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

Thu Mar 30 20:51:15 UTC 2006

Loi,

I think, it's really good for the community that we have no reliable
statistics on "language popularity" and article popularity. Otherwise
there would be inevitable talks like "let's close this or that wiki,
it's a place visited by a couple of same people" (I've already heard
similar ideas about the wp-s edited by one to few editors).

In the recent environment smaller language wikipedias can feel like
really equal parts of the community -- and that's great. The same
about the larger language wikipedias, when the language users have not
come into the Internet massively yet.

Sl./ru:User:Amikeco

2006/3/29, Brion Vibber <brion at pobox.com>:
> 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.
>
> (If we were an ad-supported site, such statistics would be much much more
> important and we'd have put in the time and money for it a lot sooner.)
>
> > BTW, if we want to know the popularity of an specific article (not a
> > specific wikipedia), is there a tool for that?
>
> Not really, sorry.
>
> -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)

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