Category Archives: Wikistats Production

Major error in per country page views stats corrected

Posted on Wednesday November 17, 2010 by Erik

Before fix: Sep 09-Jul 10 / After fix   : Nov 09 – Oct 10 Unfortunately I need to announce yet another major correction on page views stats. This time caused by a bug in wikistats scripts. Reports that show page … Continue reading →

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Page views anomaly in October resolved

Posted on Saturday November 6, 2010 by Erik

For about 4 weeks, starting September 28, page view stats for Wikimedia wikis were highly inflated. Close inspection revealed this was an artifact caused by a software change. New code for page banner handling generated extra requests to the server … Continue reading →

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Wikimedia page views, some good and bad news

Posted on Wednesday July 28, 2010 by Erik

First the good news: there is new summary report for Wikimedia page views that presents trends for nearly all projects on a single page. Now the bad news: a few days ago it was established that the server that collects … Continue reading →

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Full history dump for English Wikipedia is back

Posted on Tuesday April 13, 2010 by Erik

Normally I do not blog about the arrival of a new Wikipedia dump, but this occasion is truely something to be celebrated! The dump at hand contains all revisions of all articles in the English Wikipedia (except articles and single … Continue reading →

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New statistics for the English Wikipedia (2)

Posted on Saturday July 18, 2009 by Erik

This post is an in depth technical coverage of the new statistics which were introduced in the previous post. Dump process In recent months dumps for all but one Wikimedia wikis have been produced with delightful speed and regularity. Tomasz … Continue reading →

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