[WikiEN-l] Why log page views?

Thu Jun 17 02:47:11 UTC 2004

I can understand page EDITS, but why VIEWs?
Mark

--- Fennec Foxen <fennec at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Jun 2004 19:21:30 -0700 (PDT), Mark
> Richards
> <marich712000 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > 
> > Why do we keep logs of page views by IP address at
> all?
> 
> Vandals? Vandal-bots? Sockpuppet detection? General
> protection against
> undesirable activity? To generate pretty webalyzer
> statistics?
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