[Wikipedia-l] Re: [Intlwiki-l] screwy statistics

Thu Dec 25 05:19:35 UTC 2003

Hi Brion, thanks for responding to my
panicky inquiry...

From: "Brion Vibber" <brion at pobox.com>
On Dec 24, 2003, at 12:57, Jay Bowks wrote:
>> On the statistics page one reads:
>> "The Interlingua version has rapidly decreased
>> unexpectedly. This might be a temporary problem. "
>> Somehow the number went from over 4000
>> articles to 2800 and then decreasing over
>> each statistics check as if there are deletions
>> taking place.

>Who takes these statistics, how? Have there in fact been deletions?

The stats I found were at:
http://en2.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Multilingual_statistics
Paolo Castellina complained to 
me that a great number of his
articles were missing, I took it
to imply that these were deleted.
I tried to explain that witht he 
software and domain name changes
something may have been lost and
I'd try to inquire about it.

>Note that under the old software, administrative deletion of pages 
>would have left no trace and been irreversible.

Ay ay ay... well checking the dates on the
stats page the sudden decrease took place
before the change to MediaWiki software
and the Wiki was still under UseMod software.

>> I've already requested to have access as
>> admin which I had before the change over
>> to the new software.

>You've already been given it, no?

Ok, if so, is there a place to check
deletions? I got the uneasy feeling that
someone or something a bot perhaps
had gone berserk and started deleting
pages, so I was getting panicky about
it. How does one check for deletions
in the new software?

Again thanks so much for your help
in all of this Brion, and kudos on the
work you've accomplished in getting
the other than English wikis up and 
running on the new software, after the
initial shock that the capitalization had
made a lot of pages invisible to the links,
and many of us started changing titles
over there have now been good comments
about the new software. Overall it seems
like the site is quite speedy, and this may
perhaps only be a reflection of how many
are away for the holidays and not editing,
but things are flying... this is a good thing!

With best regards always,
Jay B.
[[User:ILVI]]