Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Mathematics/Wikipedia 1.0/Frequently viewed/List

Question

I am a bit confused as to how you choose which articles to include. Say, Coupon collector's problem was viewed 1,500 times in April, more often than the bottom articles on the list. Igorpak (talk) 02:03, 3 June 2009 (UTC)

The number shown is the average daily hitcount after the top and bottom 10% of data points are removed. The Coupon collector's problem article looks to average under 60 per day. — Carl (CBM · talk) 02:08, 3 June 2009 (UTC)

Even better examples: Grigori Perelman (16,725), Andrew Wiles (13,200), Terence Tao (9,000). What about these? Igorpak (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 02:11, 3 June 2009 (UTC).

The numbers are daily counts, not monthly. Compare Andrew Wiles and Albert Einstein on stats.grok.se. There are also several high-hitcount redirects for Einstein that inflate the count for that article higher. — Carl (CBM · talk) 02:27, 3 June 2009 (UTC)

I see. Daily. Got it. Thanks. Igorpak (talk) 03:21, 3 June 2009 (UTC)

2011 Update

This could do with an update for 2011. The 2010-12 top 1000 order of the first few on the list (in their 2009 order) is:

• 187: Albert Einstein
• 304: Standard deviation
• 472: Isaac Newton
• >1000: Galileo Galilei
• >1000: Normal distribution
• 608: Stephen Hawking
• >1000: Fibonacci number
• >1000: Golden ratio
• >1000: Definition
• >1000: Prime number
• >1000: Quadratic equation
• >1000: Trigonometric functions
• 443: Pi
• >1000: Newton's laws of motion
• >1000: Roman numerals
• >1000: René Descartes
• >1000: Quantum mechanics
• >1000: Pythagorean theorem
• >1000: Chaos theory
• >1000: Noam Chomsky
• >1000: Game theory

That makes at least 2 out of order in the first 20, perhaps many more. twilsonb (talk) 13:51, 12 April 2011 (UTC)

Should this 2009 list be replaced with the automatically updated WP:MATHS/Popular_pages list?

Don't know if anyone watches this page, but should this whole page be superceeded by a redirect to WikiProject_Mathematics/Popular_pages? Additionally, the page WikiProject_Mathematics/Wikipedia_1.0 states that an unspecified bot uses this page to update {{maths rating}} templates. Can/should that be updated? T.Shafee(Evo﹠Evo)^talk 07:42, 22 June 2015 (UTC)