2009 (UTC)

thanks a lot !!--Chassain (talk) 13:47, 12 December 2009 (UTC)

Alright, found and fixed a problem. The 10th should have data now and processing of the 11th is running. henrik•talk 14:17, 12 December 2009 (UTC)

Thanks ! December 9 is lost, but 10 and and 11 are recovered, seemingly (I test it on fr:Loi normale that has 1 000 visits a day on a regular basis). I guess this must be tedious for you, so thanks for volunteering. If one writes a book or gives talks on a topic, he has some feedback on the quality of transmission of knowledge, but some fuzzy feedback. These statistics are a crystal clear feedback.--Chassain (talk) 15:53, 12 December 2009 (UTC)

I've rerun all of December, and all of fr:Loi normale has data now, so it's hopefully fixed. Yeah, seeing that there are actually readers to the articles we write is pretty motivating for me too. That's the reason I started the stats thing in the beginning :) henrik•talk 08:24, 13 December 2009 (UTC)

That seem to solve the problem for English. In Norwegian (bokmål) 7th, 8th and 9th of Dec is still lacking. Will those three days get their data ? Thank you for a splendid statistics tool! Helge Høifødt (talk) 14:42, 12 December 2009 (UTC)

Hopefully fixed, see above. henrik•talk 08:24, 13 December 2009 (UTC)

Commons page traffic

Hi! I love your tool. I just noticed, however, that when you look at anything from Commons, it malforms the link page to the page you're looking up, and it doesn't have the correct URL listed on the page. See this for example. It says (and points) to commons.m.wikipedia.org, when it is really commons.wikimedia.org. Just wanted to let you know. :-) Killiondude (talk) 07:11, 14 December 2009 (UTC)

I just added it to the mediawiki page on Commons, so people there can enjoy it as well. :-) Killiondude (talk) 07:19, 14 December 2009 (UTC)

Ah, very cool. I'll see what I can do about that URL (it's also broken for all the other non-pedia sites). henrik•talk 07:53, 14 December 2009 (UTC)

Topic ban of Thomas Basboll

I have commented as linked here regarding the request by Thomas Basboll to be unbanned from editing 9/11 related articles. The discussion was only ongoing for a day before his ban was "lifted"...I suggest if possible we have further discussion regarding this matter before we remove his ban. Thanks.--MONGO 03:53, 9 December 2009 (UTC)

The ban has not been lifted, it's been suspended for a month to evaluate what happens. henrik•talk 06:33, 9 December 2009 (UTC)

I responded to your query at my talkpage....--MONGO 01:12, 17 December 2009 (UTC)

And Wikibooks?

I see that you have only statistics for Wikipedia. What about Wikibooks? Previously there were statistics at http://wikistics.falsikon.de/latest/wikibooks/nl/ (for the Dutch version), but this site seems to have stopped in August. Are there other places were I can find statistics about Wikibooks? --Huibc (talk) 09:36, 15 December 2009 (UTC)

• Henrik is there any chance of getting the page stats to Wikiquote pages?--Oracleofottawa (talk) 06:13, 16 December 2009 (UTC)

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wiki pageviews stats (dammit.lt)

Hi Henrik,

I'd like to use these: http://dammit.lt/wikistats/ (btw, great job!)

I'm not sure the format is described anywhere... there are 4 columns in these files. second one seems to be the title page. First look like some 2-letter identifier that could be folders, to avoid dumping so many files on a single folder.

The other two, I'm not so sure. Last one looks like the access stats...

Also, are wiki articles uniquely identified by their title, or is there a better ID out there? Maybe the mysql dumps contain a unique key that people use?

Could you help?

Thanks!

ps: feel free to contact me at quesada@gmail.com

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Hi Jose - a few replies.

• The format of these files are as follows: <project> <page name> <access count number> <transfer size in bytes>
• Page title uniquely identifies a page (no two pages can have the same title). Note that redirects exist however, soft links from one title to another.

henrik•talk 13:17, 17 December 2009 (UTC)

Page view statistics

BRAVO for this GREAT new feature! I don't know when you created it, but I just noticed it now. It would be even greater if we can get the cumulative count since the first upload of the file, more useful than the daily or monthly count. And this number should be displayed on the description page, in the File History section underneath Licensing. Thank you very much. Tango7174 (talk) 15:21, 21 December 2009 (UTC).

Page stats

Hey there. I had a rather large suggestion to make for your page view statistics tool. The current system works on for finding the number of times a specific link has been used. Instead, this should account for the number of times the article article has been viewed, this means including redirects for the page stats. Is this possible? It would make the stat tool much much more accurate if this was incorporated. Get back to me on my talk page when you get a chance. Happy edits and holidays, GroundZ3R0 002 (talk) 07:12, 21 December 2009 (UTC)

Sir: I cannot manage very well with this. The only thing I want to say is that it is a pity that a Enciclopedia made by people and for the people have problems as to delete entrances for considerations I believe not accurate. Any, poet, painter, writer, music, artist of any kind must have space in a ciber Enciclopedia. It is most useful and perfect to find information. I am afraid that I do not do it well but I do not know how to say it to make me understand. Thank you. Daniel. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.216.160.87 (talk) 18:36, 21 December 2009 (UTC)

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Pageview stats missing for July 08

I'm not sure if you know about this already, but the site doesn't have data from July 13, 2008 to the end of the month. For example, see http://stats.grok.se/en/200807/Michael%20Jackson (although you'll see the same for any article). Great site, by the way; my bot's been using it to scrape pageviews. Shubinator (talk) 14:55, 24 December 2009 (UTC)

Merry Christmas

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copy of deleted: tbamud

Henrik, thanks for helping out those new to Wikipedia. My article was deleted and I would greatly appreciate a copy and advice.

Unfortunately someone created the tbaMUD article 2 years ago and did it improperly so it was deleted (as it should have been). I decided to recreate it and mirrored it off exsting Wiki entries of similar MUD codebases CircleMUD DikuMUD etc. It was immediately deleted saying it was a recreation of something that was already deleted.... This after spending several hours writing and referencing it properly. Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, and happy holidays.

Nate —Preceding unsigned comment added by Nathan Winters (talk • contribs) 16:30, 27 December 2009 (UTC)

SoWhy has helped already, I see. :) henrik•talk 19:17, 29 December 2009 (UTC)

Data archives

Hello

Is it possible to obtain all raw historical data from Wikistats?

That is, the data used to generate http://stats.grok.se/

The archive appears to only include data for 3 months in 2009?

Thanks

Charles —Preceding unsigned comment added by 206.169.37.100 (talk) 02:17, 29 December 2009 (UTC)

sock-puppet

That IP editor in the article for the Battle of Thermopylae is a sock-puppet who keeps evading his bans and blocks. Can you do something about him? If you check his 3-4 previous IP they have all been banned for sock-puppetry of some guy Orijentolog who's banned. Simanos (talk) 18:35, 29 December 2009 (UTC)

It seems Nev1 and Dougweller are on the case already, and there hasn't been any activity for a over a week. If he returns, you can drop a note at their or mine talk. henrik•talk 19:15, 29 December 2009 (UTC)

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Brews ohare at AE

Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Enforcement#Brews ohare is getting out of hand. The only questions to be decided at AE, based on Brews' arbitration sanctions, are:

1. Is the article that Brews edited (indeed, created) physics-related, and therefore within his topic ban? (This is the only question that the request for enforcement raised.)
2. Was Brews' editing of the article and talk page discussion disruptive or tendentious? (Brews' detractors added this issue after the answer to the first question became so clear.)

The answer to both questions is, No. However, discussion has spiraled off in other directions. There is now a debate between pure mathematicians and applied mathematicians (those who use the math, such engineers and physicists) about the article's approach; the mathematicians actually disdain the use of sources, among other differences. And this has degenerated into name-calling and questioning one another's good faith and motives. David Tombe's arguments in Brews' support are not helping Brews or the process: Tombe was sanctioned in the same arbitration as Brews (which diminishes his credibility) and his manner is combative. Could you please step in to take control of this melee? Thank you.—Finell 05:24, 30 December 2009 (UTC)

Right after I posted this here, I realized that I had no way of knowing when you might see it. Therefore, I made the same request (not just directed to you) at Wikipedia talk:Arbitration/Requests#Brews ohare at AE.—Finell 05:38, 30 December 2009 (UTC)

Well, that's about par for the course. AE requests getting out of hand is more the rule than the exception. :-) henrik•talk 10:08, 30 December 2009 (UTC)

Thanks.—Finell 17:15, 30 December 2009 (UTC)

Barnstar!

		The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
		For your quick and preemptive action on the morning of 31 December, the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand and Nine, I award you this barnstar. -Jeremy (v^_^v Stop... at a WHAMMY!!) 11:44, 31 December 2009 (UTC)

yay! Thank you. :) henrik•talk 11:55, 31 December 2009 (UTC)

Thank you

Your logic and courtesy as shown here (thanks for that) are well appreciated. And even though I myself felt the survival of the article was slim (encouraging the author to seek userfication even as I was working to improve it), I was drawn into the article's defense primarily over the responses and actions of one of the disussion's participants toward the newcomer. While one might disagree with another's opinion, the injudicious striking out of entire swaths of another's comments as was done here and again here is entirely unacceptable... and approaches actionable. I hope your your caution toward civility here will be accepted in the good faith in which it was intended and not fall of deaf ears. I am wonder though if it would it be appropriate, even though the discussion is closed, to ask that the first set of improperly struck comments [1] be also unstruck? I failed to do undo that damage before the discussion was closed, and would hate it if anyone visiting the discussion in the future might see the strike-through and then themselves conclude that censorship of another's polite and good faith comments is allowable. Again, thank you and best regards, Schmidt, ^{MICHAEL Q.} 14:29, 31 December 2009 (UTC)

I didn't notice that he did it twice (probably a good thing for him) - as you said, that is entirely unacceptable, and I just left another message saying so. It seems he's a bit overly enthusiastic about enforcing our rules. (I think that's not an uncommon trait among young people who's just learnt our myriad of rules). Hopefully he can be persuaded to calm down a bit. I reverted the strike out on the afd, but it would have been perfectly fine if you'd done it yourself too. henrik•talk 15:52, 31 December 2009 (UTC)

		The Barnstar of Diplomacy
		For the above-listed effforts toward encouraging peace and community, I am honored to award you this Barnstar of Diplomacy. Schmidt, MICHAEL Q. 14:32, 31 December 2009 (UTC)

Oh, shiny! Two barnstars in one day? The Gods must be pleased. :) henrik•talk 15:52, 31 December 2009 (UTC)

Well, if they're not, your courtesy toward a newcomer was definitely appreciated by me. Happy New Year, Schmidt, ^{MICHAEL Q.} 21:13, 31 December 2009 (UTC)

Well, thanks from me as well. I saw the strikethrough, but the cause didn't occur to me. I hope I was civil enough... NativeForeigner ^Talk/_Contribs 06:57, 1 January 2010 (UTC)

Your help with Guitaret article

Hi Henrik Thanks for you help on the Guitaret article. Unfortunately MisterWiki pretty much ignored you and deleted it all again. Now it's locked, so I don't know what to do next. I replied to you on my page, but I have no idea how this all works, so I am replying here as well. I was going ot make a few more pages on related matters, but right now I really have no interest in writing pages just so a schoolboy on the other side of the planet can decide they are not interesting and delete them. And clues what I should do? DiarmuidPigott (talk) 14:24, 1 January 2010 (UTC)

Wikipedia article traffic statistics

Are you the one who authored this?

If so good job. I hope it continues and you work any problems out of the BETA. Dr CareBear (talk) 23:12, 1 January 2010 (UTC)

Strange Java

Hi, I recently added a talk page message and it seems to have added an odd piece of javascript that references your account. Do you have any idea why this might be? Here's the diff [2]--Torchwood Who? (talk) 02:48, 2 January 2010 (UTC)

Huh? I have no idea why that would show up there. Are you using any of my scripts, or is some other tool referencing that file? henrik•talk 12:18, 2 January 2010 (UTC)

afc-helper

A User on the helpdesk reported [3]. This is caused by the usage of document.write() in scripts to load other scripts. This is problematic, because document.write() writes to an arbitrary position. It should never be used in scripts that are not inline scripts. I made this change to solve that problem. This solved the issue for the user. —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 15:08, 2 January 2010 (UTC)

Aha! Many thanks! The JS I wrote here has been sadly neglected, I was about to delete it entirely. :) henrik•talk 17:01, 2 January 2010 (UTC)

My topic ban, again

Hi Henrik, Happy New Year! As you suggested, I posted a request to evaluate the results of your suspension of the topic ban at AE, but Roger Davies aksed me to post it under ArbCom amendments. It can be found here. Thanks again for your help.--Thomas B (talk) 11:30, 4 January 2010 (UTC)

stats.grok.se

Your article traffic stats program is brilliant, but it needs a tiny update. 2010 isn't on the drop-down list of months yet and, although the page opens up with the data for this month, the user cannot get back to that information having chosen a different month. --Stemonitis (talk) 09:10, 4 January 2010 (UTC)

Updated! henrik•talk 10:50, 6 January 2010 (UTC)

Appeal

I have filed an appeal: [4]. Offliner (talk) 19:48, 4 January 2010 (UTC)

Page view statistics in machine readable format

Hi. Would it be possible to offer the page view statistics in some easily machine readable format like JSON or YAML or XML? I got a request to integrate the data in some related tool and would rather avoid having to parse the HTML code (I take it you are using XHTML which is kinda close to XML but still quite a bit removed from a dedicated format). Thanks. 94.223.201.93 (talk) 03:28, 5 January 2010 (UTC)

Sure, just prepend /json/ to the URL, like this: http://stats.grok.se/json/en/200910/Michael_Jackson henrik•talk 10:49, 6 January 2010 (UTC)

2010

Hi, dear Henrik, what's up with traffic tester in 2010?. Regards, peter, named --77.22.23.214 (talk) 07:17, 6 January 2010 (UTC) - sorry, not logged in: here Emeritus in dewiki - and love and peace to you

Updated the dropdown with the new url! henrik•talk 10:51, 6 January 2010 (UTC)

Statistic

Hi. Where I can find a new statistic-site for this year? Thanks for answer.--Tanne Tannström (talk) 08:53, 5 January 2010 (UTC)

Updated! henrik•talk 10:50, 6 January 2010 (UTC)

Well done. Salutations from swedish-pommern. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Tanne Tannström (talk • contribs) 09:35, 7 January 2010 (UTC)

Reply...

... is on my talk page. And you never need to apologize for butting in with a reasoned opinion.--Tznkai (talk) 17:20, 6 January 2010 (UTC)

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Present!

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		For swift and decisive action in making a crucial last minute update of the DYK feature of Mary Rose to improve the impact of the Mary Rose Trust image donation. Peter Isotalo 22:42, 4 January 2010 (UTC)

Wow! Tack! henrik•talk 15:34, 7 January 2010 (UTC)

Adding page view statistics to Wikipedia

1. Sir, is there any Wiki tool that I can add to my page(s) so that I can know/track the number of page views that an article, template, etc. receives? Jlhcpa (talk) 01:25, 7 January 2010 (UTC)

2. Is there any way for me to change the Wiki reference from IP addresses to my username? I have often inadvertently made edits without logging in, and the result is the edit is logged under my IP address and not under my username. I am the only person who has edited Wiki from this IP address. can I merge the IP address out of existence for past activity and when/if it occurs in the future? Jlhcpa (talk) 21:09, 7 January 2010 (UTC)

HELP!

Hi, I don't know if I am emailing the right person, wikipedia gave a huge list of administrators that I should contact... I was trying to create a page for Klaus Thymann, a noted photographer and filmmaker who has won many awards. The page was marked for speedy deletion, probably because I made alot of edits because I kept making typos. Can you please help me understand what the problem is and how to fix this? I don't know or even work for this person, I am just trying to create pages for photographers who don't have any information up. I have credible sources... —Preceding unsigned comment added by Afgintern (talk • contribs) 20:51, 7 January 2010 (UTC)

He asked me as well. His username gives away that although he doesn't "know or even work for this person" he works for an agency called AFG Management who represent Thymann; I see the article has been deleted five times including a version from User:Afgmanagement, who was blocked. I have told this one about COI and asked him to tell his boss that WP is not a free advertising service. JohnCD (talk) 22:42, 7 January 2010 (UTC)

BoingBoing loves stats.grok.se!

Wikibumps by Andrea James. "The elegant and useful Wikipedia article traffic statistics utility ..." - David Gerard (talk) 17:10, 8 January 2010 (UTC)

Ah, very cool! Thanks for letting me know. One of these days it might even meet our notability guidelines itself :-) henrik•talk 19:27, 8 January 2010 (UTC)

Notice for future reference

Thank you for your notice, I will be looking to make my points shorter. :) But, in any case, that other user was in the wrong. Writting in the whole article that eight people died, while listing nine fatalities, that's a major discrepancy that can confuse readers. I tried two or three compromises but his logic of stating eight people died but listing nine was beyond me. Like I said in my comments on the noticebord I am still up for a compromise even if he still wants to edit war. He wants to include the Afghan Arghawan? Fine by me, than say nine died. He wants to say eight died? Fine by me, but you cann't include Arghawan. You cann't say eight people died and than list nine fatalities. My compromise of saying Initial reports also stated that the security director of the base, an Afghan named Arghawan, was also killed in the attack.[5] However, in the days after the attack no mention of Arghawan among the casualties had been made.[6][7][8] Could I have your honest neutral opinion on this please?UrukHaiLoR (talk) 01:19, 9 January 2010 (UTC)

Suggestion For Your Page View Tool

I suggest that we can have the window/tool open, and when someone goes to the page, it changes\updates on real time.174.3.101.61 (talk) 04:33, 9 January 2010 (UTC)

Wikipedia article traffic statistics

Monthly and yearly displays would be great, too. It would be very interesting to see how social trends change over time ;-).Cinquero (talk) 03:54, 7 January 2010 (UTC)

I think it's very useful -- please don't let it disappear! Yes, I agree that totals by month within a year, and totals by year, would be useful too.

If I delete the article name from the URL, e.g. http://stats.grok.se/en/200912/ the page actually displays 200808 rather than the month stated in the URL. Any link clicked from that page therefore goes to the period 200808. Maybe that might be easy to fix. Keep up the good work! - Fayenatic (talk) 23:15, 10 January 2010 (UTC)

Page view statistics

Is there a list of the most non created, but viewed articles? (Red link articles).Smallman12q (talk) 18:13, 9 January 2010 (UTC)

...Smallman12q (talk) 17:27, 10 January 2010 (UTC)

I have some vague recollection of seeing something like that, but I can't find anything at the moment. henrik•talk 18:56, 10 January 2010 (UTC)

I thought I saw something too a while back...well if you find it, do let me know. I'd like to throw some of those highly viewed links into the red link recovery wikiproject.Smallman12q (talk) 20:22, 10 January 2010 (UTC)

SPI case (UrukHaiLoR)

Once again, thank you very much for your assistance! I also very much appreciated that you saw that it is nearly inconceivable that an editor with more than 6000 edits would just decide to vandalize the administrators' noticeboard.

I have filed a sockpuppet investigation against UrukHaiLoR (talk · contribs), the account very likely is a sockpuppet of Top Gun (talk · contribs), who has been blocked for "lying about sources, in addition to a whole host of other sins".  Cs32en  02:49, 10 January 2010 (UTC)

I see that User:Nick-D has blocked him now. Well, I'm glad not all DYKs are as difficult as this one. :) henrik•talk 09:06, 10 January 2010 (UTC)

AfDs

I think it would be preferrable to have a centralized discussion. There's about 30 instances of such articles. Is it too late to do that? What do you think? --Athenean (talk) 19:03, 10 January 2010 (UTC)

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Filtering out the author

Hi Henrik,
Now that you have traffic stats running even more smoothly now than it did in the past,
will it be possible at some point in the future to set exclusions on certain users? Like the page editors.
The traffic on my pages goes up 2 or 3 times on days when I edit them. I assume it's counting me over and over again.
Happy New Year, Varlaam (talk) 15:05, 14 January 2010 (UTC)

It would be useful, but it can't be done: there's absolutely no personally indefinable parts of the data: I see how many hits were made, but not who made them. Thus it's not possible to separate the author's views from the rest. henrik•talk 12:54, 15 January 2010 (UTC)

Do the stats include all edits and previews, or are they excluded because the URL is different? e.g. [9] - Fayenatic (talk) 13:08, 15 January 2010 (UTC)

Rangeblock/autoblock question

Hello Henrik, Longitudo (talk · contribs) seems to have got caught in an autoblock caused by your rangeblock on 114.183.0.0/17, a checkuser block against Sheynhertz-Unbayg. I'm not familiar with that case; could you perhaps have a look to see if this is genuine collateral damage, and what best to do about it? Thanks, -- Fut.Perf. ☼ 08:26, 16 January 2010 (UTC)

Hi Fut.Perf, I'm innocent of that block - I think you're after User:Hersfold? henrik•talk 08:43, 16 January 2010 (UTC)

Ooops. I think I keep mixing the two of you up all the time. Two admin account names should never be allowed to start with the same two letters, have the same number of syllables and share another consonant in the middle, you see. I think I'll have to propose desysoping or forcibly renaming at least one of you. ;-) Fut.Perf. ☼ 08:46, 16 January 2010 (UTC)

Hah. I had an earlier account which only differed by one letter from another guy's. To make matter worse, we were active in the same subject area and lived in the same city. Keeping that apart was near on impossible, so I could say I've already been forcibly renamed. That must mean that it's Hersfold's turn now. :) henrik•talk 09:08, 16 January 2010 (UTC)

Re Vercrumba and Martintg

Just to say, as a spectator, that it seems really weird that you're warning and blocking users for saying positive things about someone they've apparently been at war with. Surely such comments are a good thing, and greatly to be encouraged?? Please remember that Wikipedia is not a place where we enforce the letter of rules when it runs counter to logical sense.--Kotniski (talk) 11:53, 16 January 2010 (UTC)

First of all, thank you for posting that. I'll always encourage people to let me know when I'm (potentially) making a hash of things. And yes, I agree that it's not the most intuitive of restrictions. I'll try to expand my reasoning a bit.

Think of Wikipedia as a form of semi-formal debate. Usually the rules are fairly loose and free flowing and we don't bother with formalities. Usually we get along because we're all reasonable people. In certain problematic areas, they are stricter. In these highly contentious areas with lots of bad blood, you need to play strictly by the rules: this minimizes personal animosity as a factor, even people who disagree vehemently can usually move forward as long as there are reasonable rules of debate that keeps either side from sabotaging or filibustering the debate. Setting these ground rules is the job of arbcom. WP:AE has a very limited scope. The administrators who patrol it don't make value judgments or re-litigate the conflict, we're in a sense just trying to make sure that a certain minimum standard, as decided by arbcom, is followed.

This is one of our long term and ongoing problematic areas, and I believe that, in this case, the long term success of eliminating the problems actually is helped by enforcing the letter of the rules. It is true that positive steps, and reaching across the isle, should be encouraged. But perceived opponents commenting on others is frequently misunderstood, and often cited as underhanded provocation and can draw bad blood, whether they were well-intentioned or not. What I believe arbcom was trying to accomplish with that remedy was, for now, to remove personal interactions as a cause of trouble.

Again thank you for questioning me - please let me know if I can clarify anything further. henrik•talk 13:09, 16 January 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for the explanation. I don't entirely agree (in particular I think going as far as a block for this sort of technical infringement is a poor approach), but I guess it's something we can disagree about. Good luck with future efforts to keep the peace (which I appreciate can't be an easy task at all).--Kotniski (talk) 14:20, 16 January 2010 (UTC)

Mary Rose PR and such

Hej!

I've filed a PR Mary Rose and I plan to go for FAC as soon as that's closed. Now that the DYK is over and done with (x5 expansion already achieved :-), I think it might be good to try to cut down on the article size and if you have any suggestions in that department, I'd be very grateful.

Also, I'm working on updating Kronan, and while I'm at it I was thinking about taking battle of Öland, Svärdet and maybe a few other battle and ship articles of the late 17th century along for the ride. Would you be interested in doing some work on the Scanian War as well? It could make for a great featured topic in a not-so-distant future...

Peter ^Isotalo 19:46, 15 January 2010 (UTC)

Aha! Great! Mary Rose will make an excellent FA. :)

I did Dano-Swedish War (1658–1660) a while back on the previous round of Danish-Swedish fighting before The Scanian War, a lot of the sources I used would also cover the Scanian conflict, and hopefully also describe the Battle of Öland. It would indeed make a nice featured topic. I've been caught up with way too much adminish nonsense on wikipedia lately, it would be really fun to get back to some real writing. henrik•talk 22:03, 15 January 2010 (UTC)

Yeah! Why not leave admin work to the newly appointed for a while? It's always fun to do actual writing. Most of the articles on the various battles are prime targets for DYK expansion, btw. It's usually quite satisfying to get DYK credit and it serves as a pretty nice motivator.

I just set up a work page for Kronan over at sv.wiki and I thought I'd do the same for the battles of Öland and Bornholm in due time, which are both directly related to Kronan. I plan on making the expansion here as well so we could do something similar here if you're game. If nothing else we could at least pool our references. Would you like to start a sandbox up for us?

Peter ^Isotalo 19:56, 16 January 2010 (UTC)

Right on. I don't have any references for Kronan itself; any you would recommend? I could write the background and war context sections in the Swedish sandbox, however. One nice thing about Vasa was the fairly comprehensive reference works from the museum. Kampen om Skåne (ISBN 9185057053) might be a good overview of the war, and hopefully enough for the Öland battle itself along with Svenska slagfält (ISBN 9146210873). Do you know if there are any good English works, other than Frost's The Northern Wars?

Otherwise, I'll start cracking on the Kronan background, in the style of the same Vasa section, in your Swedish sandbox and work on one of the battle articles in English.

What's the plan language wise? Do you want to develop them in Swedish and then translate to English, do both languages simultaneously or something else? henrik•talk 21:25, 16 January 2010 (UTC)

If you don't mind, I think we'll save a lot of time by developing all of the basic content in Swedish on sv.wiki. Once we have the structure of the article and most of the content up, we can transfer it all to en.wiki subpages (or article space if we're not going to bother with DYKs). I can translate to English pretty fast once I get going. I can set up all the subpages for the naval battles and ships and you can do the same for the war and whatever land battles you feel are worth expanding on. If you want to do some military leaders as well, we could do a land/sea division for that as well. I can give you the skinny on naval and Kronan-refs in the språk of glory and hjältar. ;-)

Peter ^Isotalo 00:18, 17 January 2010 (UTC)

Year based statistics via stats.grok.se

Hey Henrik, at first: Thanks for your real good statistic tool, it's interesting to know, how many views "my articles" at the german wiki generate :) But i have one question: Is it possible to get article statistics for one hole year? The monthly based statistics are surely helpful, but i thought it perhaps could be possible to code an automatic summary of a years views on an article, so that i don't have to add the single months by hand :) With kind regards from Germany, [10] —Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.205.52.121 (talk) 22:48, 17 January 2010 (UTC)

Islam4UK

re your protect - there hasn't been vandalism. The frequent changes amount to a content dispute and mainly covered on the talk page. Leaky Caldron 21:25, 18 January 2010 (UTC)

It had nothing to do with the article itself. It was being targetted for vandalism from an external website, so I semi-protected it for a short while. Sorry for any confusion. henrik•talk 21:35, 18 January 2010 (UTC)

Rollback

Hey! Thanks a lot! I was really needing, but I was not sure if I could have it by now. I will read the guideline. Thanks again. Teles (talk) 09:12, 19 January 2010 (UTC)

Advice on creating an RfC?

I am contacting you because 1) on your user page you kindly offer to help new Wikipedia users and; 2) you are familiar with aspects of user:Cs32en's work on 9/11 conspiracy pages. I am attempting to create an RfC addressing user:Cs32en's conduct and I wonder if you might provide some advice?

I became involved in a dispute with user:Cs32en after I removed a template from a reference to a YouTube video in the article 9/11 Truth movement. The subsequent discussion can be largely seen here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Cs32en#Youtube_video_is_.2Areliable.2A_for_purposes_verifying_Chomsky_making_the_statement_referenced.2C_or_quoted.2C_in_article

My perception is that, in discussion with User:Cs32en, I was the subject of an attempted war of attrition, with a view toward making me go away, rather than an honest attempt at analyzing this issue(s) and the applicable Wikipedia policies. Where a person less stubborn and bloody minded than myself might have thrown their hands up in disgust, and gone off to find a better source of entertainment than Wikipedia editing, I elected to persist. It is my perception that User:Cs32en was not acting in good faith and simply wasted my time.

My goal, in filing a RfC, is to take a step in the direction of having such sanctions, as are necessary, be applied to User:Cs32en, so others will not have their time wasted nor be driven away, in disgust, from participation in Wikipedia.

Per [WP:RfC] I need to include, with the RfC, "evidence showing that two users tried and failed to resolve the same dispute". Is there a "canonical" Wikipedia source of arbitration requests etc. or do I need to Google for the appropriate references?

Do I need, pursuant to the RfC, to individually contact Wikipedia editors that have had disputes with User:Cs32en?

Do my comments & concerns, above, make sense? If they don't then please let me know -- don't worry, I have a thick skin. Thank you. Deicas (talk) 02:15, 15 January 2010 (UTC)

It looks to me that Cs32en has yielded the point and decided not to pursue the issue any more. In that case, I don't think a RfC would be useful. If the fundamental issue has been resolved, keeping the conflict going unnecessarily is usually considered bad form. Better to move on. henrik•talk 13:06, 15 January 2010 (UTC)

Thank you, I will take your advice, but I feel twinges of guilt thinking about Cs32en future war of attrition victims. Deicas (talk) 07:57, 19 January 2010 (UTC)

User:Cs32en is again disputing the video in question, cf. # 43 YouTube video on 9/11 Truth movement. I would like to create the RfC. May I again impose on you to have another look at my questions above? Deicas (talk) 18:14, 19 January 2010 (UTC)

What % of articles dominate what % of traffic?

Henrik -

Wondering if you could help determine if there's a disproportionately L-shape curve to wikipedia traffic patterns: IE, do a certain top x% of articles dominate an exponential portion of overall traffic (90%+)? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.199.159.17 (talk) 01:19, 19 January 2010 (UTC)

I wouldn't be surprised if it followed Zipf's law approximately. You can find the top 1000 articles on each WP on the stats site. As an additional data point: the 10000th most popular article on the English wikipedia got roughly 50000 views in December. In total, Wikipedia served about 5.2 billion pages in December, so the top page was about 3% of the total views. henrik•talk 19:28, 19 January 2010 (UTC)

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My topic ban, one last time

Hi Henrik, I've just been informed that ArbCom will not lift or otherwise limit my topic-ban (see this). I've written to Roger to ask what the point of the exercise was (i.e., first send me to AE for a "public sounding", then require that it be dealt with by the arbs, who then repeat the standing argument, namely, that SPAs should not work on controversial articles, which they could have told me in my original email). I am curious to hear your thoughts on it, and whether anything came of your attempt to understand why I was banned in the first place. In any case, thanks for taking the time.--Thomas B (talk) 08:48, 20 January 2010 (UTC)

Right, I'm also a bit questioning on why it was referred first to AE, then the result of the trial was taken to the arbs themselves, then at least one individual arb said it should have been at AE. And then it all petered out without anyone taking a clear decision. Seems somewhat confusing, if not downright Kafkaesque. (Well, that's bureaucracy for you)

But for better or worse, they've decided not to lift the ban, despite what I consider a successful trial. I can't override that decision. Your route, if you're still interested in writing is pretty clear however: We have over 3 million articles here, surely there must be something sufficiently interesting that you can spend a little bit of time writing about it? As far as I can see, everyone pretty much agrees that if you'd be willing to branch out, just a little bit, you'd have very good chances of finally lifting this. henrik•talk 10:39, 20 January 2010 (UTC)

Yes, that's the conclusion I'm drawing as I go forward. I'm going to have to take a break before doing anything, though, and think about what's happened. Editing here is most fun when it's intrinsically motivated. I'm not going to go to work on other articles with the extrinsic motive of getting my ban lifted. By the time I stop caring about the ban ... well, I doubt I'm going to be very interested in contributing to Wikipedia elsewhere. There's lots of things to do on the Internet, and in the world. I've been here. Done it. For now, I'm certainly in a position to knock it. That said, I'm grateful for the presence of people like you. Thanks.--Thomas B (talk) 11:07, 20 January 2010 (UTC)

Hi!Can you offer help for a newbie?

Hey Henrik! I'm Screwball, and I love editing wikipedia.

I came across your page after seeing through the Number of Page Views tool and I must say, I was really drawn to your User page and achievements. I'm not sure if it's the type of articles that I go for, or maybe my writing style, but I think something is holding me back from being a great wikipedian.

Tell me, since I want to be part of the making of a Featured article, what advice might you give me? I have been working on the Linda McMahon page for some time now, but every time I look at it, I see mistakes, weasel words, weak research, and tons of irrelevant and in-perspective information. I was hoping to get a Featured article or at least a Good article through my efforts, but I just can't seem to get it done.

If you have time, could you please give me some feedback? I want my work to grow and develop into something great.

sincerely, --Screwball23 talk 01:07, 21 January 2010 (UTC)

Page View Counter

I heve on equestion about the page view site, lets say I want to see how many times my user page was viewed in a day. Is me refreshing or viewing the page included in the page view count? If you would answer my my talk page I would apreciate it, Thank You. --Clarince63 (talk) 10:41, 23 January 2010 (UTC)

Wikists data

Hi, I want to generate a toplist of most-viewed math articles in the German Wikipedia out of the raw datasets from http://dammit.lt/wikistats/ but I'm afraid I don't understand what the numbers in the pagecount files mean. Since you wrote that stats tool I hope you can tell me?! :-) I know they represent hits, but since when? --Pberndt (talk) 15:07, 24 January 2010 (UTC)

Never mind. Got it.. --Pberndt (talk) 19:58, 24 January 2010 (UTC)

It doesn't work

Sorry but today, it doesn't work. Why ? Thanks a lot. Best regards.

IP, 24 January 2010 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.88.219.92 (talk) 18:04, 24 January 2010 (UTC)

Yes, it seems that it (the hit counter) has stopped at 2 o' clock in the morning Saturday 23 ... (according to http://dammit.lt/wikistats/) --Chassain (talk) 19:06, 24 January 2010 (UTC)

Thanks. However, we have no explanation... It doesn't work. Today again. Best regards. IP, 25 January 2010 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.88.219.92 (talk) 08:46, 25 January 2010 (UTC)

traffic statistics have not been updated (Saturday 23 & Sunday 24 missing)

and thanks for the very useful tool, anyway. --Chassain (talk) 09:51, 25 January 2010 (UTC)

Hope you have not give up on it! - Ret.Prof (talk) 15:24, 25 January 2010 (UTC)

Nope, it's a problem at the source, nothing to do with me. All but two hours of the 23rd and 24th are gone. But it's started updating again now, so hopefully the 25th will be complete. henrik•talk 15:35, 25 January 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for posting this reply here; I was going to ask about this when I noticed that others had already asked. I use the tool quite often; thanks for creating it! Nyttend (talk) 23:39, 25 January 2010 (UTC)

No chance of recovering the missing data, I suppose? :( -- ChrisO (talk) 01:51, 26 January 2010 (UTC)

Afraid not (you might ask Domas though, if anyone can it'd be him). A shame too, I'd have been interested to see how views ADE 651 got. henrik•talk 09:09, 26 January 2010 (UTC)

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Eric Harland

I wonder why did you delete Eric Harland article. It is a real person of a particular stature in jazz music, than why delete it saying it is insignificant article? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.251.240.44 (talk) 08:14, 26 January 2010 (UTC)

You're right. I have restored it. Thanks for pointing it out. henrik•talk 09:07, 26 January 2010 (UTC)

Page view statistics Changed

Henrik, I have been on the Ralph Osterhout article, and I noticed the page view statistics were changed on either 22 or 23 Dec. The article usually gets about 300-400 views monthly with spikes as recently as 18 Dec with 142 views. Now, the statistics have changed dramatically. Is there a reason for this?

On a side note, thank you for your wiki gardening and efforts.(Robert94704 (talk) 21:34, 23 December 2009 (UTC))

Update: The original page view statistics have returned. Thanks again for the the statistics page. (Robert94704 (talk) 23:54, 28 December 2009 (UTC)).

I have also noticed some anomalies in several article statistics. The latest is: http://stats.grok.se/en/201001/Newsvine where statistics for Jan 23&24 indicate zero views, where normally there are several dozens every day? Ottawahitech (talk) 19:51, 26 January 2010 (UTC)

Wiki Stats

What happened to the Article Traffic Stats for the 23rd and 24th? Thanks Binyamin Goldstein (talk) 00:30, 27 January 2010 (UTC)

The collection of the traffic data seems to have malfunctioned at the source, so it is unfortunately lost. henrik•talk 10:13, 27 January 2010 (UTC)

Are there any other places the traffic data is stored and might not have been lost? Binyamin Goldstein (talk) 11:21, 27 January 2010 (UTC)

Page view statistics question

Hi, I'm enjoying looking at the page view statistics for various Wikipedia pages. Thanks for creating the software. Is there a way to see which are THE most-viewed articles on Wikipedia? Thanks, AFriedman (talk) 04:11, 13 January 2010 (UTC)

I think you're looking for this page. Killiondude (talk) 04:21, 13 January 2010 (UTC)

How about an updated one? That's August 2008. - Fayenatic (talk) 08:36, 13 January 2010 (UTC)

Oh yeah. Forgot to mention that. That's the most up-to-date data he has, I believe. Killiondude (talk) 08:58, 13 January 2010 (UTC)

Thanks, Killiondude. --AFriedman (talk) 00:19, 14 January 2010 (UTC)

I'll try to see if I can get this updated to something a bit more recent this weekend. :) henrik•talk 12:52, 15 January 2010 (UTC)

Please let me know when you do. FYI, I'm using this link in a conference presentation next weekend. --AFriedman (talk) 17:18, 17 January 2010 (UTC)

Now updated with the last full month of data, so the ranking is showing December 2009 now. (And out of curiosity, what's the presentation about? :-) henrik•talk 18:31, 17 January 2010 (UTC)

Thanks. The presentation is actually about Wikiversity, what it does and how it could receive more attention. I'll be giving a Wikipedia Meetup lightning talk. I was happy to see that the top few articles receive a large amount of traffic, because it looks to me like adding links to Wikiversity in Wikipedia's most heavily viewed articles is a manageable task if we so decide to do this. --AFriedman (talk) 03:30, 19 January 2010 (UTC)

Hello, is it possible to view page statistics as hits per week and per month instead of only hits per day? If not, could such a function be created? Isalar (talk) 14:58, 23 January 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for the Page View function. I like it a lot. Is it possible to create summative graphs that display the views on a per year or something similar basis. Thanks. Woollymammoth (talk) 23:56, 29 January 2010 (UTC)

Homefirst Health Services

It seems that you deleted an article I had recently updated on Homefirst Health Services and I am not sure why you did.

The reason seems to be because I didn't indicate it's significance, but I was also trying to keep it fairly neutral about the company and I did list it's major features which I would think indicate significance.

So if you could please inform me as to the justifications I would greatly appreciate it.

Thank you

JoeSteampunk (talk) 22:01, 28 January 2010 (UTC)Joe Steampunk

The vast majority of corporations/organizations don't meet our guidelines for inclusion (see this for the full details). If you can demonstrate that Homefirst Health Services has been the subject of in depth coverage from independent sources (newspapers, magazines, books, etc), then I'd be happy to restore the article for you. henrik•talk 07:43, 29 January 2010 (UTC)

Thank you for the clarification.

Stats down 23 24 january?

Hej Henrik! your stats tool is great - Was it down for some reason the 23 and 24th? --Rembertbiemond (talk) 20:58, 29 January 2010 (UTC)

See User_talk:Henrik#Wiki_Stats Ottawahitech (talk) 01:58, 31 January 2010 (UTC)

Stats Mirtos article

Hello Henrik. I am a novice here at Wikipedia, just active for a few days, happy to see the stats of the Mirtos article, after a long dip I see a raise in visitors:

http://stats.grok.se/nl/201001/Mirtos

I will keep on working on the Dutch and Eglish version.

Best regards

Ron Vos

--Ron Vos (talk) 15:12, 30 January 2010 (UTC)

Sono redirect

Hi Henrik, I'm new to this, so hope you can help me. I just made a page about SONO, a Danish vocal group, and discovered that when searching for "Sono" you're redirected to South Norwalk instead. I would like to change this redirect, since the term is the actual name of the vocal group, and not just an abbrevation/slang for something, is that a fair deal? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Annasmil (talk • contribs) 20:45, 31 January 2010 (UTC)

Mejl?

Would you mind if I contacted you over e-mail about something?

Peter ^Isotalo 12:00, 1 February 2010 (UTC)

Hm? No, of course not. Mail away. henrik•talk 12:04, 1 February 2010 (UTC)

Can't find my page on the deletion log...

I was looking for our page, Alliance Data on Wikipedia and it is no longer there. My co-worker said it was deleted but I went on the deletion log and couldn't retrieve the page or the reason it was deleted.

Could you help?

Thanks so much.

The user name: AllianceData

Kwesirobertson (talk) 19:18, 2 February 2010 (UTC)

I appeal that the page/article on Esoteric Healing I wrote yesterday is restored - I hadn't completed it! I returned this morning to add a lot more refs to the books by Alice Bailey contained in the article, but it has been deleted. If required, I am happy to remove the majority of refs to my own book on esoteric healing. It was not meant to be self-promoting, but to be informative to the public looking for specific information about esoteric healing. Please restore the article so that i can re-edit the subject as I intended. I wanted to include a wide number of diverse references so that the subject has balanced treatment, and visitors are properly informed likewise. Again, I ask for the article to be restored so that the subject esoteric healing can be edited appropriately as I intended. I look forward to hearing from you. Alan Hopking

please usify to me - is this correct.

please contact me —Preceding unsigned comment added by Alanhopking (talk • contribs) 19:23, 2 February 2010 (UTC)

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Hello, I created a page in English, but I see now that this page has my user name as a title, then the name of the catalan woman writer, but I am not sure if it is correct. Please if you want to have a look or correct possible errors, the URL is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Emperson/Núria_Añó I'd like to know when this article will be available for other users. Many thanks and hope you can help me, Emperson (talk) 11:17, 3 February 2010 (UTC)

Dear Henrik, I quite often check the statistics of the article "Сатья Саи Баба" in Russian Wikipedia. Unfortunately, I cannot see any resuts for February 2010. The last data are for January 2010. I wonder what the matter is. Open 2 (talk) 07:53, 4 February 2010 (UTC)

dePROD of Klaus Lynggaard Hougesen

I am rather new to wikipedia and I am not sure if I did the rigt thing but I have removed the PROD tag from Klaus Lynggaard Hougesen, which you proposed for deletion, because I thought I could improve it AND because I think that the deletion of this article may be controversial. I later added the notability template and the original research template. Unitl now I am not sure if he is notable, but I do not exclude the possibility that it can be proofed. Maybe it can be moved to AfD. Regards, Kmw2700 (talk) 15:12, 4 February 2010 (UTC)

Range of dates obsolete in the "Wikipedia article traffic statistics" beta service

The data to display can cover the range from December of 2007 to January of 2010. Although the application is working properly during this month, it could not possible to recover the information of months since January 2010 from now onwards. I am pretty sure a lot of wikipedia users (specially the editors of articles) will be very pleased to see and use this improvement in your application, if you would do it. Thank you very much for this good work that incentivate our work. Flakinho (talk) 03:16, 6 February 2010 (UTC)Flakinho

Stats

Hi, first I wanted to thank you for your excellent stats-tool, which I frequently use. My question is: Does it really work for commons? I tried some pictures which must be frequently displayed and looked up, but it gave me lots of zeros, in fact no hits with only one exception. Pittigrilli (talk) 18:59, 6 February 2010 (UTC)

Second opinion/retrieve deleted article.

Michael.fogleman (talk) 22:15, 6 February 2010 (UTC)

Hi, an article I wrote was recently deleted and I was hoping for a second opinion since I'm new to this. The page was Feed Notifier and I also added it to Comparison of feed aggregators.

I created the page because all of the other news aggregators listed there have their own article. In that regard, I don't see how Feed Notifier is any less qualified to have its own article. I also tried my best to include complete and accurate data in the comparison tables, more so than most of the other software.

It was deleted with code A7, but according to that rule, it doesn't apply to "articles about their books, albums, software, or other creative works" - isn't Feed Notifier "software"? What is your opinion on this deletion? If the deletion is justified, what about some of those other aggregators that have their own page?

Finally, I'd like to retrieve the text if possible. I saw you on the list of admins who could do that for me. Thanks.

stats.grok.se data

Hi Henrik,

Thanks for the stats feature - It is a great addition. Most contributors like to know that their contributions are being visited.

Opusiv (talk) 00:47, 8 February 2010 (UTC)

Hi Henrik,

I'm a professor at Johns Hopkins University, and I'm having my students look at trends in wikipedia access logs ala your stats.grok.se site. Do you know if the raw data from dammit.lt/wikistats/ from beyond the last has been archived anywhere? I found a 1TB slice of it on the Amazon Public Data sets, but I'd like a more complete history. If you've got any pointers to more archives, I'd appreciate it.

Best Regards, Chris Callison-Burch —Preceding unsigned comment added by Callison-burch (talk • contribs) 00:02, 7 January 2010 (UTC)

I have the same question. Maybe we should find a server where we can keep all of it. I am thinking iBiblio.org might be ideal. --Una Smith (talk) 20:13, 7 January 2010 (UTC)

Hi, the only archived data I know about starts from December 2007; it is about 1 Tb in size (compressed gzip files, one per hour), so you may have most of it already. There is no "official" archive yet, but this is being worked on. In the meantime, several wikipedians (me included) maintain an uptodate archive. You can contact me by email if you need more information. Cheers, Schutz (talk) 08:15, 8 January 2010 (UTC)

The data I use for stats.grok.se isn't in the best format to reuse, it is processed, split up and indexed in multiple databases for quick lookup: I don't keep the original files (disk space limitations), so it may be better to talk to Schutz and compare notes. As he says, you might have most if it already? henrik•talk 08:51, 8 January 2010 (UTC)

Having looked at the dataset on Amazon, it is probably 1 Tb *uncompressed*, so that would be about one third of what's currently available (1 Tb compressed). Schutz (talk) 13:09, 8 January 2010 (UTC)

Thanks! I'll follow up with Schutz by e-mail. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Callison-burch (talk • contribs) 21:52, 11 January 2010 (UTC)

Traffic statistics 2010-02

Hej Henrik! On the "Wikipedia Article Traffic Statistics" page there is no possibility to select 201002 (february 2010) in the drop-down menu. If one enters 201002 manually into the address bar of the browser, it works. It would be cool if you could fix this. Tack och många hälsningar från tyskland! TUFKAUP (talk) 08:46, 2 February 2010 (UTC)

Fixed. henrik•talk 07:47, 8 February 2010 (UTC)

2010_Toyota_vehicle_recalls

Just to let you know the stats for this recent article (created 28 January 2010) have disappeared. There were hundreds recorded on the 28 and 29 but now nothing is showing? I don't see any problem with any other article, so why this one? Ottawahitech (talk) 01:55, 31 January 2010 (UTC)

Also now that the title of the article has changed to 2009–10 Toyota vehicle recalls the statistics for the page with the previous title no longer show up when one clicks on Page View Statistics in the History tab - but one can still get those old stats by going to http://stats.grok.se/en/201002/2010_Toyota_vehicle_recalls. Ottawahitech (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 12:54, 4 February 2010 (UTC).

I just found out something I want to share with others reading this: a comment in http://stats.grok.se/about answered my question above. Apparently when an article is redirected a new set of statistics is started. Ottawahitech (talk) 14:34, 9 February 2010 (UTC)

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Again it (the hit counter) doesn't work

Sorry but again, it doesn't work. Why ? Thanks a lot. Best regards.

IP, 9 February 2010 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.88.219.92 (talk) 08:10, 9 February 2010 (UTC)

same remark (sorry to be tedious, and thanks anyway ...)--Chassain (talk) 12:41, 9 February 2010 (UTC)

No statistics for February 8, 2010 for any article? Ottawahitech (talk) 13:58, 9 February 2010 (UTC)

yes, not in the french wikipedia, for sure, but it is a little bit early to be alarmed, i think--Chassain (talk) 15:03, 9 February 2010 (UTC)

Anthony Roll at FAC

I put up Anthony Roll for FAC in case you're interested.

Peter ^Isotalo 17:02, 9 February 2010 (UTC)

Your tool is malfunctioning

Hey Henrik, your article stat viewing tool is malfunctioning and does not show the stats for that day when an article is featured in DYK as happened for the article Roxxxy [11]. A discussion on this can be found here. Do you have any idea how to fix it? --Defender of torch (talk) 05:03, 10 February 2010 (UTC)

about article stats tool

Is that better to call it alpha rather than call it very beta? C933103 (talk) 18:36, 10 February 2010 (UTC)

Some days are not counted

Hallo Henrik, what is the reason that some days are not counted? At January 23th and 24th or February 8th for example there is null for all articles. Kindest regards -- Spurzem (talk) 22:59, 10 February 2010 (UTC)

Bug in stats.grok.se for Commons

Pages like http://stats.grok.se/commons.m/200912/File:Sex_intercourse.jpg don't link correctly. The URL at the top of the page goes to http://commons.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File%3ASex_intercourse.jpg which is invalid. If you could fix it, I'd really appreciate it. :-) --MZMcBride (talk) 03:37, 31 January 2010 (UTC)

It's the same situation for Meta URLs, by the way. -- Mentifisto 04:20, 14 February 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for updating the "top viewed" statistics for Commons, by the way. I just noticed that a few weeks ago! :-) Killiondude (talk) 04:22, 14 February 2010 (UTC)

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Small usability concern on your traffic statistics tool.

I believe you should put a space between the year and month, makes the reading easier. Otherwise, its a great idea. Keep up the good work! Tinss (talk) 16:43, 16 February 2010 (UTC)

re the neutrality tag on esoteric healing

I have again worked through this article so that it conforms with wiki's neutrality requirement. Please reassess and consider removing the tag referring to dispute etc, thanks. Alanhopking (talk) 23:54, 15 February 2010 (UTC)Alanhopking (talk) 23:27, 17 February 2010 (UTC)

I have done some substantial referencing for the page esoteric healing. Is this enough to have the neutrality tag and dispute tab removed? Thanks. Alanhopking (talk) 19:18, 20 February 2010 (UTC)

Deletion of Steve Hillier

Hi Henrik

I see that you deleted the article "Steve Hillier" on January 20th 2010, and I would like to request it's re-inclusion.

Steve Hillier is an active record producer, journalist and songwriter who has sold over a million albums. He also is a world leading expert in songwriting, currently lecturing in songwriting and composition at Sussex University, UK.

He's also a regular contributor to TV and radio programs for the BBC in the UK, and wrote a substantial portion of BBC Radio 2's 'sold on song' website.

Does this make him significant enough to re-include the article? I would be very happy to update it myself.

David Sloan

87.194.1.171 (talk) 16:21, 17 February 2010 (UTC)

Restoration of the deleted article TripleA (computer game). To the great disappointment of our the open source TripleA community, our Wikipedia entry has been removed within a weeks time without anyone of us noticing the running procedure. And that after the article been online for a long time, and been accessed at least about 30 times a day (as I know from the redirects occurring from it to my TripleA page). Our community has an interest in getting the article back up again, and we would like to use the old article as a basis for a new one. You were listed as one of the editors willing to restore articles, which is why I contact you with this request. I have no further experience with this procedure.

Thank you for any help.

--ErnieBommel (talk) 18:15, 17 February 2010 (UTC)

deletion of edit

I am a lawyer. I tried to cite legal encyclopedia Corpus Juris Secundum. My edit was deleted within seconds.137.148.217.216 (talk) 14:41, 20 February 2010 (UTC)

Does the traffic counter count visits in 24 hours or number of different IPs visiting in 24 hours?

What a great tool! On behalf of the rest of humankind, thank you. It makes it so much easier to persuade academics to contribute. A query: If only one IP visits a page (but 100 times) in a day, will the stat for that day show 1 or 100? Cheers Anthony (talk) 11:22, 21 February 2010 (UTC)

Final discussion for Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Biographies of living people

Hello, I note that you have commented on the first phase of Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Biographies of living people

As this RFC closes, there are two proposals being considered:

1. Proposal to Close This RfC
2. Alternate proposal to close this RFC: we don't need a whole new layer of bureaucracy

Your opinion on this is welcome. Okip 02:18, 24 February 2010 (UTC)

The traffic statistics tool is off for Feb 23.

The traffic statistics tool is off for Feb 23. Will there be some loss of data again ? Too bad ... Thanks for the nice tool anyway ... --Chassain (talk) 07:21, 24 February 2010 (UTC)

Again and again, it's off... Why ?

IP, 24 February 2010 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.252.245.33 (talk) 11:45, 24 February 2010 (UTC)

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Wikipedia article traffic statistics

Hi! Is there a way to access stats.grok.se from the toolserver in a more "machine-efficient" form? I am working on some GLAM-related tools (here and here) and would like to get view statistics for the articles that GLAM-supplied images are displayed on. Basically, I have a list of [1-10000] page titles for [1-300] projects, and for each of these I'd like "this page was viewed X times in 2009-10". I could now run a few 10K queries against stats.grok.se and screenscrape the value from HTML, but that seems rude and inefficient :-) Is there a way I can batch-query the monthly views for several pages? Or is this data mirrored on the toolserver somewhere? I don't think I'll need the daily numbers, monthly sums will do fine for this purpose. Any help would be appreciated! Thanks, Magnus Manske (talk) 09:26, 27 January 2010 (UTC)

Hi! If you prepend json to the url, you'll get the data in json format instead of needing to scrape the html (example: http://stats.grok.se/json/en/200910/Main_Page). I should, really, really, note this somewhere on the site. :)

That interface doesn't do batch lookups, but I'm not sure how much more efficient that would be (the main limiting factor is disk access in any case). But if it is not so much more than a million requests, that is not so large that I would mind that you used the json interface. I serve around 50k requests daily as it is. Try it and see if you get acceptable performance. Just please don't run a large number of threads simultaneously. :) If it turns out to be a problem, I expect we'll be able figure something out.

I don't have a toolserver account myself, so I don't know much about it. I have been thinking about requesting one, but I got lost somewhere in the signup process. There are some interesting things you could do. henrik•talk 10:08, 27 January 2010 (UTC)

Hello, I would like to know why, a few days each month, there are no statistics available in the french Wikipédia version ? Thanks ! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.100.144.164 (talk) 09:22, 26 February 2010 (UTC)