On 12/14/05, Rowan Collins <rowan.collins(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Meanwhile, I think a version of this may actually *already be
implemented* in the software, but switched off on Wikimedia sites,
probably for performance reasons. See
http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=727 and
http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3128
Consider running a query on a local installation:
(
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_queries)
or running a query at
http://www.wikisign.org/ (although this uses
slightly out of date dumps), and then posting the results to somewhere
like [[Wikipedia:Most watched pages]] or [[Wikipedia:Least watched
pages]].
Doing it live would be very resource intensive, this way would not use
the wikimedia servers at all, and would be reasonably accurate
(depending on the frequency of updates).
--
Stephen Bain
stephen.bain(a)gmail.com