[Wikipedia-l] Mediametry survey (was )Re: Language versions' popularity vs. number of articles...)

Wed Mar 29 17:59:10 UTC 2006

On 29/03/06, Brion Vibber <brion at pobox.com> wrote:
> Miguel Chaves wrote:
> > Hi, I wonder if wikipedia only relies on this sort of external statistics
> > (like Alexa) to gather information about visits to the sites.
> > Aren't there statistcs collected on wikipedia servers itself? This would be
> > more useful and reliable.
>
> Not at this time. At our traffic level, web server logs are too large to handle
> comfortably without a dedicated infrastructure, and we've been forced to simply
> disable them until something easier to handle gets set up.

Is that "keep recording but ignore them", or disable in the sense of
turn off logging totally? Just curious...

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