Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/Statistics 2011

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I've been watching (and reading and editing) TFAs for some time now and have been interested in which topic areas and regions produce the greatest response from Wikipedia's readers. I've been keeping notes for a while and thought it would be useful to develop them into a running log of TFAs, specifically to identify correlations, which I have created here (with the most viewed TFAs moved to Wikipedia:Today's featured article/Most viewed). I hope other editors will find this useful. One thing that I have noticed is that TFAs relating to the United States or United Kingdom are very dominant - this suggests that perhaps there needs to be more work done on non-US/UK articles to bring them up to featured standard. Prioryman (talk) 02:27, 19 March 2011 (UTC)

Fantastic idea, well done for this, oh wait, mine had the lowest page views for the year thus far?! Oh well ....XD Casliber (talk · contribs) 05:04, 19 March 2011 (UTC)

Actually no! John L. Helm got the lowest and Rinaldo (opera) the second lowest, so yours is only third. The most viewed three so far have been Cottingley Fairies (100K+), L. Ron Hubbard and Star Trek: The Motion Picture. Prioryman (talk) 09:59, 19 March 2011 (UTC)

It is fascinating data to look at what piques folks' interest when they hit our main page. I hope we do do it retrospectively for earlier times. I'd get started myself but it'd be at the bottom of a whole heap of 'must do' activities... Casliber (talk · contribs) 12:31, 20 March 2011 (UTC)

That's the plan. I've made a start on 2010 here. I'll continue doing the months as far back as I can go. Prioryman (talk) 13:31, 20 March 2011 (UTC)

Past years

Yeah, I just noticed this and it made me wonder if there are any plans to make some tables for the previous years. GamerPro64 (talk) 18:42, 19 March 2011 (UTC)

I agree, I don't see why we couldn't go back to 2008. 117Avenue (talk) 21:16, 19 March 2011 (UTC)

I plan to do this. It'll have to be done in stages so bear with me. :-) Prioryman (talk) 00:14, 20 March 2011 (UTC)

Statistical oddness

I've not updated the stats for the last three days' TFAs yet because, frankly, they don't make any sense. Anthony Roll [1], The Revolution Will Not Be Televised (film) [2] and Final Fantasy XII [3] show no increase whatsoever in usage. Does anyone know what's going on? Prioryman (talk) 00:19, 20 March 2011 (UTC)

The dates appear to be wrong in the default view. When I selected 201103[4], I didn't get any results after the 15th. 117Avenue (talk) 07:55, 20 March 2011 (UTC)

The stat reporting is broken again. :-( That does happen from time to time. The good news is that the raw data [5] is still being produced, so we should be able to get some more data once Henrik's stats tool is fixed. Prioryman (talk) 12:17, 20 March 2011 (UTC)