[WikiEN-l] Question about "External links"

Sat Sep 9 01:54:44 UTC 2006

Gregory Maxwell wrote:
> On 9/8/06, Akash Mehta <draicone at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I'm sure it wouldn't be very expensive. All that needs to be done is
>> that the external (non-interwiki) link code passes URLs through a
>> script on a server that counts the number of clicks to that particular
>> link and then passes the user on to the appropriate site, which would
>> probably be specified through GET. I'll code it if I have time today,
>> its very simple in php, and using a database means that statistics can
>> be generated VERY easily.
> 
> Turning every external link follow into a database write on Wikipedia
> is simply not going to be acceptable.
> 
> We don't currently log HTTP GETs for a reason...

   I was going to suggest log parsing when I first saw this then I 
realized from my own work how unrealistic it would be to do very much 
logging on wikipedia.

SKL