Steve Bennett wrote:
Actually now that I think about this, does this
actually sufficiently model
the data we want to collect? Are we interested only in "how many people
visit a certain page" and not also in "how many times a certain page is
viewed"? If 5 users spend a whole day arguing back on forth on Wikipedia
talk:Pokémon, is 5 or 200 a more interesting/useful/relevant metric
for that page?
Me, I think I'm much more interested in the former. Among other
things, it's an objective measure of something at least vaguely
akin to the elusive concept of "notability", and one big reason
for filtering out multiple hits from the same browser is therefore
to make it harder for people to deliberately skew the statistic.
The latter statistic -- assuming the argument takes the form of
actual edits -- is already derivable directly from the page
history, isn't it?