Heinz wrote:
According to
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Relevanz the counter for
articles in the german wp is disabled. I would like to know why and if all
WPs did disable them
They're disabled on all Wikimedia wikis and have been for several years.
Originally counters were disabled because the updates to every page on
every page view were expensive on the database at the time.
When we changed the system to heavily cache page views, then the
counters would have become useless if reenabled because they cannot
count cached page views anyway (since they never reach the web servers).
(Besides that, the usefulness of a one-dimensional hit counter with no
listed beginning date or change over time info is debatable.)
-- brion vibber (brion @
pobox.com)