User talk:Henrik/Archive 14

Thanks for your great tool
Thanks for your awesome "Wikipedia article traffic statistics" tool! Can you please add 201011 to the drop-down list? I really love using your tool, thanks again for great work. Innab (talk) 01:55, 3 November 2010 (UTC) Me too! I love this tool. --Lindi44 (talk) 09:58, 5 November 2010 (UTC)


 * Hello there, I just wanted to post the same query onto your talk page. Agree; a great tool – thanks heaps!  Schwede 66  17:43, 7 November 2010 (UTC)

Page view statistics
Hello Henrik, on 6 November 2010 Line A (Buenos Aires) was moved to Line A (Buenos Aires Metro) as well as lines B to H, and Page view statistics (Wikipedia article traffic statistics) is not being shown previous to this move. I find this service of great utility and very usefull in rating performance of articles and was wandering if data would be restored at any time in the future. Kind regards—Moebiusuibeom-en (talk) 02:45, 8 November 2010 (UTC)

Question about article traffic statistics
Hello Henrik. I like the tool very much and hope it doesn't disappear. I am curious as to 1 question. If a user reaches the article via a redirect, is that counted as a hit for the redirect, the article, or perhaps both? Thanks for considering this query.  My 76 Strat  16:57, 9 October 2010 (UTC)
 * I think this is discussed above at . Emw thinks it is counted on both the redirect's hit count and the target's hit count. However, I collected all the answers for the FAQ page from Henrik's archives, and so somewhere there's an answer about this where it says that redirects' hits aren't counted in the target page (at least, in theory there's a thread about this in the archive ;-)). Killiondude (talk) 23:16, 9 October 2010 (UTC)
 * I found henrik's answer about this: User talk:Henrik/Archive 4. I think that's where I got the answer for the FAQ page. Unless the page count technical stuff has changed in the last two years (which I would have no idea about), that is probably the correct answer. Killiondude (talk) 23:24, 9 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks for that response. I wish I had done better screening the FAQ prior to my question. In this case it appears I could have. Thanks and kind regards.  My 76 Strat  02:43, 10 October 2010 (UTC)

Suggestion for an improvement
( about the way to compare the statistics of "translated" articles ). Now, if for example I want to take this path ( I am French ):  (1) -->  (2), I must do this : (1) > "Al-Qaida au Maghreb islamique" > "Al-Qaeda_Organization_in_the_Islamic_Maghreb" > "View history" > "Page view statistics" > (2). Would it not be possible to "automate" the desired change by simply changing the selected language (of the "stats.grok" page) ?. Thank you. Blogbreather (talk) 12:10, 25 October 2010 (UTC)
 * I am currently augmenting http://toolserver.org/~emw/wikistats/ to enable that kind of functionality. At the moment, users can view traffic data on multiple pages within one project (e.g. viewing traffic for articles 'Yellow', 'Red' and 'Blue' within the English Wikipedia).  My idea for the implementation of your suggestion is to allow users to also view traffic data for one article across multiple projects -- for example data on 'Yellow' for the English Wikipedia, and its corresponding articles on the German and French Wikipedias.  This involves programmatically determining the title of the article in other languages via the Mediawiki API, e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=langlinks&titles=Yellow.  I will need to finish restructuring the application code for the visualization tool, too. Emw (talk) 12:39, 8 November 2010 (UTC)
 * I'm not able to understand everything you said (I'm only a "basic" wp-user and so only "selfishly" interested by the result) so I can only encourage and congratulate you.Blogbreather (talk) 08:31, 10 November 2010 (UTC)

leopold seyffert
I am hoping you will continue the page statistics viewers for my grandfathers bio (Leopold Seyffert) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Robert Seyffert (talk • contribs) 14:32, 9 November 2010 (UTC)

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Re stats.grok.se — no data for 2010-11?
Anyone else have this experience? The drop-down for months doesn't include 2010-11. I tried purging my cache. I realize that the service is very much beta with no guarantees. I'm just here to compare notes and beg for repair. I've been addicted to it lately for no justifiable reason. Anyway, Henrik, given that it's free, you've already given us more than we could expect, just by giving us the service at all. Thanks. — ¾-10 01:05, 10 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Nevermind, I just saw this, which is different from the FAQ accessed via a link on the site itself. I suspect this will kill my question. Regards, — ¾-10 01:08, 10 November 2010 (UTC)

Damage to the article´s audience
Hello, Henrik, The audience used to come from an article entitled História das Mulheres but adm Yanguas moved today to Mulher na História: http://pt.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mulher_na_história&action=history Stats now are dead!!!! They were growing daily and I was developing this article everyday with a few other people who are now lost without the numbers. CAN YOU PLEASE HELP??? 187.21.131.248 (talk) 00:29, 9 November 2010 (UTC) Tks
 * Is there a way to solve this problem? There are dozens of links to this article all over WP-pt...but they have the old title. 187.21.131.248 (talk) 11:50, 9 November 2010 (UTC)
 * I see now that old url still register audience; so should I add the new one (pt: Mulher na História ) + stats of the old url (História das mulheres)? Tks 187.21.131.248 (talk) 01:02, 11 November 2010 (UTC)

Traffic stats
could you explain the different numbers used in traffic statistics for me. My page is currently on DYK but I'm not sure how to interpret how much traffic it is getting.Joko123nm (talk) 22:05, 11 November 2010 (UTC)

Henrik, Can you please explain the Page View graph. How does it work (i.e. how does on read it)? What do the bar graphs represent, for example? In the Louis Armstrong entry there at the left there are bars marked 4.6k, 5.2k and above the numbers, 1, 2, etc. Then there's the figure 201011, which I assume must mean 2010-2011? Is there a history of each graph? For ex. if a person wanted to see how many viewed it in 2008? Thanks. --Cincinattus (talk) 09:40, 12 November 2010 (UTC)

Reading page view
Sorry for my recent question. I studied the graph more carefully and figured it out! 2010 is year, the next 2 digits are month. The drop down menu adjusts for month and year, etc. It's obvious now that I looked at it more carefully. My field (as you might guess) is not in mathematics!--Cincinattus (talk) 09:52, 12 November 2010 (UTC)

Note of Thanks
I want to thank you for developing such an innovative and useful means to track wiki-page use. We are finding it especially useful in tracking the increase in the use of our page over the last few years, which provides a useful measure of use for our project funders.

Such initiatives as yours are likely under appreciated so I thought to take a moment to say thank you.

George Nicholas, Director, IPinCH Project Gpnicholas (talk) 17:10, 12 November 2010 (UTC)

Hello
Agentindia (talk) 11:42, 13 November 2010 (UTC)Hello there,I want some admin to complete the article about Ivan Vihor Krsnik Cohar...

bonjour
parle tu français ?--92.133.249.114 (talk) 18:54, 14 November 2010 (UTC)

Your opinion about the new page
Hi Henrik I need to know  your opinion about the page SINDICATO NACIONAL DE TRABAJADORES DE LA CONSTRUCCIÓN, TERRACEROS, CONEXOS Y SIMILARES DE MÉXICO  please advice me. I'm trying to do all the necessary things to make this page functional and I'm also planning to add more external information and maybe make two different pages; one of the general history of Construction workers and another one specifically from the sindicate itself. regards Jose A Arias —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jose Armando Arias de la Cruz (talk • contribs) 21:11, 15 November 2010 (UTC)

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Unique
Hello, please stats refer to unique vistors or page views? Tks 187.21.131.248 (talk) 09:58, 17 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Page views, not unique visitors. Emw (talk) 03:47, 19 November 2010 (UTC)

Entry deletion simply wrong
Dear Henrik,

I am writing to you as I am very upset with the situation I am in... You are my last resort as you are a gardener of Wikipedia. After over 3 years of research in the field of body flexibility, I have finalized the process of How to measure body flexibility and how to express the calculated number... and yes - I added the term to Wikipedia - term called FlexiScore. To my enormous disappointment, I am now facing users who are ready to delete that entry. Please read my comments and my explanations on the discussion page of that entry. I am waiting for your input - I hope you could help and would support the term, which is new and it is OK to call it neologism, but that does not make it wrong... Ednoror (talk) 01:14, 19 November 2010 (UTC)

What happened to October statistics?
See for example: http://stats.grok.se/en/2010/User_talk%3AHenrik - it only goes to September 2010. TIA, Ottawahitech (talk) 04:45, 21 November 2010 (UTC)

Page view statistics information is great - congratulation
Dear Henrik, the Page View statistics site is great - well done. Even though its a BETA it's a really useful tool to gauge interest in various sites. It's invaluable actually. Best regards, Mark —Preceding unsigned comment added by 120.156.184.222 (talk) 11:04, 21 November 2010 (UTC)
 * YES absolutely, these Wikipedia statistics available on any article page through its View History tab are invaluable. It gives Wikipedians an idea of how big the audience is on any specific page. The fact that this service is provided by one lonely volunteer is, to me at least, astounding. Ottawahitech (talk) 16:07, 23 November 2010 (UTC)

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 * Huh? - I see under bug reports this heading: "Pageview statistics corrected and expanded" Ottawahitech (talk) 16:11, 23 November 2010 (UTC)

Academic Research.
Hi there,

I'm a researcher and I'm interested in looking into the stats data. Is there a way to get more detailed data, such as geographical region or what ever there is beyond pageviews? (of course, privacy is not an issue, not interested in specific ids).

Thanks! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.77.85.218 (talk) 18:13, 23 November 2010 (UTC)

les laveuses de Quimperlé
Saviez vous qu'il existe un tableau des laveuses de Quimperlé qui est signé de jean-jacques Capron qui est l copie conforme e la photo sur se site. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.44.76.84 (talk) 21:31, 24 November 2010 (UTC)

Russin Wikipedia Reader statistic
Hi,count of articles does not show results for November. --Kolchak1923 (talk) 09:37, 26 November 2010 (UTC)

French Wikipedia Reader statistic
Hi ! Impossible to get statistic for november. Please, Why ? http://stats.grok.se/fr/201010/Paris

--82.216.39.220 (talk) 19:17, 24 November 2010 (UTC)


 * Use http://stats.grok.se/fr/201011/Paris. Emw (talk) 17:05, 25 November 2010 (UTC)


 * I am stupid ! Thank you so much !--82.216.39.220 (talk) 18:33, 29 November 2010 (UTC)

But it doesn't work ! ! !--82.216.39.220 (talk) 18:38, 29 November 2010 (UTC)

Stats: Need to add November 2010!
You need to add november 2010 to the dropdown list at http://stats.grok.se/. Thue | talk 15:35, 26 November 2010 (UTC)

Wiki Traffic Count
Congratulations! It's great but not totally up-to-date (only up to Oct. 2010). Pr4ever (talk) 12:29, 28 November 2010 (UTC)


 * Why there is not an automatic prolongation monthly? --Geisler Martin (talk) 16:11, 29 November 2010 (UTC)

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Article Traffic Counter
What's about November 2010? --Hirt des Seyns (talk) 09:00, 1 December 2010 (UTC)

November stats
The month of November mysteriously disappeared, leaving only October and December. Maile66 (talk) 23:41, 1 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Help! Waiting desperately for November stats to reappear.  (You know you're appreciated when people notice your absence) Smallchief 00:52, 2 December 2010 (UTC)
 * I have never seen the November statistics, not even December of this year. That is a great tool, I do not want to miss. Can anyone help or fix it if Henrik cannot? Would be really great, thanks. --Sat Ra (talk) 22:53, 3 December 2010 (UTC)

November 2010 Stats Not Visible...
Dear Henrik, I think you have to drop the 200712 stats, the field is filled and the 201011 stats are not showing..(?) Thanks..--Oracleofottawa (talk) 01:01, 2 December 2010 (UTC)

Page view statistics is a great feature. I hope it never disappears.Niel Shell (talk) 04:31, 3 December 2010 (UTC)

viewing statistics
Dear Henrik,

First and foremost, I wanted to tell you that your viewing charts are a great tool to help improve existing articles (i.e. making them more attractive).

Keep it up if you can -and by the way could you try to restore the month of November 2010 which has disappeared?- and if I may suggest an improvement, could you give the option of choosing the date ranges so that one can easily make a detailed analysis?

Tack ska du ha!

med vänliga hälsningar, Chaanara (talk) 12:42, 3 December 2010 (UTC)

Suggestion
Firstly, thank you so much for the page hit plotter; it's great to know whether anybody has looked at anything I might have written. I much prefer your plotter to emw/wikistats.

Very often recent months do not appear on the drop-down list on your plotter. I suppose this is because it is necessary for you to modify the list each month to make the new month appear. However it's possible to select a month that's not on the list simply by editing the URL, so it must only be the list that's the problem and not the underlying collation of the statistics. So here's the suggestion: replace the drop-down list with two lists, one for the year and one for all the 12 months - that way it would only be necessary to update the tool annually (or less often if you included a few future years). Thanks --catslash (talk) 23:13, 3 December 2010 (UTC)

http://stats.grok.se/de/201010/
Hi, Wikipedia article traffic statistics end with in Month 201010! Why? --StromBer (talk) 14:50, 4 December 2010 (UTC)

Stats data
Hi Henrik,

is the data used by your stats tool available somewhere? I do not mean domas' raw data, but the processed pageview-per-day-per-page data. (I would like to create some namespace-specific toplists out of it.)

Also, sorry if I'm the umpteenth person reporting this, but the toplist part of your stats seems to be stuck in 2009.

thanks Tgr (talk) 23:14, 4 December 2010 (UTC)

month missing
Hello Henrik, Where has November 2010 gone?77.162.130.139 (talk) 00:44, 5 December 2010 (UTC)

Stats
Hi Henrik, the suggestion of Catslash may be solves the problems with the drop-menu. Could you please have a look at the top list? It seems, it also uses an older set of data to generate the list. Regards Mar del Sur (talk) 10:32, 4 December 2010 (UTC)
 * I see you have fixed the options to select the current month. Thanks a lot! But please also fix the selection of a month for the top list. Currently this top list is being always generated for 200912 and it is a pity not to be able to get the top stats for any specific month with data available. If anyone feels being forced to create another different site for that purpose would certainly be "less nice". Regards Mar del Sur (talk) 20:20, 5 December 2010 (UTC)

Hello from Russia!
Dear Henric,

Thank you statistic! 92.112.151.166 (talk) 14:29, 6 December 2010 (UTC)

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wikipedia clicks history
Hi Henrik,

I think your pageviews statistics are very useful, so thanks. What would be very interesting for my phd, would be to get to know the paths that users take during their navigation on wikipedia. know that people clicked on Pop, than Michael Jackson and then Nashville. That would be possible from apache's logs (IP-anonymized?). Is this kind of data available or do you have any advice/suggestion on how to obtain this data about wikipedia or other wikipedia-like services?

Thanks

Claudio Claudiomartella (talk) 17:45, 9 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Look into http://wikitech.wikimedia.org/view/Squid_log_format. Also, consider asking around in irc://freenode/wikimedia-tech.  Emw (talk) 14:34, 10 December 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for statistics page and update of available months
Hi, Henrik. Thanks (again) for maintaining this very useful page and, in particular for making sure that the list of available months has been updated. I wasn't able to get page statistics on your page statistics page, but I'm confident the figures are high! Niel Shell (talk) 16:49, 10 December 2010 (UTC)


 * Thanks, but.. what about the top list? Mar del Sur (talk) 00:38, 12 December 2010 (UTC)

How can I access the top 1000 page of other months?
Hi Henrik,

The default page contains data of 200912,but I want a different month —Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.120.36.241 (talk) 03:10, 13 December 2010 (UTC)

Indonesian Wikipedia Reader statistic
Hi,

I was wondering is it possible to see the reader statistic for Indonesian Wikipedia such as available in here, because we sometimes advertise this pages in our facebook with 2,000 fans, unfortunately we don't have feedback :-(

Let me know if it is possible! Serenity id (talk) 00:33, 24 November 2010 (UTC)


 * Data on individual page's traffic by different geographic regions is not currently available. However, you may be interested in http://stats.wikimedia.org/. Emw (talk) 17:13, 25 November 2010 (UTC)

Oh, ok, that link is not really helpful. I couldn't really read statistic looking that way. Confusing. Thanks man. Serenity id (talk) 20:09, 29 November 2010 (UTC)

Thank you so much! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.74.116.39 (talk) 00:10, 26 November 2010 (UTC)


 * Hi Henrik,
 * It's me again, I found a new way to do search manually. It really works see: http://stats.grok.se/id/201012/Indonesia. The page says that the article rank 6 in Indonesian Wikipedia page. We're always wondering the top 3. Is there anyway we could know? Thanks much! Serenity id (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 16:23, 15 December 2010 (UTC).


 * Oh my God, it was right there on the FAQ! *huge grin* Sorry man. Serenity id (talk) 13:06, 16 December 2010 (UTC)

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Query re pageviews statistics tool
Hello User:Henrik - I really like your Wikipedia stats tool, but was just wondering whether it would be possible, where there are redirects, for the results for these pages to be combined: I just tried Hillary Clinton and Hillary Rodham Clinton (been reading her Remarks on Internet Freedom!) and the results are different for the two. Thank you anyway for the great utility you are providing, BrekekekexKoaxKoax (talk) 00:52, 19 December 2010 (UTC)
 * The tool takes into account the URL, not if something is an article, disambig page, redirect, etc. I'm sure there's a way for a new tool to be written that measures if a page is a redirect, but since Henrik has been absent for the majority of 2010, I doubt that will happen with stats.grok.se! Killiondude (talk) 19:22, 20 December 2010 (UTC)

Edit stats
Maybe this has been asked before, but I don't recall seeing it. Is there a tool for Wikipedia as a whole, that would be like the individual user Edit Summaries. Such a tool would be interesting to see the editing traffic overall month-by-month for at least a couple of years of Wikipedia itself.Maile66 (talk) 19:16, 20 December 2010 (UTC)
 * I do not understand your question. Killiondude (talk) 19:21, 20 December 2010 (UTC)
 * An editor had recently made a comment that editor participation in Wikipedia is dwindling. That is, less people are involved and less activity is happening.  Ballpark - like maybe a year ago Wikipedia had a million edits happening, and in 2010, it was 800,000 edits.  I have no idea of the real count.  But I was wondering if somewhere there is a visual that actually shows total edit activity for a given time period. As as I typed that out, I realize that one active busy bot would affect the count more than any individual editor. Maile66 (talk) 19:26, 20 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Have you checked WP:Stats? I think Editing frequency might be an antiquated version of what you're looking for. In any case, I'm sure I've seen graphs describing the info you're looking for, I just don't know where they are gathered, off-hand. I think http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesWikipediaEN.htm has current data, just needs processing (to make into some graph/chart). Killiondude (talk) 19:32, 20 December 2010 (UTC)
 * YES! That's what I was looking for.  Thanks. Maile66 (talk) 19:37, 20 December 2010 (UTC)

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Wikipedia article traffic statistics question
Hi, i was just wondering and im sure you've probably been asked this already but does the article traffic statistics show unique users or just visitors per click? thanks Johnsy88 (talk) 20:00, 13 December 2010 (UTC)

Yes, it would be helpful to have a footnote on the tool page explaining what constitutes a "view". E.g., is a refresh a new view; is each query a new view? Thank you. --Rich Janis (talk) 07:12, 23 December 2010 (UTC)

Top number of hits on the first day of Did You Know Posting
My name is Terry Spragg. I was fortunate to have the help of Doug Coldwell in developing our site. We were listed on the Did You Know site for 6 hours today and received over 27,000 hits today. What is the record number of hits on a first posted site, and where do we rank on that list, in the top 20%, 20%, 3%, etc.

I've never done this before. Doug said that if we received 5,000 hits we would be doing exceptionally well.

My email is: Spraggbag@gmail.com if want to respond.

Thanks,

Terry Spragg

Peterspragg (talk) 03:28, 22 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Are you referring to Spragg Bag? I guessed from seeing the name Spragg in DYKSTATS. You'll find the article ranks in the top 15 viewed articles of all DYKs, ever (or at the very least since they've been keeping track of this). The list also credits 32,200 views to that article. Killiondude (talk) 07:32, 23 December 2010 (UTC)

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stats
Thx so much for this tool. Q: does it count 100 page refresh from the same ip? --77.193.56.195 (talk) 00:16, 30 December 2010 (UTC)


 * You're welcome :) Yes, multiple requests will be counted. henrik  • talk  21:09, 1 January 2011 (UTC)

Wikipedia page views counter
Hey Henrik,

is there a way to use your counter statistics at http://stats.grok.se within a Client Application similiar to the url access via http://de.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&titles=GNU&pllimit=500&prop=info|links&format=xml ? I'm trying to visualize a wikipedia search on a specific topic as a graph and need to find the top most viewed 20 links for an article.

David —Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.246.207.238 (talk) 14:54, 30 December 2010 (UTC)


 * You can get the data in json format by prepending /json/ to the url. (http://stats.grok.se/json/en/201012/Main_Page) henrik  • talk  12:25, 2 January 2011 (UTC)

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Stats by year
Hi Henrik: There is a way to see stats by year? and There is a way to see the stats of wikisource.org? Thanks for this great tool! Arcibel (talk) 18:01, 5 January 2011 (UTC)

Hi, can you all a range of time instead of just one month or say the beginning of the article to present time? Thanks Zabanio (talk) 00:42, 8 January 2011 (UTC)


 * It is answered in the FAQ (Question 6). You can also try this tool: http://toolserver.org/~emw/wikistats/ henrik  • talk  09:34, 14 January 2011 (UTC)

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thanks and a bug?
I love your tool http://stats.grok.se. I was surprised to see 410 people viewed my page last month, but when I did the search, I used lower case, and it found the data fine, but the link to the actual page up on the top did not work unless I used caps for the first letters of my names. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.44.251.29 (talk) 07:55, 14 January 2011 (UTC)

thanks and bug
Duh, did I give my name for the page (john travis)? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.44.251.29 (talk) 07:57, 14 January 2011 (UTC)


 * Thanks. I'm not sure I understand what the bug is though. Am I correct in assuming that you mean this article John Travis and these statistics? http://stats.grok.se/en/201012/John_Travis? (they show 410 views). Which is the page that doesn't work? henrik  • talk  09:31, 14 January 2011 (UTC)

Tumadoireacht user page
Given your recent interaction with Tumadoireacht, I am requesting you take a look at his user page. I had hoped that a day or two would result in a bit of reflection and removal of his minimally veiled attack on me, but it has not; moreover, he continues to make subtle digs at me and other editors in his comments on the HSB talk page. I had hoped that one of the two admins who have dealt with him recently might have noticed talk user page and taken action so that the rancor that will follow my having to ask you to do so publicly could be avoided. It now seems clear that won't happen, so I am taking the least aggressive action needed to address the problem out of sheer self preservation. I have no wish to engage the editor in any fashion, but the attack on his user page cannot be allowed to stand. Thank you. Drmargi (talk) 19:39, 14 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Thank you for your assistance, but the issue is his user page. Drmargi (talk) 00:28, 15 January 2011 (UTC)


 * D'oh. I meant to type user page. I blame you for confusing me. :) As you've seen, I've posted a request he redact it and will wait to see what the response is before removing the comments directly mentioning you (Unless SarekOfVulcan opts for a more direct approach in the meantime).  henrik  • talk  00:34, 15 January 2011 (UTC)


 * I know I did create a bit of confusion -- we're so used to dealing with talk pages that the fingers work by habit. I don't want to do an incident report because he's so volatile, and I'm not interested in going another 10 rounds with him.  Let's hope this will take care of it.  Drmargi (talk) 00:40, 15 January 2011 (UTC)


 * It was just a typo on my part, I meant his user page all along - actually I thought I did write it too. Thanks for pointing it out. (The part about blaming you was just meant as a lighthearted joke).


 * I think no small part is due to a writing style which is not very clear in communicating effectively, but I don't blame you for wanting to disengage. henrik  • talk  01:08, 15 January 2011 (UTC)


 * Bless you for the optimistic spin on the user's behavior, but from the POV of one who was on the receiving end, there was a steady stream of deliberately uncivil remarks. The user page is vindictive, insulting, overstated, and determined to both inflame and embarrass.  That's not a non-communicative style; it's just plain mean-spirited and ugly.  Drmargi (talk) 02:14, 15 January 2011 (UTC)


 * Thank you both for notice about this debate on my shortcomings. Its existence is in keeping with what I see as a disingenuous pattern of wanting to have cake and eat it. Perhaps ugliness is in the eye of the beholder. It is as difficult for a transcript to be "overstated" as it is for a cast photo to be "unreliable" but then I have had difficulty understanding these subtle nuances already. I had already  made a good faith excision of Dmargis details from the page before seeing this exchange. The "receiving end" is an interesting position to take. I, for one, am not ashamed of any of my remarks in the transcript. It illustrates a central stumbling block on WP.  Blessings ? As Tiny Tim said 'round this time of year - Bless us everyone.--— Tumadoireacht Talk/Stalk 07:25, 15 January 2011 (UTC)
 * I just severely trimmed Tumadoireacht's userpage, since hints and suggestions didn't seem to be getting the point across that this sort of catalog of other editors' failings is not acceptable here. --SarekOfVulcan (talk) 20:24, 15 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Less of a trim, more of a scorched earth Brazilian wax-ouch !-"whut we hav heer is a failure teh kumunikate"- Sarek always was a bit hard on poor old Spock- spock-puppets, like vulcans,do occasionally gobble meat--— Tumadoireacht Talk/Stalk 03:25, 16 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Thank you both for your support and attention to the situation. I felt the only acceptable resolution was removal of the offending section, and am grateful you acted as you did.  I plan to give the editor a wide berth from here on.  Drmargi (talk) 21:25, 15 January 2011 (UTC)

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pageview stats
is it possible to view where the views are coming from? i ask basedon the tunisia protests to see how many tunisians are viewing this?(Lihaas (talk) 14:15, 16 January 2011 (UTC)).


 * Afraid not, the data is completely anonymized. henrik  • talk  08:58, 20 January 2011 (UTC)

Statistics: Rank
I didn't find for which period you calculate the 'rank'. It seems to be the same for every time period, e. g. http://stats.grok.se/ca/201012/Esperanto ... Lu Wunsch-Rolshoven 14:45, 16 January 2011 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lu Wunsch-Rolshoven (talk • contribs)


 * Yeah, right now the rank is for dec 2010, regardless of which month you select. This is of course not ideal. henrik  • talk  08:59, 20 January 2011 (UTC)

Stats
Hello, your tool "stats.grok.se" is very efficient. A very good work. Have you the same tool for the Wiktionary's projects (the french one...) ? Anyway : thank you. Stephane8888 (talk) 10:33, 21 January 2011 (UTC)


 * Mais oui. It's not visible in the interface, but if you go to this url: http://stats.grok.se/fr.d/ you'll get the top list, and can click to specific articles. Just replace the last part of the URL to go to any article on the French wiktionary. henrik  • talk  10:49, 21 January 2011 (UTC)

Thank you very much for your statistics tool. It is very useful. I linked to it on a french portal : http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discussion_Portail:Records#Statistiques Lionel Allorge (talk) 14:41, 21 January 2011 (UTC)

Thank you, really helpful ! On fr.wiktionary : here and there. Stephane8888 (talk) 00:23, 23 January 2011 (UTC)

Joy
It caused me great joy when I discovered that you had closed the RFC regarding classified documents. I was searching for the discussion to reopen it because I'm not feeling well enough to undertake such a task, but now I don't have to.

Graphing article traffic
I would like to be able to graph article traffic statistics over a more extended period of time (not just per month), something like y-axis: page views, x-axis: time in months. Is this possible? If so, how would I do it for example with the list of cutaneous conditions? Regardless, thank you so much for your work on Wikipedia! ---My Core Competency is Competency (talk) 18:24, 23 January 2011 (UTC)
 * You might be interested in this tool's output of Henrik's data. Killiondude (talk) 06:37, 24 January 2011 (UTC)

stats
can you put the names of the users who visit on? RCSprinter123 (talk) 11:12, 4 January 2011 (UTC)


 * Name of Wikipedia users who visit a given article? No. henrik  • talk  21:50, 4 January 2011 (UTC)


 * Well, i thought it would be good to because then i can see who is visiting the pages. maybe this is a markup thing? let me know.


 * RCSprinter123 (talk) 17:08, 24 January 2011 (UTC)


 * It would be a gross violation of our privacy policy. Which articles you visit is private information, something you may not want to share with the world. So I'm afraid it can't be done. henrik  • talk  17:25, 24 January 2011 (UTC)

I have altered a recent block of yours...
Hi. This is not something I have done before, and since I acted without consulting you I feel you are owed an explanation. While reviewing the contrib history of User:74.3.128.130 I noted not only were they an educational ip address, but that they were blocked on 22 October 2010 (UTC) for 3 months - thus, per my edit summary, the last block had only expired two days ago. As such, I strongly felt that the tariff should be increased rather than repeated - so I actioned the sanction I had already conflicted with you on. If you feel that my actions were inappropriate and that your original determination was correct then you may revert my with my express permission. I do feel, however, that escalating blocks are the usual practice in these matters. Regards, LessHeard vanU (talk) 21:54, 24 January 2011 (UTC)


 * I saw - I'll have your bit for this! *lol* No seriously, no worries: I'm perfectly happy being overruled by someone with better judgment - 6 months is probably better. :)  henrik  • talk  22:03, 24 January 2011 (UTC)

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stats.grok.se doesn't distinguish titles that only differ by case?
Pulp fiction (dab) and Pulp Fiction (article about film) are not the same page, but stats.grok.se is saying they get the exact same number of page views, indicating it's looking at the same page in both cases.


 * http://stats.grok.se/en/201012/Pulp%20fiction
 * http://stats.grok.se/en/201012/Pulp%20Fiction

Why is that? Is there an algorithm that lower-cases the entire title before checking? If so, that would be a bug. Known? Thanks. --Born2cycle (talk) 00:20, 25 January 2011 (UTC)


 * Yes, titles that differ only by case are counted the same in the presentation. It has to do with getting slightly more accurate numbers without having to implement full redirect tracking. henrik  • talk  14:52, 28 January 2011 (UTC)

stats compliment and comment
Hello, I love stats.grok.se. There is very useful information on that page. My compliments. Being able to visualize the day-by-day changes to a page is useful, but probably not as useful as being able to visualize the month-to-month changes to a page. Do you have any plans to being able to pull-back and graph month bars over a few years? Also, is the source open? Thanks. ~a (user • talk • contribs) 12:08, 26 January 2011 (UTC)
 * You can view monthly summaries by manually altering the URL. See http://stats.grok.se/en/2010/Esperanto for example. It's also discussed in the FAQ (question 4). Killiondude (talk) 17:37, 26 January 2011 (UTC)

Wikipedia single-article stats
Hi, I would like to know where raw data for your stats app come from. Is it an open data source? Thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.23.48.76 (talk) 17:16, 27 January 2011 (UTC)
 * user:domas publishes the data at http://dammit.lt/wikistats/ . (Question #8 on the FAQ.) Killiondude (talk) 07:14, 28 January 2011 (UTC)

Sweden
How can it be original research when it says so black and white?. See:List of countries by future Human Development Index projections of the United Nations. Regararding the fact that Sweden and Zimbabwe were the only countries with a declining human development in the 2000s i urge request that you find another country in the survey that had so as well. |Here is the report. Best regards. Alphasinus (talk) 09:08, 28 January 2011 (UTC)


 * That UN report is a primary source, and the conclusions you wrote were extracted from it. Wikipedia, as a tertiary source, relies on reliable secondary sources to interpret, weigh and synthesize conclusions from many primary sources. A single primary source is one viewpoint, and can often be misleading unless you weigh it with others. And that is something we rely on reliable secondary sources to do. A single UN report isn't a good enough source to draw that far reaching conclusions from, you'll need to show that it was the mainstream view among relevant exports.


 * In principle, I have no objections to including some limited information regarding the future of the country's economy, but highly speculative projections decades into the future does not belong in the lead of a general overview article, such as Sweden. Perhaps Economy of Sweden or some even more specialized article? henrik  • talk  12:28, 28 January 2011 (UTC)


 * I understand your argument and i have to admit that i got a little to eager after encountering the study. Perhaps it could be added to Social issues in Sweden or something. What is your position regarding the developent of the standard of living in Sweden during the 2000s by the way?Alphasinus (talk) 13:14, 28 January 2011 (UTC)


 * Well, there is no Social issues in Sweden article right now, but Social Security (Sweden) and Swedish welfare exists (which are two articles that should probably merged into one btw). If you want to work on those, I'd be glad to lend a hand.


 * I have no definite opinions on the development on the standard of living in Sweden during the 2000s, but anecdotally I'd say that there probably hasn't been any major changes. Mainly ups and downs in conjunction with the global business cycles. Remember that 2000 was the peak of the previous business cycle (the dot-com boom) and 2010 was just out of the credit crunch, so given the two very different business cycle phases of 2010 and 2000, they're perhaps not the best years to compare. henrik  • talk  14:50, 28 January 2011 (UTC)

How can I find out the top viewed pages for any given project?
I love the tool. Keep it going.Vocalmusicpa (talk) 15:00, 4 February 2011 (UTC)

Great tool.

I would like to find what are the most viewed articles in a given category or under a given portal. The answer given in your FAQ under the above listing doesn't seem to work, I get the top 100 for the fr:Wikipedia. Is that solution limited to English ?

I would appreciate if you could put a copy to your answer in may user's page. --AnTeaX (talk) 11:37, 2 January 2011 (UTC)
 * I don't think Henrik's tool is built to do that. If the list isn't too extensive, you could input them into ~emw/wikistats/ to see a comparison. Killiondude (talk) 21:57, 2 January 2011 (UTC)

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Stats App
Hello,

actually, the stats app actually ends at January 2011. Because now it's February, I would ask for the possibility, that the popups (and functions) for the months became features for the complete year (here: 2012). I would found this very nice ;-) Greets --79.255.3.103 (talk) 09:19, 3 February 2011 (UTC)


 * Fixed, once and for all. I hope this is the last message I see requesting this :) henrik  • talk  20:34, 7 February 2011 (UTC)

Page View Statistics
The stats viewer needs to have February 2011 added. This is getting silly - just go ahead and make it add it automatically, either in whatever language you use to generate that page, or in javascript :). Or send me the source code, then I will fix it for you once and for all.

Also, it should trim the article titles, for when you accidentally paste "User:Henrik " instead of "User:Henrik". Thue | talk 16:31, 6 February 2011 (UTC)


 * Hah! Quite right, thanks for shaming me into fixing this finally. The months are fixed now, and I also implemented a show trailing 30 days as a bonus feature (replace the month in the url by the string 'latest').
 * At least Firefox seems to trim any trailing spaces from the url by itself (unless written as %20), but I added a trim too. henrik  • talk  20:32, 7 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Excellent - thanks :). I am using the Chromium browser, which does not seem to remove the spaces automatically. Thue | talk 22:01, 7 February 2011 (UTC)

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http://stats.grok.se once a question
Hi! Thank you very much for this tool. Could I ask you to advise me with some questions?
 * The first one is next -
 * these two pages  shows that the article uk:Ленін_Володимир_Ілліч had a huge boom of interest between 16.11.2010 and 11.12.2010. This looks quite strange - we didn't have any event that could inspire such arise these days. Could  it be a bug or something like that?
 * And the second one if you don`t mind -
 * is it possible to explore top pages for whole the year? We are most interested in Ukrainian and Finish wikipedias statistics. I would be grateful if this would be possible. Our interest is to arise popularity of projects. Thanks in advance, --A1 (talk) 17:48, 8 February 2011 (UTC)

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Pageview statistics
I very much appreciate your statistics tool at http://stats.grok.se/en/201101/  --Greenmaven (talk) 02:50, 14 January 2011 (UTC)


 * Thanks! henrik  • talk  09:32, 14 January 2011 (UTC)


 * just thought I'd agree with Jack Greenmaven without adding yet another section to your talk-page.Ion G Nemes (talk) 05:05, 11 February 2011 (UTC)


 * Me too. It means that contributing doesn't feel like wetting yourself in dark trousers (i.e. you get a nice warm feeling, but nobody else notices). Nothing more satisfying than seeing "in writing/improving this article, I've helped x people learn a little bit more". Cheers again, Brammers (talk/c) 16:14, 16 February 2011 (UTC)

Wikipedia Visitor traffic
Your wiki visitor traffic stats are really great idea and very useful, any more features coming ?

I hope you're still supporting it and will hopefully have place to keep it running for a long time to come, thank you. Xowets (talk) 23:23, 15 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Ditto on usefulness! I was just looking at them; what do the 'high-traffic' Special:Export stats mean? for instance for Special:Export/SynchronizationStartTime   and individual articles  ?  –SJ +  08:29, 17 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Another vote of support for the pageview statistics. I hope your work is a permanent part of Wikipedia.  Very useful.  Thanks. HowardMorland (talk) 04:38, 18 February 2011 (UTC)

Official support of Belarusian (Taraškievica) in Pageview statistics
Perhaps, you are already got on with it, but I'd ask you to add Belarusian (Taraškievica) (be-x-old.wikipedia.org) to the list of projects here. That would be really great! Thanks. Wizardist (talk) 23:56, 18 February 2011 (UTC)

number of views
Dear Henrik,

Could I get the number of views of a particular Wikipedia page (say for the last 2 years) in Excel or Asci format?

Very grateful Bourgaeana (talk) 09:33, 20 February 2011 (UTC)Bourgaeana

Is it Ok
Hi is the picture of my wife Lisa here ok as I see other sexual photos on this site Thank you Dave — Preceding unsigned comment added by Vtnl1 (talk • contribs) 04:12, 22 February 2011 (UTC)

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Page View Statistics
Hello Henrik,

I find the page view statistics a very helpful thing; thank you.

But something puzzles me about it. The first article I contributed seems to be getting a dozen plus views every day. This really surprises me, because the subject is not that well known. I see some days where the number of views reaches 45 or so, and I can understand that occasionally someone researches my subject. But a steady flow of 13-14 views per day? I have trouble imagining that there is such a consistent, low-level interest in the subject.

I wonder if some kind of routine visits by bots also get counted as page views?

VanArtGuy (talk) 17:11, 5 February 2011 (UTC)


 * Yeah, it's probably search bots or other automated traffic. I don't know exactly though, the stats doesn't include data that identifies the hits in any way. 20:33, 7 February 2011 (UTC)


 * For this reason is your tool useless. Is there a way to avoid counting hits from bots? Is there a better way to calculate the statistic? --Uranus95 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.234.128.229 (talk) 12:54, 25 February 2011 (UTC)

Pageview stats
I've noticed you've essentially added a 'latest' mode to your wonderful tool which seems to show the last 30 days.

I was wondering whether it would be a good idea to add a 'latest' in the pulldown menu as well, and make it default to that. Otherwise I find when I switch between different article's stats using the search on the page, it pops back to showing the current month, rather than the last 30 days, which I find a bit confusing and makes it difficult to compare pages.

What do you think?Rememberway (talk) 03:20, 25 February 2011 (UTC)

About wikipedia statistic database
Is it possible to aquire the whole raw database of the usage history for a possible masters project? I might be interested in doing a masters based on it depending if i could find something of interest from it but it is still very open.

I assume that http://toolserver.org/~emw/wikistats/?p1=List_of_cutaneous_conditions&project1=en&from=1/23/2010&to=1/23/2011&plot=1 and the http://stats.grok.se/ are infact using the same database with different kind of outputs? I can see many interesting things to be studied there, specially if one could determine the country of origin of the user, or the time a specific search is done since you can determine a lot from just GMT it was done in.

And yes i understand the database is enermous and that the computings involved would be massive. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.167.41.1 (talk) 13:51, 25 February 2011 (UTC)
 * I think you might be interested in reading the FAQ. You'd have to talk to domas if you want more info than is provided in his data. You might also be interested in http://stats.wikimedia.org/ . Killiondude (talk) 22:27, 25 February 2011 (UTC)


 * I agree with 193.167.41.1. I think it would be a tremendous boon for Wikipedia research if there were a full dump of the database underlying http://stats.grok.se available.  I imagine a data dump would measure in on the order of hundreds of gigabytes, but the WMF may quite possibly be willing to warehouse this data.  There is a page on this on the Strategy wiki: http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Data_warehouse_for_stats_on_content_served.


 * Constructing a database of page view data from 12/2007 to present from Domas's archives is certainly possible, but would take considerable computing resources. Perhaps this would be feasible using Amazon's EC2 and S3 services?  Emw (talk) 16:33, 26 February 2011 (UTC)

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Page view counts
People use the statistics a lot for assessing primary topics in disambiguations. Is there any chance of making the bot do this automatically, so that when a dab page is entered a table is rendered with all the page view counts in totals per month over a period of time for each page. Actually, I do not know how the bot counts redirects, but these would need to be taken into consideration as well as pages, I think. Snowman (talk) 22:51, 26 February 2011 (UTC)
 * I've only just found this - looks interesting. Please keep it going. Pretty please? Peridon (talk) 23:01, 1 March 2011 (UTC)

View statistics for a particular subject like science, medicine etc?
Could you handle to make statistics for a specific subject within a specific language? So that if I would like to know the most read article within science, electronics, medicine, enviroment etc.. I could actually find that out?

Practically I suggest it's done by select "en:" and identify individual pages per their "Category:xx" hierarchy. Exploiting the fact that categories have subcategories etc..

The rational for doing this is that subjects that is of interest of a smaller group gets drowned in the flood of mainstream subjects.

Btw, Big thanks for the tool!, esp now that /latest/ works for all languages.Electron9 (talk) 18:37, 3 March 2011 (UTC)
 * It sounds like Mr. Z-man's popular pages lists may be what you're looking for.  For example, see http://toolserver.org/~alexz/pop/view.php?proj=molbio&month=Feb11&limit=100&offset=0. Emw (talk) 02:51, 4 March 2011 (UTC)

stats.grok.se - slow pages
Hi Henrik. I've just been checking the traffic stats of some Wikipedia pages on stats.grok.se and the pages seem to be taking a long time to open (sometimes over a minute for a page to open). I'm not complaining, but it's been slow for about 12 hours (maybe even longer - since I haven't checked there for a couple days), so I just thought I'd mention it here to see if you already know about the slow pages, or if maybe it's been slow due to maintenance and will be back to normal soon? --- Crakkerjakk (talk) 11:57, 5 March 2011 (UTC)
 * On my system, the stats.grok.se time out before they can open. I've been unable to read any statistics for any page since at least 14 hours ago. It worked earlier yesterday, but at some point went "ker-plunk".  Maile66 (talk) 12:51, 5 March 2011 (UTC)
 * It seems like the parent domain of Henrik's tool -- that is, http://grok.se -- is also having trouble. Both stats.grok.se and grok.se respond quickly to pings, and the web servers are getting found in browser requests.  The grok.se servers may just be swamped with requests. Emw (talk) 13:40, 5 March 2011 (UTC)
 * The pages are opening for me most of the time, but they're just taking a long time (still at least a minute or more). It's taken so long that I've also been "timed out" a couple of times over the last 24 hours, but most of the time the pages are opening (at least for me), but they're just really slow.  --- Crakkerjakk (talk) 20:57, 5 March 2011 (UTC)


 * Someone was crawling the site at very high speed, tying up all the web servers - which is not a cool thing to do. Reasonable bulk accesses are fine, but in this case I had to block the originating IP. henrik  • talk  00:46, 6 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your reply. I noticed things were working fine again an hour or so ago, and I just came here to say the problem seemed to be fixed, but now I see you already know because you fixed it.  --- Crakkerjakk (talk) 02:00, 6 March 2011 (UTC)

stats.grok.se and the other project
Hi. Can the stats project can check also the other project (books, ktionary, news, versity, quote, source ... Thanks. Crochet.david (talk) 18:45, 5 March 2011 (UTC)


 * Yes. henrik  • talk  00:51, 6 March 2011 (UTC)

stats.grok.se shows days 2 to 32 now
Just today, I noticed how each month (such as /201011/) shows day 1 as "0" pageviews, where formerly, day 1 had a count, but now after day 31, an unlabelled 32nd day is showing a count. Looks like the prior data for days 1-31 is being shown as days 2-32 now. -Wikid77 21:54, 5 March 2011 (UTC)


 * Aha! Oops. Seems to be a bug introduced when I fixed the latest URL to show the last 30 days. I'll get on it. :) henrik  • talk  00:50, 6 March 2011 (UTC)

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Recentism tag
Hello. I am readding the recentism tag to Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant. The problem is not that the article mentions a recent event, the problem is that it is describing the event like a news organization instead of like an encyclopedia. For example, it says "the prevailing winds are blowing out to sea" and it should read "the prevailing winds were blowing out to sea".--v/r - TP 13:08, 12 March 2011 (UTC)


 * Well, that's fine and a point I can agree with. However, that is not what the tag says, or its usual usage. But a more important point is that an article like that will be viewed by hundreds of thousands of people over the next few hours: slapping a large editorial tag to remind a few editors to write text in the proper sense is ugly and does a disservice to our readers. In articles which are viewed by so many we should try to keep editorial tagging to a minimum. It's much better to remind people on the talk page (which I see you've done), or contact the few individuals who does it directly.


 * For better or worse, in very high profile events Wikipedia functions like a real time summary of news, something which many find useful. You might argue that that's not the role of an encyclopedia, but Wikipedia is a new kind of encyclopedia. We don't necessarily do things the same way as the old paper behemoths did. henrik  • talk  14:12, 12 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Alright, I can see that point. If you remove it I wont add it again.--v/r - TP 14:34, 12 March 2011 (UTC)

Update of yearly statistics, each month
Could you arrange for the whole year view (2011) to be updated the 1st each month?, even better if one could see a "/latest/" on a per month basis. Or even a 2007..Current_Year view. This could be running in the background using commands like idprio(1). Electron9 (talk) 04:36, 14 March 2011 (UTC)

Fukushima 1 reactor status table
Hello,

just to let you know, I've moved the table to Timeline of the Fukushima nuclear accidents. --hydrox (talk) 20:05, 14 March 2011 (UTC)

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Page deletion
Hi Henrik,

Sorry if you are not the right person to contact regarding a page deletion, but I am a bit lost here.

I recently created a page with the username: Optimax Laser Eye Surgery, and it was deleted because of the username does not follow the guidelines.

I don't seem to find why I am violating the guidelines. I chose that name since Optimax is a very common name for a business (there are some Optimax companies that have nothing to do with what we do) and is the only way to differentiate from the rest. I don't intend to create a commercial page, but is the only name I can use (Optimax is already taken).

Is there any way to get unlocked?

My email address is maria.rojas@optimax.co.uk and my number is +442073178632. Can you please contact me or send my request to the right person? I really don't know what to do.

Thanks a lot Maria —Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.207.112.162 (talk) 17:00, 16 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Maria, Here's the place to post your request:Village pump (technical)
 * -Maile66 (talk) 14:34, 17 March 2011 (UTC)

Wikipedia article traffic statistics
Love the Wikipedia article traffic statistics page

Broadcastinglive2 (talk) 17:41, 16 March 2011 (UTC)

Article traffic statistics
For some reason certain pages show a zero traffic statistic, although I'm quite sure that there was traffic (eg http://stats.grok.se/de/201103/%09Bucht%20von%20%C3%87andarl%C4%B1%E2%80%8E). Bug or what? Greetings --WolfgangRieger (talk) 07:59, 16 March 2011 (UTC)

March 16 stats
I think the March 16 stats didn't go all the way through the process. It looks to me like it shifted the stats so that the March 15 stats appear as March 16.
 * Stats for Jose Maria Jesus Carbajal This article was created on March 10 and had stats of 28 on that date. The stats of 45 were for March 15, and showed that way yesterday. See how the system moved the identical stats over a day, but did not add the stats that should have been for March 16.
 * As of tonite's update, it moved the exact same stats over one date. Now there are no stats for March 10 and 11.  The stats of 28 are under March 12.  And the stats of 45 are under March 17.
 * Moreover, it did the exact same thing on the Main_Page. The stats for March 16 and 17, were the same stats for March 15 and 16 the day before, and the exact same stats for March 14 and 15 the day before that. It isn't giving new stats - just moving the old stats over one day at a time.  -Maile66 (talk) 00:26, 18 March 2011 (UTC)


 * Maile66/Creation_Count stats This page was created March 16 at 18:16. One revision at 19:12. I viewed it a number of times during the day. Note that it shows zero stats.
 * - Maile66 (talk) 12:38, 17 March 2011 (UTC)

No updates for 48 hours

 * I'm having similar problems. I've tried several different popular pages (everything from Marilyn Monroe to Nuclear Power), and It's showing no updates for over 48 hours (and obviously, with the disaster in Japan, I'm sure "Nuclear power" has been getting plenty of hits).  It's showing the stats up until March 15th, and then nothing for the last two days (it's now March 18, GMT). --- Crakkerjakk (talk) 01:06, 18 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Same problems as the other users here. Statstool Off since March 16. Problem: I use this tool for check history and acceptance of articles after great article works. Hope, the tool is Online again in the next days. Greets --Zietz (talk) 07:42, 18 March 2011 (UTC)

March 19
Still no stats. -Maile66 (talk) 02:07, 19 March 2011 (UTC)

More indications
On Estacado, Texas I had 5,100 hits on March 2 due to DYK. Notice here, the 5,100 stats have been moved over to March 4. Estacado,_Texas
 * -Maile66 (talk) 00:38, 18 March 2011 (UTC)

Perhaps relevant to
Perhaps this issue is still dangling from: Here
 * -Maile66 (talk) 20:54, 17 March 2011 (UTC)

Norsk artikkel om selvmord - stats.grok.se
http://stats.grok.se/no/201102/Selvmord‎ Statistikken er satt til null, også for tidligere måneder. Hvorfor? Vennlig hilsen Runareggen (talk) 08:58, 18 March 2011 (UTC)

stats.grok.se
In the Norwegian Wikipedia it seems like statistics are lacking for all articles from S and to the end of the alphabet. Best regards Runareggen (talk) 09:06, 18 March 2011 (UTC)

No page views being logged
I have a couple of pages I'm watching and nothing's been logged for them since March 15. One of those in question is Mark Pittman, which was on the main page (DYK) on March 17. It has nothing whatsoever logged for March 16 or 17, not even a zero. Thanks in advance. Marrante (talk) 09:21, 18 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Noticed the same for several different articles, so it's obviously not a glitch just in the ones listed above. Hopefully this feature hasn't gone away cuz I really love it!  Awaiting a response/fix.Bobbyandbeans (talk) 14:40, 19 March 2011 (UTC)


 * I have noticed one page that is not being updated in the page views and which now also shows zero views in the past 30 days. This seems to be the result of that page having been recently renamed from "Aviation and the environment" to "Environmental impact of aviation". BTW, I think your page views charge is a GREAT feature! Coastwise (talk) 00:26, 20 March 2011 (UTC)


 * Lydia Cecilia Hill was featured in DYK on 19 March 2011 (yesterday) but the pageviews statistics tool only logged 16 views. That is very odd for a royal-scandal article. I look forward to when you repair the tool, which was so helpful in the past.--Storye book (talk) 09:04, 20 March 2011 (UTC)


 * The raw data is still being produced (see http://dammit.lt/wikistats/ ) so it looks like there may be an issue with Henrik's tool, unfortunately - it doesn't seem to be picking up the data. Prioryman (talk) 12:19, 20 March 2011 (UTC)


 * Wikipedia article traffic statistics - No page views being logged —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.96.118.40 (talk) 15:55, 20 March 2011 (UTC)

Resolved
It seems to be working now. Thanks! Prioryman (talk) 09:11, 21 March 2011 (UTC)
 * hi henrik. thanks a million for making your fabulous tool work again! cheers, Ca$e (talk) 09:41, 21 March 2011 (UTC)

Performance data for - stats.grok.se?
What CPU, frequency, memory & type, motherboard is stats.grok.se equipped with? How much data needs to be downloaded each day? and how long time approximately does it take to process? Electron9 (talk) 15:58, 21 March 2011 (UTC)

Monthly views
You probably already know but the page views by month for 2011 aren't showing. Thank you. <span style="color: #21421E; font-family: font-family: 'Maiandra GD', sans-serif;;">Marcus <span style="color: #CC7722; font-family: font-family: 'Maiandra GD', sans-serif;;">Qwertyus   19:44, 21 March 2011 (UTC)

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Afrikaans on your pageview stats page
Hi Henrik,

The Afrikaans Wikipedia is trying to assess how best to deal with its rather disappointing growth and your statistics are very valuable to us. Apparently they do work for our site but we have to put /af/ in the URL by hand. Could you put us on the drop down menu? Jcwf (talk) 17:26, 24 March 2011 (UTC)
 * You might want to put a link on MediaWiki:Histlegend like we do on the English Wikipedia. You could use this coding:  or a variant. Killiondude (talk) 18:47, 24 March 2011 (UTC)

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Nice to see rolling" last 30 days stats
I don't know how long it has been, but I see that page statistis now displays a "rolling" last 30 days. Nice work. Ottawahitech (talk) 13:20, 5 April 2011 (UTC)

Re: traffic stats reprint status
Henrik,

Hi. Do you know the status of reprinting a graph of Wikipedia article traffic statistic? I'd like to publish a hit statistic graphic in an article i'm currently writing about Fukushima.

Thanks, Rama (rchoetzlein) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rchoetzlein (talk • contribs) 10:49, 8 April 2011 (UTC)


 * Have you tried using print screen, then, say, pasting the image in MS Paint and cropping? Emw (talk) 11:02, 8 April 2011 (UTC)

help for statistics
Hi from Paris, Henrik :-)

First of all, thanks a lot for your statistics tool

wp:en

The_Beatles has been viewed 570456 times in the last 30 days. This article ranked 78 in traffic on en.wikipedia.org.

John_Lennon has been viewed 363894 times in the last 30 days. This article ranked 36 in traffic on en.wikipedia.org.

wp: fr

The_Beatles has been viewed 15059 times in 201104. This article ranked 65 in traffic on fr.wikipedia.org.

John_Lennon has been viewed 9264 times in 201104. This article ranked 47 in traffic on fr.wikipedia.org.

I quite accept u have chosen a different period for counting view times between wp:en and wp:fr.

My question regards traffic rank inside each pair : as this rank does not match with view times – in fact, it’s the opposite ! - what is your way of counting ?

As your way of counting is different between these two figures, may I suggest u explain it somewhere, to help the reader in understanding

Thanks a lot and best regards

--Bibliorock (talk) 04:32, 9 April 2011 (UTC)

Articles for Creation
I was told that you were the one to talk to about my suggestion at the Villaga Pump. If their response is incorrect, please let me know. Please feel free to respond on my talk page or here. Cheers. Dru of Id (talk) 21:16, 10 April 2011 (UTC)

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article statistics page
Hi Henrik, I like your statistics page enormously because I can control myself a bit. Now, these numbers of visitors, does they also include wikipedians, even myself? Nice to hear from you.--Cruks (talk) 21:53, 12 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Yep, it includes everyone no matter if they're logged into a Wikipedia account or not. Killiondude (talk) 06:07, 16 April 2011 (UTC)

M734 and M734 Fuze Wikipedia article traffic statistics
Your "Wikipedia article traffic statistics" is outstanding. My question pertains to reading statistics when two titles have been assigned to one article. The article titled "M734" was changed after a couple years by Wikipedia editors to "M734 Fuze". Anyone searching the title "M734" is automatically directed to the article renamed "M734 Fuze". Your Wikipidedia article traffic statistics are maintained for both the obsolete and current titles. The monthly numerical statistics are different for the two titles. To estimate the actual number of article viewings, do I add the "M734" statistics to the "M734 Fuze" statistics? georgelucey@gmail.com Luceyg (talk) 17:59, 15 April 2011 (UTC)


 * No. Anyone looking at M734 is automatically redirected to M734 fuze so ignore the page views for M734.  By the way,the stats tool is broken. Banaticus (talk) 20:24, 15 April 2011 (UTC)
 * You're kind of wrong. Page views are logged by URL, no matter if the page is a redirect. If they visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M734 the "hit" will be counted on that page. See the FAQ for more answers to questions like this. Killiondude (talk) 20:30, 15 April 2011 (UTC)

Una pregunta de mercadeo, como hersheys logro exito con su producto
Quisiera saber como lograron tanto exito a nivel mundial, cuales fueron sus estrategias de mercadeo, unicamente, gracias\ JUAN MANUEL CAMPOS DONIS GUATEMALA, GUATEMALA —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.79.75.131 (talk) 23:42, 17 April 2011 (UTC)

Articles' history pages
I searched your archives and couldn't find anything on this. Are views on an article's (or similar) history page recorded? I'm thinking not, since a history page seems to be a user-requested "action", but I was just curious any way. –  Kerαu noςco pia ◁ gala xies 22:28, 18 April 2011 (UTC)

Regarding wikistats data format
Hi,

I downloaded the one of the gz-compressed wikistats hourly dump. There are 4 fields separated by spaces. Can you please tell me what each of these fields represent?

Thank you Bala —Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.245.205.26 (talk) 04:57, 19 April 2011 (UTC)
 * That info is on the FAQ page that is linked everywhere on this talk page. Killiondude (talk) 05:28, 19 April 2011 (UTC)

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http://stats.grok.se once a question
Hi! Thank you very much for this tool. Could I ask you to advise me with some questions?
 * The first one is next -
 * these two pages  shows that the article uk:Ленін_Володимир_Ілліч had a huge boom of interest between 16.11.2010 and 11.12.2010. This looks quite strange - we didn't have any event that could inspire such arise these days. Could  it be a bug or something like that?
 * And the second one if you don`t mind -
 * is it possible to explore top pages for whole the year? We are most interested in Ukrainian and Finish wikipedias statistics. I would be grateful if this would be possible. Our interest is to arise popularity of projects. Thanks in advance, --A1 (talk) 17:27, 19 April 2011 (UTC)

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Wikipedia article traffic statistics display error
There seems to be a problem with the traffic statistics for some months. For instance, there is traffic on Feb 29 '09. Most months in 2009 are missing traffic on the first of the month. From looking at the raw counts for Aug 2010, I think the plots have been shifted one day into the future. Samesense (talk) 18:59, 27 April 2011 (UTC)

Wikipedia article traffic statistics
I'm contacting you to see if you can fix the page view statistics for "2009–2011 Toyota vehicle recalls." It was created in Jan 2010 but doesn't have page views until Feb. 2011.

Please let me know at mdistaso22@gmail.com Thank you. 71.58.93.100 (talk) 00:33, 28 April 2011 (UTC)

Are you okay?
I noticed your last user contribution was March 23, and since you're generally very active on Wikipedia I just wanted to make sure you're all right. Flatterworld (talk) 13:31, 15 April 2011 (UTC)
 * He hasn't been "generally very active" for a while now. :-) Killiondude (talk) 20:31, 15 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Thanks for sharing, but he's been editing on a roughly weekly basis. This current gap has been three weeks. Can you spot the difference? Flatterworld (talk) 02:14, 16 April 2011 (UTC)
 * His editing patterns have been erratic over the last year (or more?). Prior to January (roughly 400 edits ago), made a few edits in September, then it reaches back to March. The edits you were looking at are a bit more myopic than what I was looking at. Killiondude (talk) 06:05, 16 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Yes, Henrik has not been around on a regular basis on this page in a while - real shame imo Ottawahitech (talk) 18:12, 29 April 2011 (UTC)