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Request to move deleted pages to personal page

Hello,

Can you move my deleted pages to my personal page?

I would really appreciate it -- thank you for your time! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 2010philosopher (talk • contribs) 13:19, 15 June 2010 (UTC)

I would suggest you take a look at WP:REFUND. Killiondude (talk) 16:53, 27 June 2010 (UTC)

My article deleted within 30 seconds of me posting it: Can i have a copy emailed to me?

Hi, my article on a website called requestit was deleted by the user Nakon literally 30 seconds after posting, i had just finished posting on the talk page that i am new to wikipedia and i dont know how to use tags or refrences, but he had no mercy for my hour worth of work. Can you please email me a copy of the deleted article? Thanks. Just as a sidenote, I don't see any other article stating why it should be on wikipedia, yet mine was deleted because i dod not state on it why it should be in an encyclopedia!! Can you please explain this to me? Thanks, my email address is ryanstewart456@live.co.uk —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ryanmartin250 (talk • contribs) 21:49, 22 June 2010 (UTC)

You can ask at WP:REFUND for a copy of the deleted page to be emailed to you by an administrator. Henrik hasn't edited Wikipedia in several months, so it's safe to say he probably won't see your message to him. Killiondude (talk) 16:52, 27 June 2010 (UTC)

Edited article without logging in

Hi, I recently edited a page by mistake without logging in, so my IP is there now for everyone to see. I want to know if there is a way of fixing this.

Thanks very much. Chezi-Schlaff (talk) 21:56, 22 June 2010 (UTC)

I'm not sure now that we have RevDel, but in the past some oversighters have been willing to fix that for people. You could try Special:EmailUser/Oversight. Killiondude (talk) 16:50, 27 June 2010 (UTC)

Pease send me response on for_kouronai@yahoo.com

why do i not fund not a single referince of manufactoring of weapon, explosibils, tacticts, military strategys, and not the perssons ho wrote abut it but how they didit —Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.136.97.249 (talk) 20:39, 23 June 2010 (UTC)

Article traffic statistics

Hi!

I was wondering if it is possible to use http://stats.grok.se/ to get statistcs for Wiktionary. I've tried to use for example http://stats.grok.se/pt.wikt/201006/Special:Recentchanges, but it didn't work. What code should I use in the url?

I would be good to have an additional field to select the wikiproject (besides the fields for languages and months). Helder (talk) 19:17, 27 June 2010 (UTC)

Another massive drop-off

Across the board. Wish there was something I could do to help. – Kerαunoςcopia^◁_galaxies 02:43, 28 June 2010 (UTC)

Yes, wish I could help too. This is the most useful utility on Wikipedia, and now it is seriously broken! --Epipelagic (talk) 23:12, 28 June 2010 (UTC)

Doing extension with http://stats.grok.se/ - PHP Class? Scripts?...

Hello Henrik, good morning.

My name is Fernando from Spain. I am trying begin an extension for advanced stats in MediaWiki. I have seen your page: http://stats.grok.se/ and the raw data: http://dammit.lt/wikistats/

Do you could let me code for generate these raw data, read stats and generate graphics for it?

Very thanks you,

Regards! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Hidabe (talk • contribs) 07:56, 29 June 2010 (UTC)

I would like to know who wrote the biography of Fernando Alvim (Music). It is absolutely incomplete, wrong and with false statements. For example it is said thar Fernando was born in "Seiça" which isn´t true. Maria Alvim (Fernando´s wife) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.54.211.151 (talk) 09:07, 29 June 2010 (UTC)

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stats.grok.se, simple linkfix.

Links that allows one to move to previous and next month would be very useful for the usage of statistics. Also an per year view could be useful to find accesses related too the time of year. Electron9 (talk) 21:30, 29 June 2010 (UTC)

The traffic visualizer at http://emw.ath.cx/wikistats/ allows users to get detailed information for arbitrary date ranges. Emw (talk) 00:16, 30 June 2010 (UTC)

Traffic stats

I like the traffic stats tool and use it often. Instead of having to click the date box, selecting the date and the clicking "Go" how about putting in up/down arrow boxes to scroll thru the months. Might need javascript - dunno - am not a programmer. Cheers. -- Alan Liefting (talk) - 21:08, 30 June 2010 (UTC)

I love the Wikipedia article traffic statistics feature - thank you! Francis Hannaway 21:14, 2 July 2010 (UTC)francish7 —Preceding unsigned comment added by Francish7 (talk • contribs)

feature request

Hi, could it be possible for the traffic statistic tool to show the statistics in one diagram after and bevore an article had been moved? -- 172.158.21.184 (talk) 12:27, 4 July 2010 (UTC)

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Stats

What happened to July 5 stats? Will this ever be fixed? Seems to go down a lot. 71.129.176.82 (talk) 22:16, 6 July 2010 (UTC)

note on google searching

Hi,

Just quick fyi - the google search javascript addition works fine with https:// searches too! Smkolins (talk) 19:06, 7 July 2010 (UTC)

article traffic statistics for den norske artikkel rød skogsnegl

Hej Henrik

Er det muligt at reaktivere traffic statistics for rød skogsnegl?

med venlig hilsen

sct søren —Preceding unsigned comment added by Abbed jens (talk • contribs) 06:39, 9 July 2010 (UTC)

Request for retrival of deleted page.

Hey, pls retrieve or send a copy of my article that was deleted. The article was titled nimt.

I will recreate the article strictly following the rules and regulations.pls consider my request. my mail:sid746@mail.com —Preceding unsigned comment added by Yahoo468 (talk • contribs) 20:40, 9 July 2010 (UTC)

WP article traffic statistics

Hi Henrik. It seems your tool has some trouble working this month: several days are missing (July 4th, and 7th, 8th ,9th). Best regards --Actarus Prince d'Euphor (talk) 04:55, 10 July 2010 (UTC)

Out of order !

Yes, the tool is out of order. But why ? Thanks a lot for the explanations.

IP, 10 July 2010 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.88.219.134 (talk) 05:44, 10 July 2010 (UTC)

I don't think the problem is in Henrik's tool, but due to lack of input data. He gets the data from http://dammit.lt/wikistats/, (provided by Domas Mituzas) and as you can see, a lot of data is missing here for the last few days. But now it seems to be back up again :) Isaac Euler (talk) 11:36, 10 July 2010 (UTC)

We have had the issue before where Domas Mituzas fixed their end, but the stats still did not appear. Something in the stats.grok.se 69.237.149.80 (talk) 12:13, 10 July 2010 (UTC)

Down more than it's up

• June 11-16 when stats reported incorrectly.
• June 26, 28, 31 and July 5,7,8,9-stats not there at all.
• Indicative of a system problem getting worse. Does Wikipedia have a fix?

69.237.149.80 (talk) 10:21, 10 July 2010 (UTC)

Where is Henrik?

Where is Henrik? - Ret.Prof (talk) 23:12, 10 July 2010 (UTC)

stats.grok.se DOWN

Anybody know what's up with stats.grok.se ..!? no response from the site.. Electron9 (talk) 23:27, 11 July 2010 (UTC)

Yes, it's completely out of order. But we don't know why. That's a pity !

IP, 12 July 2010 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.14.91.177 (talk) 10:18, 12 July 2010 (UTC)

Wikibooks Traffic Stats

Hello, I'm Schoggi<br\ > I'm a Swiss Wikibooks (German) User.<br\ > Your Wikipedia Traffic Stats http://stats.grok.se is very nice! :)<br\ > It's possible to add an Wikibooks option? Can you improve this? :)<br\ > Sorry my English is very worse, i have to improve it.<br\ > Thanks befor! :)<br\ > Kind regards Schoggi--85.1.94.139 (talk) 15:01, 12 July 2010 (UTC)

Your stats.grok.se/de ...

Hallo,
It shows me no more hits in german wikipedia. Do you have deleted it? Say no, please. It's so great. ;-) --87.122.135.226 (talk) 15:24, 12 July 2010 (UTC) User behind the IP

Stats of Diptendu Pramanick

The stats at (http://stats.grok.se/en/201007/Diptendu_Pramanick) seem to stop after July 6th and I am sure there have been quite a few page hits. Is it an error or is there any temporary stoppage? Rgds SP 07:12, 13 July 2010 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Pramanick (talk • contribs)

WHO reads, not just HOW MANY

Hi Henrik. Just wondering whether Wikipedia stores and shares data on WHO is reading a particular article, such as mine about Bloom Brothers Department Stores, a defunct chain about which I'm gratified (to say the least) to know that about 200 people a month read. Where do my readers live, for example?71.225.144.64 (talk) 19:13, 10 July 2010 (UTC)

None of us have any idea. harej 06:11, 11 July 2010 (UTC)

The only way to get that information would be to passively track the IP addresses of readers (which we don't), and then to search the archives at WHOIS in order to see the physical address registered to any given IP. However, while this is perfectly legal for a private individual to do, if a company or organization used their information to compile a comprehensive list of that data and then publicly shared said data, it would be a felony as well as a gross invasion of privacy and a violation of individual user's constitutional rights (if U.S. citizens). Short and Sweet: no, it's not possible. Cwill151 (talk) 16:41, 13 July 2010 (UTC)

Web Traffic Calculator

Henrik, I recently used your beta program to track the web traffic on the page Omar al-Bashir and I noticed something odd: In the banner of the count itself, the program read, "Omar_al-Bashir has been viewed 1405 times in 201007". What is "201007"?

As well, in the graphical distribution, the x-axis seems to have no value other than a repeated series of 0's, what value is it supposed to represent? Don't get me wrong, I love the program itself but there just seem to be a few discrepancies, although I could simply be misreading it. Anyway, thank you for your time. Cwill151 (talk) 16:20, 13 July 2010 (UTC)

201007 means "2010 07", or July 2010. The repeated series of 0's represent that the page was not viewed during that timeframe. Obviously this is incorrect, but there seems to have been a few glitches lately in the program. I'm here because I was about to post a note that a lot of my articles seem to have suddenly bottomed out while they were at DYK. Nomader ^(Talk) 00:36, 14 July 2010 (UTC)

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Hi Henrik, I am watching the Theophostic Counseling page, and notice that the traffic stats have not been updated lately. Can you help? JohnSHolder (talk) 09:55, 14 July 2010 (UTC)

Indicating edits on page views

Your page view reports are interesting. They can be made more useful, if the edits are flagged for a day with a symbol on the x axis. It will help get an account of real reader views excluding editors.--Arjunaraoc (talk) 09:50, 19 June 2010 (UTC)

Is it even possible to differentiate between editors and readers? And why shouldn't editors be counted as readers? On days when an article is stable, I would suggest looking at the stats then. – Kerαunoςcopia^◁_galaxies 18:04, 19 June 2010 (UTC)

For young encyclopaedias, the distinction will be useful to gauge the reader interest as the articles are being enhanced(edited), as it may be a very long time for the article to stabilize. A reader page views table/chart excluding 2 times the edits from the total page views also will be useful. Arjunaraoc (talk) 14:18, 20 June 2010 (UTC)

"This is very much a beta service and may DISAPPEAR or change at any time." I just thought I'd stop by and express my adoration of page view statistics. I'm currently using it to try and figure out why a certain page I helped create (and am very much interested in getting out to the world) did something so right: it suddenly got ten times more page views one Sunday. -Tesseract2 (talk) 14:35, 16 July 2010 (UTC)

It might have been linked externally on a highly viewed page, thus leading lots of people to Wikipedia. Or you can check the pageviews of pages that link to the article in question using Special:WhatLinksHere (to see if a featured article or something linked to it). Or it could have been a computing error, sometimes those happen in these stats figures. Killiondude (talk) 19:45, 18 July 2010 (UTC)

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Wikipedia article traffic statistics - is cool!

Wikipedia article traffic statistics - is cool! I am prompted to write this because it says it might disappear! Bodysurfinyon (talk) 18:01, 19 July 2010 (UTC)

... and incredibly useful. Any tool that gives a rank order by month of respective articles?

You Article traffic stats tool is incredibly useful for jugding "before" and "after" as to article changes. Thank you.

To your knowledge, is there any tool that gives a rank order by month of respective articles? The only one I've looked at is for Economics which stays unchanged no matter what month I enter. [Moved from above (& supplemented) per directions.] --Thomasmeeks (talk) 20:46, 19 July 2010 (UTC)

Page View Statistics

Hi Henrik, it's very good to be able to see page view statistics in the history of a Wikipedia page. But I was wondering - which timezone does it use when deciding on which date a page was visited? Thanks, Robjwhite (talk) 18:26, 20 July 2010 (UTC)

UTC. Killiondude (talk) 18:29, 20 July 2010 (UTC)

THANK YOU FOR PAGE VIEW STATS

Just want to commend you once again for the article traffic statistics (page view)--this beta service is immensely helpful for us editors wondering how many hits our favorite articles get...

And I just visited Sweden for the first time. Very impressed with Stockholm!

Thank you!!!! DMLud (talk) 00:45, 21 July 2010 (UTC)

Stats question

How do I see what the most viewed pages are on Wikipedia? If I click top here, it does December 2009, I want to see current, or at least for June. CTJF83 chat 07:02, 26 July 2010 (UTC)

Stats.grok.se

Hello,

Firstly, thanks for putting together this service; however can I make a feature request? currently the graphs are a little misleading, as flucations in the service's performacne/uptime/whatever seem to be more strongly reflected than the intra-montly trends themselves. Would it be possible to compute or estimate some average value across the whole dataset? 129.67.86.189 (talk) 19:38, 26 July 2010 (UTC)

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Lunar date

What was the date of Islamic calender on 16th August 1998 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.163.77.100 (talk) 08:01, 27 July 2010 (UTC)

API for traffic statistics

Hi Henrik,

My name is Rosta Farzan. I am a researcher at Carnegie Mellon University. I was wondering if you have any API of your traffic statistics tool which provides the same information in any machine readable format or just plain text instead of visual representation. I do appreciate if you could let me know about that. You can contact me at rfarzan@cs.cmu.edu

Regards, Rostaf (talk) 21:16, 27 July 2010 (UTC)

Hello Rosta. There's no API, but the information Henrik uses is from http://dammit.lt/wikistats/. You might be interested in the attempt I made at writing an FAQ page for Henrik's tool here. There's also some information about the information provided from dammit.lt. You can also see JSON formatted data of the traffic stats by prepending /json/ to the URL like so: http://stats.grok.se/json/en/200910/Michael_Jackson. Killiondude (talk) 21:24, 27 July 2010 (UTC)

Stats.grok.se dropped the ball again

No stats for July 27. http://dammit.lt/wikistats/ is reporting 7-27, but not stats.grok.se. Maile66 (talk) 10:28, 28 July 2010 (UTC)

I have a feeling it might not totally be because of Henrik's tool. Please see here and here about some recent revelations about dammit.lt's data. Killiondude (talk) 16:32, 28 July 2010 (UTC)

Thanks. It's good to have the enlightenment. Maile66 (talk) 18:14, 28 July 2010 (UTC)

Article traffic counter

Love it. I've used it to analyse page-hit patterns for two issues of The Signpost. If you have any comments on this, I'd be pleased to hear them. Tony (talk) 05:13, 29 July 2010 (UTC)

It just stopped right at 27th! Kayau Voting IS evil 06:44, 29 July 2010 (UTC)

Tony, Henrik has not edited since late March. You may be likelier to get a response if you email him. Emw (talk) 11:44, 29 July 2010 (UTC)

Wikipedia article traffic statistics

Wikipedia article traffic statistics ... from 27.7.2010 out of service. --W.Rebel (talk) 09:04, 30 July 2010 (UTC)

Philanthropy article monitoring

This is a fantastic service you are doing—keep it up!!!

1) Why do some days have no recorded hits, when all other days have over 2,000? Seems odd that high traffic would reduce to zero any day. Is there a minimum threshold, or are some days simply not monitored?

2) I notice the rank of the article hasn't changed in two years, and doesn't vary with the hit-count. How can I find the current rank?

Many thanks,

72.93.170.195 (talk) 15:37, 30 July 2010 (UTC)

Page Statistics

Greetings,

I just noted the page statitics link. For example on, http://stats.grok.se/en/201007/william%20eugene%20blackstone. I do not know how to read the stats. What does 201007 mean? When I looked at the stats there was a spike to 192 once. How can I look at the stats and understand them. Is there a site or a link to read about this.

Appreciate any help.

J. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jrryjude (talk • contribs) 20:49, 31 July 2010 (UTC)

201007 means 2010, 07, so the 7th month (July) of 2010. The spike occurred because you were editing the page a lot that day: history. - Simeon (talk) 02:36, 1 August 2010 (UTC)

Page stat's down, again

Haven't been getting any page stat's for the last few days. Did the 'rubber band' break again?  :-) GWillHickers (talk) 03:01, 1 August 2010 (UTC)

new functionality suggestion for traffic stats tool

I think it would be very interesting to be able to create a top 1000 list of only the articles in a specific category on a specific wikipedia. For example: I am only working on Philippine related articles on the Dutch wikipedia, and therefor I am only interested in statistics about the article in Category:Filipijnen. Would it be difficult to add this functionality to your tool? Magalhães (talk) 06:11, 1 August 2010 (UTC)

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Stats.grok.se out of order

Hello Henrik ! Your wonderful toll is out order, I'm afraid... The following days are missing: July 27 to 31 and August 1st and 2nd. Cheers. --Actarus Prince d'Euphor (talk) 07:26, 3 August 2010 (UTC)

Stat tools seems to be off

Dear Henrik We are so used to your stat tool that any stoppage gets noticed. Seems it has stopped since July 27th. Plz do the needful. Thanks. SP 07:41, 3 August 2010 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Pramanick (talk • contribs)

• Yes, it seems the stats-tool file server fills up with too many data records and stops collecting data. This seems to happen after a major popular event, such as the premiere of one of those vampire films in the series since Twilight (2008 film) or perhaps, for new film Inception (2010 film). When anyone knows the expected date for a new blockbuster film, then please warn Henrik to prepare for the stats tool to die during the premiere of such films, at least I think that is what happens. Some of those films should likely be expected to appear in July each year. -Wikid77 (talk) 22:27, 3 August 2010 (UTC)

Ferien?

Liegst du am Strand? Die Wikipedia article traffic statistics scheinen nicht mehr zu funktionieren.

Liebe Grüsse -- Sanblatt (talk) 18:04, 3 August 2010 (UTC)

page views

What happened to the pageview statistics page? Paulinho28 (talk) 01:54, 4 August 2010 (UTC)

Question about stats

Are these unique visitors or just the no. of hits the page receives p/m? (Sorry if this is a silly question!) Junkie007 (talk) 16:16, 4 August 2010 (UTC)

Not unique visitors, just the total of hits from everyone. So if, for example, you spend a lot of time editing an article one day, the hits for that day might be exceedingly high (especially if it is a new article). Killiondude (talk) 17:01, 4 August 2010 (UTC)

Stats Tool

I'm unable to navigate to the 201008 page from the drop down menu. You must click the link in the "View History" page to navigate there. ThomasHorn7 (talk) 22:14, 4 August 2010 (UTC)

ok, had the same problem. --Steve, Sm8900 (talk) 13:55, 5 August 2010 (UTC)

You can manually change the date in the URL. Sometimes there's a lag on when the date shows up in the dropdown box. For more info, see the FAQ page. Killiondude (talk) 21:32, 6 August 2010 (UTC)

Wiki-Stats

Hi Henrik, is it ok to use the data on http://dammit.lt/wikistats/ for a university project? Best regards, Wolfgang Stock —Preceding unsigned comment added by 93.241.100.240 (talk) 08:14, 5 August 2010 (UTC)

The person in charge of that data is actually domas. Killiondude (talk) 21:31, 6 August 2010 (UTC)

Page Counts

Henrik,

I have been trying to pull together some resources to evaluate what science topics Americans do/do not understand. I came across your Wiki Page Counts page and am wondering if there is a way to get a simple table output rather than the graphs. Thanks for any feedback!

Cheers, Adam Maltese Avm1975 (talk) 21:23, 6 August 2010 (UTC)

Hey Adam. The original data set is from http://dammit.lt/wikistats/. If you have any further questions, you might be interested in the FAQ page. Killiondude (talk) 21:29, 6 August 2010 (UTC)

Live edit counter

Howdy. Your live edit counter does not appear to be working for me. I've added the userbox to my user page, and installed the script. I've cleared my cache both using a Shift-Reload (I'm on Firefox) and a Tools > Clear Recent History > Cache and then restarted my browser. The right number still doesn't show up for me. Any ideas?--Rockfang (talk) 05:58, 7 August 2010 (UTC)

Top articles of the month

The top results at the stat tool are the same regardless of the chosen month. I think that the text "Most viewed articles in 200912" should be "Most viewed articles since 200912". It's fine having a global data, but could you also provide the top for each month (or other time aggrupation you may prefer)? Sometimes you wish to restrict to get "a recent top". Platonides (talk) 21:41, 7 August 2010 (UTC)

Missing the August statistics

Hi.

Maybe you did not notice, but for the statistics for August on the Wikipedia article traffic statistics seem to be missing. For a while, I've been checking the visit statistics on pages I've created or am interested in. However, every article I check, the last month to appear is 201007.

Milosppf (talk) 14:19, 9 August 2010 (UTC)

You can manually change to URL so that it shows 201008. http://stats.grok.se/en/201008/User_talk:Henrik, for example. Killiondude (talk) 16:31, 9 August 2010 (UTC)

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Bubble Thing

Dear Hendrick,

I am the inventor of the Bubble Thing, the well-known toy which started the giant bubble sport in 1984. You can see it at my web site http://bubblething.com. Also on YouTube under search word "Bubble Thing". Some months ago, I edited the "Soap Bubble" article in wikipedia to reflect all this, and you approved it. It stayed for some time, and now I see that someone has removed it, probably one of my upstart competitors. Could you please restore this? I can't seem to find it in the history.

Thank you and best regards,

David Stein, inventor of the Bubble Thing 212-663-2326 ds@bubblething.com —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.244.104.91 (talk) 01:17, 11 August 2010 (UTC)

stats suggests

Hello

Can you add two arrows left and right to graph to change viewing month easily? `a5b (talk) 19:03, 12 August 2010 (UTC)

Stats are dead

But why ?

IP, 13 April 2010 Stats are still dead Bulwersator (talk) 17:13, 13 August 2010 (UTC)

Tatar Wiki

Would you please add Tatar (language code: tt) to the list on your Wikipedia article traffic statistics page. Timming (talk) 10:10, 14 August 2010 (UTC)

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Cumnulative hits a possibility?

Hello Henrik,

I greatly appreciate the Wkipedia article traffic statistics page at http://stats.grok.se/. Thanks for this useful service!

I have one request, and one question:

1) Would it be possible to create options to display cumulative traffic statistics in your pull-down date menu (i.e., total hits since creation; all of 2008, 2009, etc.)?

2) Does the number of hits shown also reflect page views by 'bots and spiders, or real people reading a given page?

Thanks in advance, and keep up the great work!

Dave Brown dbrown@brocku.ca 139.57.145.155 (talk) 17:04, 18 August 2010 (UTC)

You can view cumulative hits for the page, yes. Please see the FAQ page to learn how to manipulate the URL to do so. Killiondude (talk) 22:31, 18 August 2010 (UTC)

Autobiography question

A couple months ago I noticed my full name was in Wikipedia along with a statement thatI was an American engineer. How did that happen?

There was also an invitation to submit additional information. So, an article was recently submitted.

The stats page now shows 257 visits, most appearing to be before the article was submitted. Is that an error, or were there visits to the previous name and occupation listing?

I am a novice at the Wiki format What needs to be done to remove the Unreviewed Article Tag? User:luceyg (I think) Luceyg (talk) 20:08, 18 August 2010 (UTC)

Hello! It appears that Piszkosfred (talk · contribs) was the one who started the page. Regarding the hits the page received prior to it being created: yes, those are real "views" of the page before it was created. It didn't get very many in June, and none in July. If you could point to the place where you said you saw a few months ago that you were listed as an American engineer, I could show you who wrote that (by looking at the edit history) but it could by any number of wikipedians who edit the site.
Also, I've reviewed the article and it seems to be okay for Wikipedia and I've removed the tag at the top of the article. However, that doesn't mean the article can't go without improvements. It'd be nice to use inline citations that the software uses (See User:Chzz/help/refs-- I like how Chzz words his help documents-- and there's Help:Ref but that's a lengthy page) and more citations at specific parts in the article (where I added some [citation needed] tags).
Some reading material I strongly suggest you take a look at is WP:ASFAQ and WP:AUTO. Editing your own biography is not forbidden, but it is strongly discouraged. If you have any further questions, please ask me on my talk page or email me at KilliondudeWPgmail.com. Thanks. Killiondude (talk) 22:31, 18 August 2010 (UTC)

More stats strangeness

I don't know when this happened, but I just noticed today that the entire month of July 2010 has disappeared off http://stats.grok.se/ June is there, as is August. Maile66 (talk) 01:33, 20 August 2010 (UTC)

Page statistics question

I don't know the reason why, but the statistics of 201007 shows 0. Any trouble ? --Ichiro Kikuchi (talk) 14:51, 20 August 2010 (UTC)

Anything from July 2010 and even Wikipedia has 0 page hits. :| TelCoNaSpVe :| 22:13, 20 August 2010 (UTC)

Portal for hoaxes

Hello There!

My name is Salgado96, I'm 14 and I'm from Portugal. I love music so much, As you can see by my edits! Well, everybody knows that there is a lot of people who use Wikipedia to creat hoaxes about them selfs, most of them are depressed persons or have psico problems, I say that because I have a few friends who create them regulary. My idea is to create an especific portal for that kind of persons, called "Hoaxes Portal", where people can create articles about everything without needing references, verefication or external links. This way, we can provide the creating of hoaxes in the normal Wikipedia and give that kind of persons a personal space for them selfs. But I don't know how to creat it, and I was wondering if there's a chance for you to help me... :)

P.S: I ask for attention about this mesage! If this portal would be created, we could have a "clean encyclopedia". Please leave me a mesage on my talk page (click here). Thank you, Salgado96. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Salgado96 (talk • contribs) 03:20, 23 August 2010 (UTC)

Hi, I have been given an request for speedy deletion of my Wikipedia entry for Angela Martini, who was featured in Miss Universe 2010 as one of the top contestants. This seems to be a message in error since, the other contestants also have Wikipedia entries. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Makedavenger1989 (talk • contribs) 03:37, 24 August 2010 (UTC)

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Another page statistics question

What does 200810 mean? The first two digits are evidently the year and from looking through the index of dates the last two range from 1 to 12 so must be the month. But why are the middle two digits only 7, 8, 9, 10? Very puzzling. RewlandUmmer (talk) 10:25, 21 August 2010 (UTC)

2008 = the year 2008. 2007 = the year 2007. So on and so forth. Killiondude (talk) 18:44, 21 August 2010 (UTC)

Because the earliest existing records are from December 2007. --87.79.161.46 (talk) 23:35, 25 August 2010 (UTC)

Proofreading article

I notice that the proofreading stats have dropped to nothing after being very high. Is this a fix? —Preceding unsigned comment added by BruceSwanson (talk • contribs) 17:12, 25 August 2010 (UTC)

Page view stats off?

Is the counter off since August 23rd? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 125.17.117.211 (talk) 06:35, 26 August 2010 (UTC)

Out of order ! Yes, again and again. And we don't know why... Best regards.

IP, 26 Agugust 2010 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.14.91.177 (talk) 16:27, 26 August 2010 (UTC)

No article stats

No counts on article history since 08/21/10. Just thought I would make you aware if you weren't already. Thanks. Texas141 (talk) 23:33, 26 August 2010 (UTC)

Malayalam Wikipedia

You did a great work with article statistics. I would be grateful if you could also expand the statistics application to Malayalam Wikipedia http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki .It have nearly 15,000 articles. Advanced Thanks..Flowerman75 (talk) 15:50, 27 August 2010 (UTC)

Completely out of order ?

No article stats since 21/08...Why ? Thanks. Regards.

IP, 28 August 2010 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.88.219.61 (talk) 07:28, 28 August 2010 (UTC)

leopold seyffert

I am leopold seyffert relative and wonder why in july there were no visitors to his page Robert Seyffert (talk) 14:30, 28 August 2010 (UTC)

The statistics software breaks down from time to time, that's all. Richard75 (talk) 11:25, 29 August 2010 (UTC)

Young Jonii

I'm trying to get this article to be notable but i don't see whats wrong with it. User:Sunhawken/Young_Jonii (RuskiiSun (talk) 21:25, 28 August 2010 (UTC))

Angel Bakeries and Berman's Bakery

Hi, these articles appeared on the main page in DYK last week, but every time I call up the August stats, I only get page views for before that. Thanks, Yoninah (talk) 08:18, 30 August 2010 (UTC)

Norwegian articles

Hi Henrik What has happened to http://stats.grok.se ? The statistics for Norwegian Wikipedia articles in 2010 are very much lower or even absent. Eg.: the Norwegian articles on angst or depression.

Best regards, Runar Eggen —Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.159.249.66 (talk) 12:41, 30 August 2010 (UTC)

Wikipedia article traffic statistics

Hi Henrik,

Good job on the Wiki article traffic stats, well done!

I'm a researcher at University College London. I'd be interested in knowing some details about your statistics about Wikipedia article traffic for possible use in a little research project.

Would you be able to get in touch with me at:

m.cella@ucl.ac.uk

Thanks,

Matteo —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.40.27.57 (talk) 09:32, 31 August 2010 (UTC)

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Escaladix

Hello Hendrik!! first of, congratulations for your good work about the traffic statistics on WIkipedia!! =)

Hendrik, could please see what happen with this statistic... Is a user escaladix about the pages i have been created... The page expired and no longer exist... Could please arrange this...?! And would like to creat an site like Wikipedia with the Wiki tool... Can please tell me how...?? Best regards!!

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Wikipedia article traffic statistics

Hey Henrik, I was going back to see what the traffic statistics were for my previous DYK articles in July and they all state "0"--do statistics ever expire from the database at the end of the month? Thanks again for all you do for Wikipedia! --Caponer (talk) 12:09, 1 September 2010 (UTC)

Traffic counter seems to have stopped

Sorry to be chime in on one subject, but it seems that the page traffic counter stopped working on August 21 or 22, or at least it hasn't been reporting since August 22. Mindful of the warning, I realize that it may be that the plug was pulled... --Piledhigheranddeeper (talk) 21:32, 25 August 2010 (UTC)

All July 2010 numbers are gone

• And all numbers for July are currently gone. It displays zero hits for any page, even the main page. --87.79.161.46 (talk) 23:20, 25 August 2010 (UTC)

See above. :| TelCoNaSpVe :| 23:24, 25 August 2010 (UTC)

I've created a subsection so that others can find mention of the July numbers at first glance. --87.79.161.46 (talk) 23:34, 25 August 2010 (UTC)

I also miss the 2010 July statistics .. Electron9 (talk) 22:25, 1 September 2010 (UTC)

Activate page view statistics?

Hi, please can you help activate the page view statistics for Kolonga. Thank you. I'd be grateful to view statistics on how many times per month the page, Kolonga, is being viewed. Take care. —Preceding unsigned comment added by PohaFono (talk • contribs) 22:30, 1 September 2010 (UTC)

Message by Dr Claudio

Hello Henryk. Im' user of Wikipedia in italy language. I the information for the contavisite by henrik (you) created. Speak the english is a good. Hello and Tank.
Attention: The reply tis a my talk in wikipedia in italy language. Tank and Hello. Dr Claudio ^{segnali radio} 10:39, 2 September 2010 (UTC)

Date format in Page view statistics

Request to specify the date format in bracket 201009(yr-month) and so on. For a new user this is actually confusing. Then different formats are followed in different countries hence its better to specify. AkkiDa 03:57, 4 September 2010 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Akshayapanigrahi (talk • contribs)

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Hi there,

I am making a small research based on the "Wikipedia article traffic statistics".

I wonder if you can send me some information about this system and how its works. Any detail will contribute.

Please send it to my Email at:

dror.dagan@gmail.com

Thanks and Best Regards,

Dror —Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.179.40.156 (talk) 10:46, 8 September 2010 (UTC)

Can you delegate some of the page-stats upkeep work?

Hi Henrik, love the facility, and its continuous availability is becoming a must for WP. If it's a bore to add each month to the facility at the start of the month, I wonder whether it's possible to delegate this task. Thanks. Tony (talk) 06:10, 11 September 2010 (UTC)

Hi Tony. I think that task is done automatically, although it is somewhat buggy. Emw (talk) 12:18, 11 September 2010 (UTC)

Why are Wikipedia's page view statistics not maintained by Wikipedia staff?

Henrik has been providing outstanding service in this area as a volunteer. However, this function is way too important for this organization to rely on one single individual.

Any thoughts? Ottawahitech (talk) 15:51, 12 September 2010 (UTC)

It seems like WMF staff are working to address this; see http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Analytics_upgrade and http://wikitech.wikimedia.org/view/OWA_deployment. According to the second link, a new analytics tool could be launched in early October.

Even if the staff didn't implement that project, however, a page view statistics tool is not dependent on Henrik. The underlying data is available from the Internet Archive, beginning at http://www.archive.org/details/wikipedia_visitor_stats_200712, and also at http://dammit.lt/wikistats/. Emw (talk) 17:11, 12 September 2010 (UTC)

Yes, I agree : this function is way too important for this organization to rely on one single individual ! Best regards !

IP, 13 September 2010 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.14.91.177 (talk) 13:55, 13 September 2010 (UTC)

Stats question

Hi Henrik, On Sep. 12 this article Leymah Gbowee was featured on Did You Know, but the count for the page visit shows up as zero. Do you have any ideas? Thank you. USchick (talk) 15:18, 13 September 2010 (UTC)

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Please kindly take a look at statistics on the tam quyen phan lap pages, as I can not see how many people see my writting.

Thank you very much —Preceding unsigned comment added by 123.21.209.161 (talk) 08:40, 14 September 2010 (UTC)

Stats.grok.se– are all hits on a redirect counted?

Hi Henrik. I know the answer to this may depend on raw logs which you don't write, only process, but have you any idea if a hit on a redirect page that only results in a redirect (ie. not resulting in a rendering of the redirect page itself) actually produces a hit count? Many thanks, Trev M  ~  10:57, 13 September 2010 (UTC)

When one navigates to a URL that redirects to another page, that hit is listed for the redirect page. So if Foo was a redirect (and it is), then any hits on that page will be listed as for that page, not the target. Killiondude (talk) 17:12, 14 September 2010 (UTC)

As suspected: thanks very much for confirmation. Trev M  ~  17:21, 14 September 2010 (UTC)

That doesn't seem clear to me. What I observe is that now traffic through a redirect counts as a view of the redirect and as a view of the target; views of the redirect itself do not count as a view of the target. 69.3.72.249 (talk) 01:13, 15 September 2010 (UTC)

I think that's correct, 69.3.72.249. Viewing the redirect itself (achievable through a URL like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foo?redirect=no) registers as a view of that page and that page only. However, such hits are so infrequent as to be negligible. The vast majority of hits to redirects occur without those special parameters -- through a URL like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foo, i.e. Foo -- and register as views on both the redirect and the destination page. Emw (talk) 01:52, 15 September 2010 (UTC)

Wikipedia article traffic statistics

Thanks for the traffic statistics page. Are you no longer updating it? If not, do you know of another way to track Wikipedia article statistics? Thanks, Bill3857 17:56, 13 September 2010 (UTC)

There's http://toolserver.org/~emw/wikistats/, but that uses Henrik's data. It's somewhat buggy at the moment, but it works for the most part. Emw (talk) 02:00, 15 September 2010 (UTC)

Is it possible to fix the page view statistics for Theophostic Counseling for August and September?

Is it possible to fix the page view statistics for Theophostic Counseling for August and September?

JohnSHolder (talk) 17:01, 14 September 2010 (UTC)

About the page view counter

Hello Henrik. Is it possible that opening 10 or more stats pages at approx. the same time to block the counter? I thought this is deliberate and affects only me, and came here to find some info about avoiding it, but as I see, it affects other's stats too. John smith account (talk) 08:10, 15 September 2010 (UTC)

Out of order again and again

Out of order again and again. Please, give us some informations. Thanks.

IP, 15 September 2010 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.88.219.61 (talk) 08:23, 15 September 2010 (UTC)

Wikipedia article traffic statistics

Hi Henrik. Once more: Would it be possible to extend the range of the months automatically allways on the first day of the next month? I believe, this should be easy, and many wikipadians would be lucky. Greatings --Geisler Martin (talk) 15:44, 15 September 2010 (UTC)

Traffic again…

Greets Henrik! I've got a favor to ask: would you mind refreshing stats for plwiki? The last monthly one was done for December 2009. Thanks in advance! Regards, konradek (talk) 16:50, 15 September 2010 (UTC)

Michael Sabo August statistics

Can you update the page views for Michael Sabo for the month of August and currently in September. Statistics appear to be stuck from the middle of August 2010 on.Seasons1987 (talk) 14:25, 16 September 2010 (UTC)

Wikipedia article traffic statistics

Please, add into select box "September 2010" (201009). Thanks in advance. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.32.164.80 (talk) 17:06, 15 September 2010 (UTC)

hi my page Sherwood Cryer is stuck on the history view page can you help it has stayed the same for a week now!thanks Crystal —Preceding unsigned comment added by Cris57helpme (talk • contribs) 23:22, 15 September 2010 (UTC)

Hi, it seems that not only the September 2010 does not work. Also the July is not working. Kind regards from Germany--KarlV :  DISC  10:14, 17 September 2010 (UTC)

In September 2010, also 8 days are missing in a line. Please Henrik, give us an answer! Greetings from Germany!--79.219.4.227 (talk) 11:02, 18 September 2010 (UTC)

Followup Statistics for Michael Sabo

Could you please have the August and September statistics for Michael Sabo on Identity Theft update from the middle of August up until today? Thank you.Seasons1987 (talk) 02:17, 17 September 2010 (UTC)

toolserver

Hi Henrik. Did you create this toolserver? If yes is it opensource? Benvewikilerim (talk) 14:45, 18 September 2010 (UTC)

I created it. Setting up a Subversion repository is one of many things I intend to do on the project. I will also add a free license to the code. Emw (talk) 14:56, 18 September 2010 (UTC)

statistics

Is it possible to get one tabulation for all the hits/days for an article? I am trying to understand what the long term pattern of interest is for articles I wrote. User:Jurriaan 6 July 2010 11:00 (UTC) NO STATISTICS POSTED FOR THE MONTH OF SEPT FOR MICHAEL SABO —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.138.119.141 (talk) 01:21, 10 September 2010 (UTC) Dear Henrik! Tell me please, why do not maintain statistics poseschny current project and main. depo (talk) 16:18, 18 September 2010 (UTC)

Traffic again and again

Would you mind refreshing stats, please ? It doesn't work, again and again ! That's a pity. Best regards.

IP, 18 September 2010 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.14.91.177 (talk) 07:35, 18 September 2010 (UTC)

Henrik hasn't been editing since March 2010, just for your information. Peaceworld111 (talk) 19:17, 18 September 2010 (UTC)

Thanks a lot ! But who is concerned ? Who is responsible for ? Really, that's strange enough...

IMP, 20 September 2010 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.14.91.177 (talk) 13:50, 20 September 2010 (UTC)

Rename an article

I made a mistake when I created an article called "Rise of lords". I would like to change the title to be "Rise of Lords" instead. is it possible for you to do so, because I don't have access to this function. Thanks a lot.

YL —Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.75.167.214 (talk) 00:40, 20 September 2010 (UTC)

No audience

Hello, it´s beena LONG TIME we see no audience results on th eportuguese wikipedia: http://stats.grok.se/pt/201009/Ad%C3%A3o_e_Eva. All articles lack numbers. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 204.152.202.174 (talk) 14:00, 20 September 2010 (UTC)

Yes, that's strange ! It doesn't work... and we have no explanation. Rather bad for Wikipedia.

IP, 20 September 2010 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.14.91.177 (talk) 16:53, 20 September 2010 (UTC)

Web traffic (yet again)

Hey Henrik,

Thanks for creating and designing the system to track wikipedia traffic numbers. I was looking through the traffic numbers for certain topics on the English language Wikipedia and noticed that for a few months in 2008 the user traffic to that page was 0. It does not seem to make sense to me that the page view for those months in 2008 would be 0. Is that possible or could it be a glitch in the tracking system?

Would appreciate it if you could get back to me.

Athena musing (talk) 20:46, 20 September 2010 (UTC)Athena_musing

That's a new problem, which has appeared some time in the last week. Data for January through June 2008 is missing. (Don't despair: it's available elsewhere, just difficult to get into a digestible form.) Emw (talk) 23:35, 20 September 2010 (UTC)

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stats.grok.se update.

Hello. Can you please update the stats.grok.se data? Thank you, --Patriot8790 (talk) 18:55, 22 September 2010 (UTC)

Wikipedia article traffic statistics

Dear Henrik,

I much enjoy the little graphs you created to show page views of Wikipedia articles. These haven't been updated since August. Can you reinstate this service or is it now dead?

Regards, Skeptic2 (talk) 00:06, 23 September 2010 (UTC)

• The stats still work for September it is only the pull-down list box that has not been updated yet. Until this gets fixed all you need to do is to select the article for August 10 and the tweek the URL by changing '201008' to '201009'. PeterEastern (talk) 08:02, 24 September 2010 (UTC)

Out of order again !

Yes, out of order again. Please, give us some news ! That's so strange... Regards.

IP, 11 September 2010. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.88.219.61 (talk) 06:48, 11 September 2010 (UTC)

Stats for Google missing Sept 9, stats for Yahoo missing Sept 9 & 10 Ottawahitech (talk) 15:41, 11 September 2010 (UTC)

stats are now working in most areas I have checked today. They resumed a couple of days ago, leaving a blank only in dates between Sept 8/10-Sept 15/16 . Thanks to whoever fixed them. Ottawahitech (talk) 17:58, 17 September 2010 (UTC)

I spoke prematurely - stats are broken again, at least at Yahoo Groups. Ottawahitech (talk) 21:08, 18 September 2010 (UTC)

The stats seem to come on and off on different articles at different times - why is it? Ottawahitech (talk) 17:52, 24 September 2010 (UTC)

I think the intermittent issues with page view data affect all pages. Have you seen an example of where this is not the case? Emw (talk) 11:53, 25 September 2010 (UTC)

Traffic Counts - Ichalkaranji

Traffic Counts of Ichalkaranji is not working. Plz help.-- . Shlok _{talk .} 19:35, 24 September 2010 (UTC)

Have greatly appreciated your Wikipedia traffic page, and thank you for creating it. Will you be continuing to offer it? Thanks, LoLosmp (talk) 22:04, 25 September 2010 (UTC)

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Still something wrong in the September 2010

Article Herbert Wetterauer was posted on 22. Sep. 10; it's not possible, that it was shown 6 traffics a few days before, as the counter shows. --Hirt des Seyns (talk) 13:28, 30 September 2010 (UTC)

Article Heading 'Ganit Forum (Khulna)' is not correct

The name of the forum is 'Ganit Forum Khulna'.In English: 'Mathematics Forum Khulna'. but i viewed that the title is not written properly. so pls change the name by omitting brackets. Thanks, K M Rabbani assistant professor, Mathematics Govt B L College, Khulna Joint secratery rabbani.khulna@gmail.com Ganit Forum Khulna —Preceding unsigned comment added by 119.30.39.49 (talk) 14:09, 30 September 2010 (UTC)

Wikipedia article traffic statistics "temporarily unavailable"

For a couple of days now I have noticed this text when trying to obtain statistics: "stats.grok.se is currently being migrated to a new server. Some data may temporarily be unavailable"

I have not seen any announcements about it here. Just wondering if anyone knows what is going on. Ottawahitech (talk) 14:33, 30 September 2010 (UTC)

pageview stats for frrwiki

Hi, is it possible to add statistics about Nordfriisk wikipedia (frrwiki) to stats.grok.se? This would help to give the small local community more feedback about their work. Merlissimo 14:43, 30 September 2010 (UTC)

Data for wikistats before 2010/04/01?

Hi, I've seen Wikistats at http://stats.grok.se/ . Great work! I was wondering if it is possible to get data of pageviews before 2010/04/01. Thanks! --phauly (talk) 08:03, 24 August 2010 (UTC)

The page view data begins in December 2007. Emw (talk) 11:09, 24 August 2010 (UTC)

Yes, thanks for your answer! Sorry, I was not very precise in my question. I would like to get the raw data about pageviews. I've read that your visualization takes data from http://dammit.lt/wikistats/ but when I look into the archived raw data, I see that the oldest available dump is of April 2010, see http://dammit.lt/wikistats/archive/2010/04/ So I'm wondering if you make a local copy of the data released earlier and if it would be ok for you to share them. Thanks! phauly (talk) 11:15, 23 September 2010 (UTC)

Yep, sorru to bother you again ... ;( --phauly (talk) 14:01, 1 October 2010 (UTC)

William James Wanless‎

Dear Henrik,

Article traffic statistics of William James Wanless is not working plz do the needful. plz help Thanks-- . Shlok _{talk .} 15:17, 30 September 2010 (UTC)

Questions

hi henrik, nice to tele-meet you. i have a couple of questions about your stats.grok.se site. i was wondering if you had time for a quick chat or a couple questions. if so, is there a channel i can find you on? thanks. --Parul Vora (talk) 20:15, 30 September 2010 (UTC)

Henrik hasn't edited since March, and may well not respond. Having built a tool at http://toolserver.org/~emw/wikistats/ that augments stats.grok.se by essentially piggy-backing off the data it provides, I have decent knowledge of Henrik's site. Perhaps you'd consider asking your questions here? Otherwise, if you'd like my input, I can be reached by email. Cheers, Emw (talk) 01:09, 1 October 2010 (UTC)

George KennethLucey Jr.

Ciao Henrik .... been all around you, but never Sweden. On the Article Traffic page, is there a way to see where they are coming from? Regards, George

Luceyg (talk) 23:10, 1 October 2010 (UTC)

Wikipedia article traffic statistics

Beloved Henrik,
(seriously ;), as your program is great help in evaluating possible relevance of articles), I just now notice that the languages to be chosen by dropdown menue do not appear by alphabetical order [I just now was looking for Polish].

I think it might possibly not be too much of an effort to have preset English as-is, but to list everything else of the dropdown by alphabetical order. Thanks, Wolfgang, [w.] 15:20, 3 October 2010 (UTC)

The drop-down menu is roughly ordered by number of articles in the given language's version of Wikpedia. See http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias#All_Wikipedias_ordered_by_number_of_articles. Whether it's better to sort that way or alphabetically is an interesting design question: the former should be more convenient for most people, but the latter should leave most people not confused. Emw (talk) 16:16, 3 October 2010 (UTC)

I_STILL_DO think that alphabetical order would be preferable in such dropdown, believing that
(1) not-very-very-many people use this feature,
...but, mainly,
(2) those who ever DO would hardly be aware of ANY other 'ratings' to be regarded.
-- How should they ever know, unless being statisticians???

But, do not mind, please. Best, [w.] 17:29, 3 October 2010 (UTC)

I'd just like to commend your work with "Wikipedia article traffic statistics" that is a very valuable tool. I'm a gardener too by-the-way. :) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Warrior777 (talk • contribs) 08:56, 4 October 2010 (UTC)

William James Wanless‎

Article traffic statistics of William James Wanless is not working accurately as Data has been changed now as I have noted the data this morning and now it shows something Deferent.Kindly help. Thanks.-- . Shlok _{talk .} 14:53, 4 October 2010 (UTC) ‎

Very much sorry IT is Working Well and I was mistakenly looking data of talk page. Very sorry.-- . Shlok _{talk .} 15:00, 4 October 2010 (UTC)

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Dear Henrik the page stats server goes like lightning now! Could you tell me what and how it happened? Did you get a Sun Unix fridge server? Would really love to know. Thanks again..--Oracleofottawa (talk) 02:40, 5 October 2010 (UTC)

stats.grok.se

Good day. I am writing a wikimedia bot library and think that using information from your service is a good idea. Can it be requested through the web as mediawiki pages? FIL (talk) 11:33, 6 October 2010 (UTC)

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There was an article i created and abrubtly deleted, i was wondering if you could recover the page India – Syria relations so i can improve it. thanks.Lihaas (talk) 13:32, 22 October 2010 (UTC)

Wiktionary traffic

Hello. I am a Wiktionary administrator. I very much appreciate your page http://stats.grok.se/en.d/201010/example that provides pageviews of entries of Wiktionary; thank you for your work.

If I may make a relevant suggestion, can you please add the option "Wiktionary" to the <select name="proj">? I currently, apparently have to edit the address bar, when I want to search for Wiktionary entries. Thank you in advance. --Daniel. (talk) 02:48, 25 October 2010 (UTC)

I'd suggest adding a link to wikt:MediaWiki:Histlegend, similar to what w:en:MediaWiki:Histlegend, Commons:MediaWiki:Histlegend, and meta:MediaWiki:Histlegend have. It makes it easier to grab page stats for a particular page. Killiondude (talk) 04:38, 25 October 2010 (UTC)

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Turkmen wiki statistics

Dear Henrik! Could you please add Turkmen wikipedia to "stats.grok.se"? I'm an administrator there. How can I add the following features to tk page histories? Revision history statistics · Revision history search · Number of watchers · Page view statistics

I'd much appreciate your help in improving the Turkmen wikipedia. Best Regards --Hanberke (talk) 09:18, 27 October 2010 (UTC)

Add the following code to tk:MediaWiki:Histlegend (translating it into Turkmen, though):

<div id="histlegend"><span style="white-space:nowrap;">For any version listed below, click on its date to view it.</span> <span style="white-space:nowrap;">For more help, see [[Help:Page history|Help:Page history]] and [[Help:Edit summary|Help:Edit summary]].</span><br /><span style="white-space:nowrap;">External tools: [http://toolserver.org/~daniel/WikiSense/Contributors.php?wikilang=tk&wikifam=.wikipedia.org&grouped=on&page={{FULLPAGENAMEE}} Revision history statistics] '''·'''</span> <span style="white-space:nowrap;"> [http://wikipedia.ramselehof.de/wikiblame.php?lang=tk&article={{FULLPAGENAMEE}} Revision history search] '''·'''</span> <span style="white-space:nowrap;">[http://toolserver.org/~mzmcbride/cgi-bin/watcher.py?db=tkwiki_p&titles={{FULLPAGENAMEE}} Number of watchers] '''·'''</span> <span style="white-space:nowrap;">[http://stats.grok.se/tk/{{#time:Ym}}/{{FULLPAGENAMEE}} Page view statistics]</span>

I've converted all the links and such to tk.wikipedia so you really only have to translate the English to Turkmen. Killiondude (talk) 16:49, 27 October 2010 (UTC)

Thanks a million times for your help! Best Regards --Hanberke (talk) 17:42, 27 October 2010 (UTC)

LOOKING FOR MARCELO DURAN

HELLO EVERY BODY, I AM LOOKIN FOR MARCELO DURAN DUVERGE. HIS PARENTS: ALTAGRACIA DUVERGEAND jUSTO DURAN. HI BIRD BETWIN 1860 AND 1865 IF YOU COUL HELP ME PLEASE,I WILL BE VERY THANKS

THANK YOU SO MUCH. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.200.219.78 (talk) 07:21, 30 October 2010 (UTC)

traffic counts

Hi Henrik, It seems to me that the Hebrew statistics aren't up to date. In most cases I get 12-2009 info, except if I ask for a specific article. e.g. [1] vs [2] (which was #40 in 12-2009). Also, the ranking per article is always the same as 12-2009. See [3] and [4], it can't be ranked 4th with ~1000 hits per month. And another question - Is that are way to get the hits data itself for an academic research? Thanks Liorkaplan (talk) 19:55, 30 October 2010 (UTC)

The last time Henrik ran the query to come up with the "top hits" data was in 12-2009. It doesn't update automatically. Specific article hits per year are calculated automatically (adding all the sums from the source data). For the remainder of your answers, I think you'll find the FAQ useful. Killiondude (talk) 21:14, 30 October 2010 (UTC)

Liorkaplan: While a ranking isn't currently available, you can get aggregate page view count (as well as average views per day and standard deviation in page views per day) over an any given date range at http://toolserver.org/~emw/wikistats/. For example: http://toolserver.org/~emw/wikistats/?p1=בן_גוריון&project=he&from=12/10/2007&to=10/30/2010&plot=1 has data on the page you asked about. (Apologies if that's not the correct one, I don't know any Hebrew.) Page view data is also available in tabular and .csv format there for your page of interest. Emw (talk) 00:48, 31 October 2010 (UTC)

Wikipedia article traffic statistics questions

Hello Ηenrik,

I'm researching the popularity of Wikipedia articles containing verious terms and I've come across your very useful page at http://stats.grok.se/. I've also perused at the raw statistics files available from there. I'd like to ask you about the meaning of the various fields in the files. E.g. the line

en.b Anatomy_and_Physiology_of_Animals/The_Skeleton 10 144185

I suppose 'en' refers to the language version, however I don't understand what the 'b' stands for. This pattern occurs in multiple lines with other letters following the language code. Do these letter correspond perhaps to other wikiprojects, such as wikibooks?

The last number (144185) must be the number of hits, but what does the previous number (10) stand for?

I'd like to be able to work with the raw data for reasons of speed and so as not to burden your server.

Best regards, Anthony J. Patrinos 10:48, 31 October 2010 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Patrinos (talk • contribs)

I assume you're asking about the files available at http://dammit.lt/wikistats/, which is what Henrik uses as the input data for stats.grok.se. In 'en.b', the 'b' stands for Wikibooks. The second-to-last number (10) refers to the number of hits, and I think the last number (144185) refers to the number of bytes transferred (i.e. page size * number of hits). Keep in mind that the data in any one of those files covers traffic for only one hour, as indicated in the name of the file.

Because it offers raw data (in tabular and CSV format) for up to three articles at a time, the tool at http://toolserver.org/~emw/wikistats/ may be useful for your research. If you'd like to automate the process, you can manipulate a URL to get quicker access to traffic data in a format suitable for your own analysis. For example: http://toolserver.org/~emw/index.php?c=rawdata&m=rawdata&p1=Deval_Patrick&p2=Charles_D._Baker,_Jr.&p3=Tim_Cahill_%28politician%29&project=en&from=12/10/2007&to=10/30/2010. You can also see the plotted data, e.g. http://toolserver.org/~emw/wikistats/?p1=Deval_Patrick&p2=Tim_Cahill_%28politician%29&p3=Charles_D._Baker,_Jr.&project=en&from=12/10/2007&to=10/30/2010&plot=1. Emw (talk) 11:45, 31 October 2010 (UTC)

Emw: Thank you very much for the clarifications and the tips for the other tools. In terms of using the tools (your's and Henrik's), I was wondering what an appropriate use measure would be. I've automated the process with perl for using Henrik's tool with article titles I've retrieved using the Wikimeida API. However, the terms I'm searching for appear in about 14000 articles. Running my tool for one month takes about an hour. Would I be causing trouble if I ran it repeatedly over the next few days? This is actually the main reason that I'm considering using the raw pagecounts instead of the online tools.

Patrinos 17:20, 31 October 2010 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Patrinos (talk • contribs)

The raw data files from Domas are quite large -- averaging about 60 MB per file, where one file represents data for all public Wikimedia traffic for one hour. So processing all raw traffic data for, say, a year would require processing about 526 GB of data; for the ~3 years of all available traffic data, about 1.5 TB.

Monthly page view data from stats.grok.se is available in machine-readable format at http://stats.grok.se/json/en/201010/Main_Page. If you were to pull in all available traffic data -- since 12/2007, or about 33 full months -- through Henrik's JSON service for your 14,000 articles of interest, it'd require sending about 462,000 HTTP requests.

Because it gives data for arbitrary date ranges and supports comparing up to three pages at a time, toolserver.org/~emw/wikistats/ could make it so that you only need to do only about 4,700 HTTP requests. The data is available in JSON format through URLs of the form http://toolserver.org/~emw/index.php?c=wikistats&m=get_traffic_data&p1=Red&p2=Yellow&p3=Green&project=en&from=12/10/2007&to=10/30/2010. Presumably the data would also be easier to process on your end.

To throttle the load on stats.grok.se, I'd recommend programming in some wait time between requests -- either between individual requests or between sets of requests. Emw (talk) 20:03, 31 October 2010 (UTC)

Thank you for the monthly page view data, it will certainly save a great amount of bandwidth comapred to loading the full results page every time and parsing it on my side for getting just one number! I will probably not require more than a few months for my project, certainly not the entire available data set. It would be nice if this API were public. I will certainly consider the other solutions you propose. Thanks again!

Patrinos 06:43, 1 November 2010 (UTC)

EMW: I've looked at the tool you proposed in your previous message and it seems almost perfect for the task at hand. However, I don't need the monthly(?) data, just the total number for the time period is sufficient. So the natural question to ask is whether an option is available to ask only for the total number of page views. This would definitely save a considerable amount of bandwidth.

Best regards, Anthony

Patrinos 13:08, 1 November 2010 (UTC)

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The traffic statistics tool is off for Feb 25 and 26 (4 days are missing this month)

The traffic statistics tool is off for Feb 25 and 26 (4 days are missing this month). Too bad ... Chassain (talk) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Chassain (talk • contribs) 12:15, 27 February 2010 (UTC)

It doesn't work

It doesn't work. Again. And we don't know why. Best regards.

IP, 13 April 2010 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 93.4.38.148 (talk) 05:54, 13 April 2010 (UTC)

• • Yeah, the stats are dead.

—Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.153.55.44 (talk) 08:59, 13 April 2010 (UTC)

Thank You

Dear Mr. Henrik,

Thank you for your development. I have found it very useful. I know we editors are not suppose to have egos, but it is nice to know from time to time that the world finds the article we research and help others with are for some purpose.

Again, thanks.

Jack E. Hammond

. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jackehammond (talk • contribs) 04:38, 12 August 2010 (UTC)

Your automod script

As noted on Hersfold's talk page your automod script seems to be working in on and off frequencies, would you perhaps be able to address this issue? Regards, —Ғяіᴆaз'§Đøøм • Champagne? • 6:04pm • 07:04, 3 November 2010 (UTC)

Statistics Tool

Hi Henrik, I did not find a way in Wikipedia to convert a link like Tom+Hanks into Tom_Hanks. Would it be possible, to adapt the tool to work with a link like [5]? Bye Simplicius (talk) 15:24, 6 November 2010 (UTC)

According to [6] Henrik made an answer here in Märch 2010... oh. Simplicius (talk) 11:59, 7 November 2010 (UTC)

offer of some sort.

Hello there, First of, wow, and congratulations on your impressive history of wiki-bassed acheivements. but i must, at least, try, Is there a posiblity we could talk. I would love to work with you on the project for the wikipedia statistics, and it'd be some brilliant experance (as the tool handles alot of data efficently) i am unsure of how many of these "offers" you get, but should they be worth reading, please do talk to me prior to rejection, I shall not list qualifications and whatnot here, as its not a job application, its more of, a first step. thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by AlecTeal93 (talk • contribs) 00:59, 7 November 2010 (UTC)