User:Pageview bot

Function
Records the number of times a page has been viewed in the past month, to enable editors and WikiProjects to identify the most important pages (and satisfy curiosity!)

Operation

 * Retrieve stats from squid server:

Wikipedia uses Squid cache servers, which cache pages when they're requested. For example, if you enter URL http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitten and get sent the page, the next time someone goes to to the same page, the servers will remember what the parsed wikitext was and greatly reduce the back-end server work. The servers also count how many times a different page is accessed. These stats are provided in raw form at here, and that's where the numbers in stats.grok.se's graphs come from.
 * Grace notes T § 03:33, 15 March 2008 (UTC)


 * Store stats of page of interest on a subpage of the bot's userspace, transcluding them with pageviews or otherwise.


 * Pages to be logged are selected as those transcluding pageviews, or (say) WikiProject Statistics.