User talk:Henrik/Archive 17

Error?
Tried to go here and got "Internal Server Error. The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request. Please contact the server administrator, webmaster@localhost and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error. More information about this error may be available in the server error log." Which I'm speculating means that something happened in your PHP. I'm not sure if this is something on my end or yours or some kind of random fluke, but I just wanted to alert you to it. Good luck, Jessemv (talk) 00:23, 28 February 2012 (UTC)
 * The classic version still works, fwiw. Killiondude (talk) 00:40, 28 February 2012 (UTC)
 * So I see. Hmm. Jessemv (talk) 00:53, 28 February 2012 (UTC)


 * Sorry, a configuration error on my part (Hm. I could have sworn it worked when I tested it). How is it now? henrik  • talk  07:31, 28 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Works now! Jessemv (talk) 15:35, 28 February 2012 (UTC)

Blocked while using stats.grok.se
Hi Henrik,

I am a student and working on a project of indexing wikipedia. We needed some parameters to improve the indexing scheme, and we found 'access' frequency of wiki articles as a useful stat to boost relevance.

So, I started using http://stats.grok.se/ for the access history / page. But, since a while ago I'm getting following message instead of the data:

"Too many requests, please limit your service to 1-2 requests per second and contact User:Henrik on wikipedia to be unblockeddkagarwa@datalab-6 11:51:37 /extra/dkagarwa0/wiki/stat"

Is there any simpler way to just "get the access count for all the english wikipedia pages since last february". - The data in http://dumps.wikimedia.org/other/pagecounts-raw/ is humongous for my needs. - http://toolserver.org/~emw/wikistats/ is way too slow and does not return results for many pages.

Hence, I was using my own script to do it, but seems like your servers are not happy.

Please help out. I just want the access count dump for an year for en.wikipedia.org.

Thanks,

Optimistdk (talk) 20:17, 29 February 2012 (UTC)


 * You were hammering my server (in singular) from multiple computers, to the point where other users of the service were starting to suffer. If you do no more than one request sequentially with a small pause in between, I'll be happy to remove the block, but I think for your needs http://dumps.wikimedia.org/other/pagecounts-raw/ would be a better choice. You do realize you're trying to access roughly 1.5 billion points of data; over 48 million requests if you get data for one month per request? henrik  • talk  07:56, 1 March 2012 (UTC)


 * Oh, I'm sorry. I had thought the rate limiting was like 2 request/ip, so i was doing it in distributed way. I have stopped my script yesterday and would not do that now. ( but still imho, 2/min is way too slow to get anything substantial ). Yes, I am aware that there are around 4m articles in wikipedia. But, i want to access the counts for one year(in lumpsum, so only 4m dps). I was doing it monthly basis because thats the best aggregation it gives ( api like http://stats.grok.se/json/en/2011/apple give 404). I wonder why it calculates the aggregate sum for every request every time( access till yesterday is a constant value, so very month count can be stored statically ). Hourly granularity seems way too much. http://dumps.wikimedia.org/other/pagecounts-raw/2011/. I had tried raw but you see the size of every months data is 44.6g ! For a year that would be 535g ! I just need english wiki 1 yr access counts, so should be able to get that in merely 500mb file ( ). Could you provide such yearly count dump or suggest best way to do it. Thanks. Optimistdk (talk) 13:13, 1 March 2012 (UTC)

Recovering a deleted page
Hi Henrik! Is there any chance you could email me the source text of the deleted page "Map of the Past", please? Thanks! woody_marx@yahoo.com — Preceding unsigned comment added by Space Rodeo (talk • contribs) 14:38, 2 March 2012 (UTC)
 * I'll post it here instead. henrik  • talk  15:04, 2 March 2012 (UTC)

Map of the Past is the forthcoming fifth studio album by British progressive rock band It Bites. It is scheduled for release on March 26 2012.

Map of the Past is a concept album inspired by the discovery of an old family photograph, and has been described by the band as "a highly personal journey that explores love, passion, jealousy, anger, remorse and loss through the eyes of a previous generation against the backdrop of Britain as it enters a new century and one of the most defining periods of its history."

Track listing

 * 1) Man In The Photograph
 * 2) Wallflower
 * 3) Map of the Past
 * 4) Clocks
 * 5) Flag
 * 6) The Big Machine
 * 7) Cartoon Graveyard
 * 8) Send No Flowers
 * 9) Meadow and the Stream
 * 10) The Last Escape
 * 11) Exit Song

Personnel

 * John Mitchell - lead vocals, guitars
 * John Beck - keyboards, backing & harmony vocals
 * Lee Pomeroy - bass guitar
 * Bob Dalton - drums, backing vocals

Silicon Color
Hello! You closed Articles for deletion/Silicon Color with redirecting Silicon Color to itself. Are you sure it is exactly what you wanted to do? — Dmitrij D. Czarkoff (talk) 21:31, 2 March 2012 (UTC)


 * Gah! I swear, those two boxes are like right next to each other. henrik  • talk  21:35, 2 March 2012 (UTC)

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The Doon School Template talk
Hello sir, I request you to take a look at the doon school template discussion (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Templates_for_discussion#Template:The_Doon_School) which has been lingering on for days. I have tried to do best in my capacity. I consider your advice extremely important in this matter. Many thanks! &#91;&#91;User:Merlaysamuel&#124;Merlaysamuel&#93;&#93; (talk) 11:33, 7 March 2012 (UTC)


 * Deletion requests run for a week, after that an administrator who hasn't participated in the discussion will close the request and evaluate the outcome. henrik  • talk  20:24, 7 March 2012 (UTC)

Alright thanks :) &#91;&#91;User:Merlaysamuel&#124;Merlaysamuel&#93;&#93; (talk) 10:54, 8 March 2012 (UTC)

Yearly data
Hey Henrik. In this edit I commented out the instructions for reaching yearly data because it leads to a 404 error. Is this 404 error a feature or a bug? Killiondude (talk) 00:13, 9 March 2012 (UTC)


 * The old yearly data view was more or less an unintentional feature, it happened to work through a quirk in the code. I'm working towards expanding the range that can be viewed, to more than 90 days, but I need to improve performance first. So I guess somewhere in between a feature and a bug. :) henrik  • talk  16:09, 10 March 2012 (UTC)

Wikipedia ranking - Joseph Kony
The article for Joseph_Kony shows 4,269,692 views in the last 30 days, however it shows no ranking. The article for Facebook shows 2,863,949 views for the same period and says "This article ranked 12 in traffic on en.wikipedia.org". Just curious to find out how often the rankings are updated? Ottawahitech (talk) 17:44, 9 March 2012 (UTC) @Jessemv, this was indeed a similar issue in the older version. Nostalgia makes one forget, sometimes. :) Killiondude (talk) 18:17, 9 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Also, see how the traffic Joseph Kony has been peaking of late (most likely due to the Invisible Children videos just put on YouTube) but on the current screen you can only see the number of views for the last three days. Past view info is available, but my point is that if traffic spikes, the other bars aren't tall enough to show the actual values. You have to hover your mouse over the bar to show the value, and the bars representing 300-400 views are dwarfed by bars representing 2 million views, its impossible to see the actual value. This wasn't a problem in your older version. Jesse V. (talk) 18:01, 9 March 2012 (UTC)
 * The top rating is run (manually) like once a year by Henrik. I'm sure it takes a lot of resources to do that.
 * Actually, see how the older version has view counts at the bottom of the graph? Note the difference with the new version, which doesn't display said values unless you can hover your mouse over the bar. Since the bar is not even a pixel tall, getting the view count is impossible in the new version. That was my point. Jesse V. (talk) 22:02, 9 March 2012 (UTC)
 * I see. I generally use the classic version so my mind was more thinking about the visual bar. Killiondude (talk) 22:04, 9 March 2012 (UTC)
 * I hope everyone remembers that hovering is not available(?) on mobile devices? Ottawahitech (talk)
 * Thanks for letting us know that the ranking is calculated manually, Killiondude. If it is indeed calculated only once a year, ahouldn't it say so?


 * I'm almost afraid to butt in into the discussion ;) You can click the 'show labels' link on the bottom right, and it will show numbers for each day. Not quite as nicely formatted as the old version yet.


 * The problem with the top list, as Killiondude has said, is that updating it has involved a lot of manual work so it's only been done very infrequently. I'm trying to get that fixed though. henrik  • talk  15:45, 10 March 2012 (UTC)

Expert-subject
FYI, see these threads. thank you. Frietjes (talk) 16:10, 10 March 2012 (UTC)

New graph style - comments
Although on the face of it, the new style is more attractive, the old one is easier to read, by far. The gray bar against the white is harder to "read" than the colored one against a gray background, plus there is no longer an immediate grasp of the information because you now have to mouse over every single bar—some of which, if you have a really great disparity between days, (such as one day with 35,000 and the rest with 10 to 200) the smaller bars are nearly impossible to detect because there are no numbers to indicate their presence. In addition, before, you could quickly find any given day of the month; now you only get groupings by week. It is, as others have said, nice to be able to click through the 30-60-90 versions, but because I prefer the old information, with its ease of use, I use the "classic" version rather than the new one. Thanks for your work on this in any case. Marrante (talk) 07:32, 22 January 2012 (UTC)
 * May I add my opinion that the old style was more attractive and more ergonomic? It was easier to see the numbers at a glance when they were simply printed there. Now one has to mouse over each graph bar to see the statistic, which is a dreadful pain in the arse. I do not want to discourage improvements or useful changes, but I feel this change is a disimprovement. Is there any possibility of reverting to the old style? Sorry to be negative, but that's how I feel. At least I can thank you for the statistics tool, which is useful and which I appreciate. — O'Dea  (talk) 03:21, 23 January 2012 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the feedback. Out of curiosit, what do you think of this style http://pageviews.wmflabs.org/en/201201/Britney_Spears ?
 * I prefer the bars to the line graph, and prefer numbers to show above the bars by default to avoid the need to drag on the touchpad to click on the toggle link option. — O'Dea  (talk) 03:30, 24 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Printing number for each bar would be good, but it doesn't work well for longer time ranges. henrik  • talk  21:32, 24 January 2012 (UTC)


 * I like it, it seems to work okay for volatile numbers too. However, it doesn't degrade gracefully when there isn't enough data - http://pageviews.wmflabs.org/en/latest90/Toddler_bed only has around five weeks of data, claims to plot for 90 days, but only plots the five weeks of data (there ought to be a big section of zeros). Josh Parris 22:41, 24 January 2012 (UTC)
 * The line chart does show the trend well, but frankly, when I go to the statistics tool, what I'm looking for are numbers, first and foremost, and generally of the previous day or days, so the first version is still my preferred one because that's exactly what I get and I get it immediately. The 30-60-90 ability is nice, but for me, secondary. With the first tool, you had the date and the page count right at hand. The line graph is easier to read because of the contrast (blue against white "reads" better than gray), but you still have to mouse over and then you have to look in the corner for the numbers, again, doable, functional, but still not preferable. For me, the best solution would be to have the 30-day chart in essentially the style it had first been, with an option to click to a line chart to review trends over longer periods. Is that a nuisance to create? Marrante (talk) 07:27, 25 January 2012 (UTC)


 * If I assume that you're primarily interested in summing up the views for the one or two days on which a T:DYK entry appears, would that be a fair assumption? It's a perfectly valid use case, I'll think of how to solve it. henrik  • talk  21:30, 25 January 2012 (UTC)


 * It is a primary interest, but not exclusive. I do like seeing what an article appears to be getting as "normal traffic", also, a few articles that I've worked on have suddenly become newsworthy and have experienced surges as a result, so these are interesting to view, as well. The surges sometimes are days long, sometimes weeks. In one case, an article I had just improved became a Google doodle in Germany, so I was very glad that it's so easy to check other WP projects. Thank you! I would say that if you were to create a special DYK tool, you should keep in mind that authors may like to see the spikes that occur while the article is actively being expanded and this can last several days, plus some articles linger in the review process, taking weeks till they are finally promoted to the queue. I don't know if this means a special DYK tool is a good idea or that a button or link to the old chart is all that's needed. I routinely now click on "Page view statistics" and then just type "classic" in the URL if I need to see more. It's a very easy, if inelegant way of solving my problem. I do think, however, that the pop-up displays of numbers need to be easier to read because when they appear over one or more bars, you have a problem, a translucent field with light numbers. It doesn't matter how you fix it really, but it's very hard (and sometimes impossible) to read anything over a "textured" or high-contrast background. Thanks for all your work here! Marrante (talk) 08:04, 26 January 2012 (UTC)

Has anyone mentioned yet that the number of views and the dates cannot be accurately determined for those using mobile devices? (mouse over does not work) Ottawahitech (talk) 14:04, 25 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Henrik, I just wanted to get back to you and say that the toggle switch is a great improvement on the new charts. I still find the gray numbers a little hard to read when they appear over the horizontal graph, but otherwise, the new chart is now workable in the way the old one was, giving you that immediate sense of the traffic, not just pictorially, but in actual numbers. I assume this also solves the problems with the mobile devices. I had noticed the mouse-over did not work, but had not yet noticed the toggle switch, so I'll try that next time I'm on one. Thanks again for all your work here! —Marrante (talk) 14:20, 13 March 2012 (UTC)

Cuisinart counts seem wrong
Cuisinart was only edited four times last year, it has seven sentences, 1.7 KB, 2 refs, 2 ELs, a photo, and a navbox. How can it possibly get a million hits per month?

It's not consistent with the 5 AFT reviews the article's received. Josh Parris 13:28, 12 March 2012 (UTC)


 * I found this in the hourly squid log data, so I also asked at User talk:Midom and pinged Domas on IRC. Npmay (talk) 22:18, 12 March 2012 (UTC)


 * Someone seems to have fun rapidly reloading that page for whatever reason (a good use of the Foundation's limited hardware budget). There's no way to filter out this in the aggregated data which is published in the dumps. You could do it at the source, but it'd be pretty resource intensive. henrik  • talk  14:40, 13 March 2012 (UTC)

Hiccup?
I started a new article the day before yesterday and often check the traffic on those early days. Yesterday, it said something like 20 or 40. Today, that bar is gone and instead, I get three non-consecutive days with one hit each. Strange, eh? The article is Heinz Pehlke. Thanks! —Marrante (talk) 14:23, 13 March 2012 (UTC)


 * The stats service is currently recovering from a hardware hickup, I'm waiting for a raid sync to finish before processing new data. Check again in a day or two! henrik  • talk  14:36, 13 March 2012 (UTC)

Wheel doughnut
Hi Henrik. I notice that as a result of this deletion discussion, you recently deleted Wheel doughnut. Would it be appropriate to also delete the redirect, Wheel Doughnut? Regards. DH85868993 (talk) 01:29, 14 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Never mind. Someone else already deleted it. Regards. DH85868993 (talk) 02:51, 14 March 2012 (UTC)

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http://stats.grok.se/id/top not updated anymore? William Surya Permana (talk) 03:55, 18 March 2012 (UTC)

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February stats missing
Hi Henrik. When we had what you referred to a hiccup a couple of weeks ago, did we lose a month of stats? Check any page, like the WP main page, and the entire month of February seems to have disappeared from the stats. Maile66 (talk) 14:54, 23 March 2012 (UTC)


 * Oops. No, it was a compaction job gone wrong. Should be fixed now, thanks for letting me know :) henrik  • talk  15:00, 23 March 2012 (UTC)
 * You have magic fingers.Maile66 (talk) 15:05, 23 March 2012 (UTC)

The 'new' look
While I appreciate the new features in the stat's I have to tell ya, the graphics leave much to be desired. Lose that shadow effect. Tacky. That went out with ascii graphics and obscures the graph detail. Some color would be nice. The graphic format used before was much better. Can't we use it with the new features? -- Gwillhickers (talk) 08:32, 24 March 2012 (UTC)

Articles for deletion/Manning Bowl (American football)
Hi, I was a little surprised that you closed the discussion as delete rather than no consensus. Would you mind taking a second look at the discussion and/or clarifying your position? I think a lot of the coverage goes well beyond that which you would expect for any game. For example: and  would clearly not have been written if not for the fact that the two brothers were facing off. Also, the way that the sources talk about the games (for example "To most of the football world, Peyton vs. Eli, The Rematch, is one of this season's feature attractions.", "the much-hyped battle of the brothers", "much-hyped original “Manning Bowl,”", "becoming the first siblings in N.F.L. history to start as opposing quarterbacks") seems to me to be pretty solid indicators of notability. Cheers / Pax:Vobiscum (talk) 11:37, 24 March 2012 (UTC)


 * Hi. I was very, very close to a no consensus close (it was a border-line case, which was a few days overdue for close, so I imagine others have looked at it as well). The keeps mainly argued that it had received sufficient coverage, the deletes argued that while there was coverage, it didn't meet the thresholds for lasting effects and duration of coverage. In the end i felt the latter argument was (slightly) more persuasive and along with Articles for deletion/Harbaugh Bowl, enough to push it into the delete column. Barely.  henrik  • talk  14:57, 24 March 2012 (UTC)

Adding more languages to http://stats.grok.se
Hi,

Is it possible to add more languages to http://stats.grok.se ? I am particularly curious about Punjabi (language code pa), but it would be useful to have all of them.

Thank you. --Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 15:19, 25 March 2012 (UTC)


 * Stats for all languages exist, but they're not all selectable in the user interface to make it less unwieldy. But if you change the url to point to the right language code, you can see the result for every Wikipedia project. Example: http://stats.grok.se/pa/latest/ਮੁੱਖ_ਪੰਨਾ   henrik  • talk  15:28, 25 March 2012 (UTC)

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IBAN discussion
Hi. Since you commented at the AE request, in light of User:Timotheus Canens comments there, please see the discussion here (related to my comment here ). Volunteer Marek  16:21, 28 March 2012 (UTC)

Xeno acting as an Arb
You noted in the AE that I reverted an Arb. As per User_talk:Xeno, he states that he was acting only as another editor, not in his Arb role.

Also, please read my statement, which I have now posted. Your suggestion of a 6 month ban is especially over the top, given that I have further evidence to post once I have finished dealing with the homophobic attacks on myself. There is no rush at AE -- as the NKR discussion demonstrates.

Also, you might like to take a look at the satirical version of my AE request at User:Russavia/PolandballAE -- you don't take the Sveaball jokes offensive do you? Or do you? Russavia ლ(ಠ益ಠლ) 13:25, 29 March 2012 (UTC)


 * My apologies; I didn't think he acted in an official capacity either, but perhaps that was unclear. I meant it as a shorthand as a respected user, with generally proven good judgment, but I can see that it could be interpreted that way.


 * I agree that there is no rush at AE, I'm happy to await consensus to develop. I would rather wait a few days extra than imposing something indecorous or not allow you a full chance to make your reasoning clear.


 * No, I don't find Sveaball to particularly offensive :) But you and I don't have a history that would make me to think you're deliberately trying to get under my skin. If someone with long standing conflicts with, for example, red haired editors and is under interaction restrictions with said red haired editors prominently posts a cartoon that depicts red headed editors as vandals sitting on a toilet sprouting feces, "it's only humor" sounds a bit thin, don't you think? My first preference would be for that editor to come to an understanding with those he had conflicts with, to understand each others viewpoints and find common ground. My second preference, should that prove impossible, would be for those editors to ignore each other and not let the conflict flare up. My third, and by far, distant choice is to remove those editors who can not do that from the discussion. henrik  • talk  20:44, 29 March 2012 (UTC)


 * Henrik, I have made it a point to stay away from these editors -- I don't check their contributions, I don't watch their talkpages, I don't get involved their disputes (which even without me, they get into -- read Malick78's comments for example). I do my own thing on WP -- in the words of Lothar -- to be frank, I DGAF (don't give a f') what they do in their editing. In the words of Marek, I stay the f' away from them. Please read my statement in full, don't waiting for anything further -- if anything else, you will only see more posts from editors from Wikipediareview/Wikipediaforum with a grudge against myself (read my statement please) -- many of the people on the AfD are members of these forums. I am disengaging as of now, I am no longer taking the bait that these people throw out, because I have too much predictability (to quote Marek) -- we all know that, and the fuckhead that I am, I take it -- giving people the ammunition to use against me. I'm my own worst enemy sometimes I guess. There are only two people in that entire "discussion" who are not actually involved with me -- Malick78 (although I have had words with him over civility in the past) and Skapperod. Both of these editors comments are also worth reading.


 * Everything in my statement is sincere and accurate (especially relating to the userpage). I acknowledge I was wrong to have reverted Marek, and I am not going to wikilawyer or try to change IBAN policy in the midst of discussion or rally the troops to come and defend me. I know I would be better off doing the latter, but I am an honest editor. People say don't admit fault, because it makes you appear weak -- I say f' that, admit when you're wrong, and cop it on the chin like a man.


 * I have posted to EdJohnston's talk page, and he has agreed to allow me to report to him of any future interaction ban breaches, which means I won't be baited into reverting, and it keeps the drama off AE. That is a good solution.


 * I have asked T. Canens to go ahead and implement any block. I am happy for you to go ahead over his head, and block me for whatever period you like, and for you to shut down the AE request with no action against any other editor (even though you have stated yourself they have breached their bans). If you think T. Canens suggested 2 week block is fine, go ahead. If you want to block me for a year, go ahead. The latter might be a good choice, if you want to see the off-wiki lulz afterwards.


 * All that I ask is that you put everything you thought previously out of your head, read my statements at AE and assume nothing but good faith on my part, and you do what you think is fair.


 * I am going offline for a day, so when I come back, I will be expecting to be blocked by either yourself or T. Canens.


 * Thanks, Russavia ლ(ಠ益ಠლ) 21:32, 29 March 2012 (UTC)


 * P.S. Most of my 7 blocks are what T. Canens has called "EEML tainted". Whether you take into that account or not, it is totally up to you. Just do what is fair is all I ask.

toggle labels default
Hi. I enjoy looking at article page view stats sometimes – it would be really great if the "toggle labels" default could be set to 'on' at the user level. (Instead of now, where "toggle labels" = 'off' is default, requiring a click every time, to change it.) Thx for your consider! Ihardlythinkso (talk) 03:02, 1 April 2012 (UTC)

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Help with page view statistics on Cheyenne Wikipedia
Hello Henrik! We could use your help over on the Cheyenne Wikipedia. We are just in the process of bringing this wiki to life, and it would be good to know which pages are most important to work on. User:Amqui suggests that you are the person to contact about this. How do we tell which pages are getting the most page views? Djembayz (talk) 00:15, 15 April 2012 (UTC)

statistics for a group of articles
It would be really lovely if one could get statistics for all articles in a particular category. For example it is interesting to see how many views in total the Yahoo suite of articles is getting.

Is this doable? Ottawahitech (talk) 00:36, 16 April 2012 (UTC)

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Stats missing for May 10
Guess you already know the May 10 stats have not been posted, since there seemed to be some glitch about 12 hours ago when we couldn't pull up anything. Maile66 (talk) 11:39, 11 May 2012 (UTC)

Stats missing for May 11
The May 11 stats have not been posted. Out of order ? Thanks a lot for your answer.

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Updating top 1000
Dear Henrik, thanks again for your great statistics tool. Would you please update the "Top list for English Wikipedia"? (i.e. http://stats.grok.se/en/top ) It is very interesting statistics, but has not been updated since 2010. I think many Wiki editors would appreciate a refresh. Innab (talk) 18:10, 17 May 2012 (UTC) P.S. Cookies promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. Innab (talk) 18:11, 17 May 2012 (UTC)
 * As I mention just above the title Wikipedia_talk:Modelling_Wikipedia's_growth,

I find the Page View statistics to be extremely useful; I'd like to see them officially supported by Wikipedia, and a history of total Page View statistics made available. This would show how Wikipedia traffic is growing year on year. It would also be useful to be able to download a list showing at least the most popular and least popular pages. Improving the most popular pages improves the Wikipedia experience for the largest number of people. Conversely, knowing which pages are currently not relevant or useful to a majority of people is also useful information -- they could be flagged as needing improvement, and maybe deleted if they are not improved. LittleBen (talk) 01:23, 5 June 2012 (UTC)

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Article about Traffic-Tool in German-WP "Kurier"
Hi Henrik,

Follow the Link to read an article about your famous Traffic-Tool in the ‘Kurier’, the Community Bulletin in the German Wikipedia. For translate in English, I prefer the Google Machine ;-) --Zietz (talk) 14:19, 8 June 2012 (UTC)

Pageview stats
Dear Henrik, is there a possibility to count all the pageviews from the creation of an article until now? Thank you --Artemide81 (talk) 15:33, 8 June 2012 (UTC)

Leopold Seyffert's stats
Hello henrik I am wondering what happened to "leopold seyffert" stats for May?

Robert — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.14.202.167 (talk) 22:36, 10 June 2012 (UTC)

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References needed (Dano-Swedish War (1658–1660))
This article needs some refs added for it to maintain its GA status. --<sub style="border:1px solid #228B22;padding:1px;">Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 11:08, 14 June 2012 (UTC)

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Hello! Can you take a look here, please? Thanks in advance. - Green Yoshi talk page · contributions 12:08, 17 June 2012 (UTC)

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Hi, I was interested in the summation of page counts per title per month or year as opposed to per hour. I see that http://stats.grok.se/ has visualizations of the data per day. Are title page counts available per month or year?

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Toolserver requesting json data from stats.grok.se
Hi Henrik,

I'm trying to access json data by a script running on toolserver.org. I get an answer to request after at least 10 seconds, when I try that from another machine it only takes less than a second. Also this only applies to the json interface while the HTML representation is also loaded in far less than a second. Are the requests from the toolservers limited in some way?

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 * I have a data visualization/analytics tool on Toolserver (http://toolserver.org/~emw/wikistats/) that uses Henrik's JSON API and I don't seem to have this problem. However, I've been using the legacy JSON API (e.g. http://stats-classic.grok.se/json/en/201203/DNA) since roughly December 2011. Using that might help solve your problem. If you do end up using the legacy API, see this note about one of its bugs. Cheers, Emw (talk) 15:57, 22 July 2012 (UTC)

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Wikipage traffic statistics
Hi Henrik, my name is Matteo and I am Wiki contributor. I would like to know if the number of accesses to Wiki-page are filtered by IP-address or not. Which is the degree of rreliability of such statistics? Thank you very much

Matteo — Preceding unsigned comment added by Matteo.dantoni (talk • contribs) 13:09, 18 July 2012 (UTC)
 * The underlying page view data used by Henrik's tool is anonymized -- it contains no IP address information whatsoever and is not filtered by IP address. Emw (talk) 16:00, 22 July 2012 (UTC)

Bugs in legacy JSON API at http://stats-classic.grok.se
The legacy JSON API for page view data, e.g. http://stats-classic.grok.se/json/en/201204/DNA, reports 0 page views for the first day of every month before May 2012. Another more minor bug: the 'daily_views' value is always an array with 32 elements before May 2012 -- presumably the length of the array should equal the number of days in the given month. In any case, this legacy JSON API is still quite useful for me -- thanks for keeping it available. Emw (talk) 16:09, 22 July 2012 (UTC)

Graphs in http://stats-classic.grok.se before May 2012 all off by a day
The old stats.grok.se graphs, at http://stats-classic.grok.se, are all off by a day for graphs before May 2012. They report page views for date X that are actually the page views for date X - 1. For example, compare http://stats-classic.grok.se/en/200906/Michael%20Jackson to http://stats.grok.se/en/200906/Michael%20Jackson -- the traffic spike is reported to have occurred on 6/27 on the old version and 6/26 on the new version (the new version is correct). This is likely caused by the same underlying issue as the bug reported in my previous post (see above). Best, Emw (talk) 18:56, 22 July 2012 (UTC)

Blocked IP for stats.grok.se
Hi,

for long time ago I created a script which gets the views for my POIs on wikipedia by your site stats.grok.se. But I did the mistake that I requested your server to much and haven't seen the error message until now.

Would it be possibile that you can unblock my IP "91.190.147.96"? I've changed the script so that it will reduce the requests and enlarge the waiting timeout between requests.

Please answer me at stephan.daratha@googlemail.com

Thanks a lot

With kind regards

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Hi. I read the FAQs and I am pretty sure my question was not there. I would like to have data about "direct" hits to images. I.e.,, while about the same file but with the en.wiki address. I think these data are relevant when the name of the file is meaningful, so people can find it directly from search engines and not click on a Wikipedia page including it. So my question is, are these queries appropriate for what I am looking for? Do I have to repeat the query for each language, or does the Commons'one include all of them as well - although I don't think so? Thanks! --Elitre (talk) 17:49, 30 July 2012 (UTC)

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Hello, I'm from es.wikipedia. First of all, thank you very much for that tool; it's very useful. About the top viewed pages option... It seems that it's not updated since December 2010. I saw here that "this information is not updated on a regular schedule. It is performed by Henrik (at least somewhat) manually". Are you planning to update it? Thank you. --DJ Nietzsche (talk) 18:15, 24 July 2012 (UTC)
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 * Hi, I'm using the french Wikipedia and it would also be usefull for us to have the "top viewed" stats updated on a regular basis. Do you think it could be possible to do it ? Anyway, thanks a lot for your tool. It's very usefull and well done. --ChercheTrouve (talk) 11:43, 4 August 2012 (UTC)

Stats.grok.se whole-year stats?
Thanks for the stats viewer service! Up until 2011, whole-year data seemed to be available, as in. The whole-year stats seem to have disappeared. Can they be added back? (please reply here) --Lexein (talk) 11:40, 4 August 2012 (UTC)

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Hei! Jeg ser at statistikken over sidevisninger har hele fem desimaler bak seg. Siden antall sidevisninger alltid er heltall er vel dette unødvendig, vil jeg tro… :-) Jon Harald Søby (talk) 21:03, 6 August 2012 (UTC)

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Hi Henrik!

I'm glad, your statistics work also for frrwiki: http://stats.grok.se/frr/201207/Wikipedia:Hoodsid. Could frrwiki (North Frisisan) be added to the dropdown list of languages? And could the languages be sorted in alphabetical order? Thanks for your attention! --Murma174 (talk) 09:11, 16 August 2012 (UTC)

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Hi, can you please merge Abdel Aziz Khoja to Abdulaziz bin Mohieddin Khoja. I am not sure before any discussion it can be performed, though. I wrote you since you are an admin. Thanks, Egeymi (talk) 11:32, 28 August 2012 (UTC)

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Statistics on article views
Please read the frequently asked questions, from which I quote the following excerpt:


 * See also
 * Emw's version is a visual tool written by Emw, based off of Henrik's data.
 * Trending Topics, provides detailed view. Also does not go as far back in time as stats.grok.se
 * WikiRoll: top viewed pages of the day/week/month/year on some Wikipedias, by Maciej Smoleński.
 * WikiTrends: articles with biggest view increases (only Wikipedia)
 * Wiki-Watch: Last 30 days, also works when stats.grosk.se is down . For Wikipedia English. For Wikipedia German: de.wiki-watch.de/
 * Raw data used for third party programs or analyzing (Henrik's source); see also User:Emijrp/Wikipedia_Archive

Kiefer .Wolfowitz  10:50, 7 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Kiefer, that's great, but none of them are useful. Wiki-watch is not loading, trendingtopics has not been updated for over 2 years, Emw's tool depends on Henrik's data, and neither WikiTrends nor WikiRoll show the numbers of views for specific pages. CharlieEchoTango ( contact ) 08:03, 8 September 2012 (UTC)

Stats Sept 4, 2012
Hi Henrik,

Stats for Sept 4 on the English Wikipedia haven't show up as of this posting. Thanks for your attention. Maile66 (talk) 11:16, 5 September 2012 (UTC)


 * Stats for Sept 4 on the English Wikipedia haven't show up as of this posting. Why ? Thanks a lot. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 93.4.38.247 (talk) 15:35, 5 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Stats Sept 5, 2012... Out of order ? But why ? Please tell us... Thanks. --IP, 6 September 2012 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 93.4.38.247 (talk) 17:47, 6 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Stats Sept 6, 2012... Out of order. Again. --IP, 7 September 2012 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 93.4.38.247 (talk) 05:40, 7 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Stats out of order, Henrik missing wikipedian and Wikipedia administrators dead... So, that's rather bad. Best regards. --IP, 9 September 2012

Hello,

It seems that the stats on Commons are broken after Sept, 3rd. Regards, Yann (talk) 08:31, 9 September 2012 (UTC)
 * They are fixed now. Thanks. --Nemo 05:39, 10 September 2012 (UTC)

I have added you to Missing Wikipedians
Just to let you know (I am supposed to - this is what it says). Ottawahitech (talk) 14:44, 8 September 2012 (UTC)

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Page view referrals
Is there any way to see where the page views reported in your tool are coming from? One of the articles I have been working on had a really significant spike in traffic a few days ago, and I'm curious where the readers were coming from. CanadianJudoka (talk) 17:36, 15 September 2012 (UTC)

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Where do I find the ranking-list of the most viewed articles in the German Wikipedia on http://stats.grok.se/ ? Thanks — Allrounder  ( talk ) 00:25, 16 September 2012 (UTC)
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How accurate are these stats?
I don't know if anyone is still reading this talk page. I hope Henrik is still looking at it sometimes.

Anyway I have noticed that many pages that clearly had visits, display zero on their stats. Here is an example: http://stats.grok.se/en/latest/2012_Lamma_Island_ferry_collision# that shows zero visits on Oct 2, 2012. but when you look at the page history http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=2012_Lamma_Island_ferry_collision&dir=prev&limit=20&action=history it shows many edits on this date. Ottawahitech (talk) 19:07, 4 October 2012 (UTC)
 * The WMF tech people put out the data and Henrik's tool manipulates the data into a chart. You should probably look at the source data first to see if Henrik's tool is accurately reflecting what the WMF's system is saying. Killiondude (talk) 19:59, 4 October 2012 (UTC)
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 * Thanks for looking into this, Killiondude. Ottawahitech (talk) 00:15, 15 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Note that the page was renamed on the 1st (see stats of the original page), and BTW the timezone might be playing a role here?? Raysonho (talk) 06:37, 9 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Yes, that may explain what happened. Good point Raysonho. Ottawahitech (talk) 00:17, 15 October 2012 (UTC)

Antony Hickling
more articles confirming that Antony Hickling's page should not have been deleted. He is currently on the Jury for the prestigious film festival in Paris and an article in USA for his latest film

http://cheries-cheris.com/jury.html

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 * The deletion discussion was held here. I believe there is a formal way to request a review. Ottawahitech (talk) 00:28, 15 October 2012 (UTC)

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Dear Henrik!

Hello from Russia! Thanks for the great tool stats.grok.se. Now I’m trying to calculate the statistics (that you can see on my page in Russian Wikipedia). I’ve written a PHP script that takes data from your site, watches it, and gives me a result. But I have a little problem—my script doesn’t see the statistics about the article Eric Horsted (in Russian Wikipedia). I can see the statistics manually but the script returns “500 Internal Server Error” every time. All another pages give right data. By the way, I want to make a bot that will use my script. But this problem made me confused. What can I do? Is it a problem of my script?

Thank you. Dyzzet (talk) 20:20, 19 October 2012 (UTC)


 * Probably a problem in your script, since it works in your web browser. Granted, it should probably not give a 500 error. Which exact URL are you requesting using your script? henrik  • talk  22:43, 19 October 2012 (UTC)


 * My script works correctly with all another pages. In other words, the parser works well. The exact URL I request is: http://stats.grok.se/json/ru/201101/Хорстед,_Эрик. It is opened successfully in my browser but the script can’t see that file. Dyzzet (talk) 11:24, 20 October 2012 (UTC)

// The part of my PHP script // Really, the script builds the address of the file using a cycle. And it does do it correctly. $filename = ' http://stats.grok.se/json/ru/201101/Хорстед,_Эрик' ; // The next line causes the error $fileArray = file($filename);


 * Are you sure about your character encodings? Non-ascii URLs are a bit tricky. Which encoding do you use in your source? Percent-encoded, the URL should be http://stats.grok.se/json/ru/201209/%D0%A5%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%B4%2C_%D0%AD%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%BA henrik  • talk  20:55, 20 October 2012 (UTC)


 * Thank you very much! I added a call of urlencode function. Now, it works well in all cases. Thanks for the great tool, Henrik! Dyzzet (talk) 08:19, 21 October 2012 (UTC)

$filename = 'http://stats.grok.se/json/ru/'. $year. $month. '/' . urlencode($article); $fileArray = file($filename);

stats.grok.se code?
Hi - is the code you use to create stats.grok.se available anywhere? It strikes me as the sort of thing that would be useful in general for MediaWiki sites - David Gerard (talk) 21:49, 19 October 2012 (UTC)


 * Hi David! Sure, it's on github, GPLv3: https://github.com/abelsson/stats.grok.se. henrik  • talk  22:41, 19 October 2012 (UTC)


 * \o/ Thank you! You should link this from the site :-) (Unless it is and I just failed to spot it) - David Gerard (talk) 07:59, 20 October 2012 (UTC)


 * In case others here are as nosy as I am, GitHub is documented on Wikipedia. Ottawahitech (talk) 19:04, 21 October 2012 (UTC)

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Compare Necrosis and B vitamins. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mdeea (talk • contribs) 06:38, 28 October 2012 (UTC)

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Problem with stats-classic.grok.se
Hi Henrik, I've got a traffic visualization tool that uses your JSON web service. I notice that the stats-classic.grok.se JSON API, on which that tool of mine relies, doesn't seem to be working -- e.g. http://stats-classic.grok.se/json/en/201203/DNA. Any idea what's wrong there? Thanks, Emw (talk) 02:58, 25 October 2012 (UTC)


 * Hi Emw! Apologies, I had moved the database server to a new IP and forgot to update the classic site. I hope that you'll consider moving to the new API though, is there any reason why you're still using the old one? henrik  • talk  18:14, 26 October 2012 (UTC)


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Do hits to the mobile-version of an article count for the stats? Example. If not, will there be a fix for it? Thanks --KurtR (talk) 20:53, 16 November 2012 (UTC)

Help for statistics for a wikipedia page
Hello, Henrik,

In July this year I drafted a Wikipedia page on the account of my institution: http://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ministerul_Dezvoltării_Regionale_şi_Turismului_(România) (in Romanian) and now I am trying to find out how many users viewed it until now. I used http://stats.grok.se but it doesn't seem to work with this page. Could you help me with this?

Thank you very much,

Doina Dobre-Lereanu doina.lereanu@mdrt.ro — Preceding unsigned comment added by Edezvoltare (talk • contribs) 14:36, 12 November 2012 (UTC)


 * Hello Doria, I think your link is in error because that page does not appear to exist on the romanian wikipedia. Your link leads to an empty page. henrik  • talk  18:47, 12 November 2012 (UTC)


 * Hello Doria, I guess there was something like a typing mistake in your request, I managed to find the statistics you look for on [[User:Robby|Robby] (talk) 15:55, 18 November 2012 (UTC)

stats.grok.se: « Most viewed articles in »
Hi,

Is it possible to have a new top list ? http://stats.grok.se/fr.s/top is very old and useless. Thanks. Joseph Prunier (talk) 16:11, 17 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Funny, I just wanted to suggest the same for http://stats.grok.se/de/top - a summary for each month an each jear! --80.123.56.95 (talk) 09:00, 18 November 2012 (UTC)

Bug 42259 - Make domas' pageviews data available in semi-publicly queryable database format
FYI --Nemo 11:20, 19 November 2012 (UTC)

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Need stats for Kannada on stats.grok.se
Hi Henrik, will it be possible to add option for Kannada (http://kn.wikipedia.org) stats to Grok.se? that would be great. Thanks Omshivaprakash (talk) 03:46, 27 November 2012 (UTC)

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Minor improvement request to rendered 'Wikipedia article traffic statistics' output
Hi Henrik: first a hearty (but barnstarless) thank you for your fine work when you created the Wikipedia article traffic statistics tool, which countless editors appreciate, myself included (I have no idea where to find barnstars for programmer-admins). I would like to suggest a minor improvement on the output of your article traffic tool to assist editors in better understanding the bar graph pattern.

You can notice that many articles have cycles of high and low readership (page views) which correspond to the audiences viewing them. For editors to better understand the cycles of viewership, kindly revise your Y axis reference grid lines which are presently set to reflect approximate 4 day periods. If you can reset this period to 7 days, with the Y axis reference grid lines positioned between Sundays and Mondays every week, editors can immediately identify which are the most and also the least popular days of the week for article viewership. Possibly this will allow editors to identify which articles are highly in demand for school/education research projects, and allow the article to be improved to better serve such audiences. An example can be seen here, where the lowest readership occurs weekly on Saturdays. Again, thank you for your nifty code cobbling work. Best: HarryZilber (talk) 15:20, 2 December 2012 (UTC)

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Wikipedia Statistics
Hi Henrik! I am writing to ask you help regarding WP Statistics related to Kazakh Wikipedia. Could you please advise how I can get information about KKWP traffic? The number of views per page? Thank you in advance! User:Ashina e-mail: nartay.ashim@gmail.com — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.47.217.113 (talk) 05:36, 10 December 2012 (UTC)

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Article traffic display
Please see WP:VPT. Simply south...... walking into bells for just 6 years 00:26, 12 December 2012 (UTC)

Top statistic for 2011 and 2012
Hello Henrik, please help. I wonder if the top page statistic is renew for 2011 and 2012 even if there's data loss. I usually calculate stat and it can be seen in here Wikipedia bahasa Indonesia's article top 100 statistic, English Wikipedia top 100 article statistic, but I can not change the top stat from 2010 (I want to change them to 2011 and 2012) thanks for your help. Serenity id (talk) 09:35, 12 December 2012 (UTC)

Wikipedia article traffic statistics
I was wondering how redirects affect this counter? Such as when someone goes to a page that is a redirect, is that visit counted as traffic? Or is it only counted when they visit it with the redirect=no? Thanks. Tiggerjay (talk) 19:41, 16 December 2012 (UTC)

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Pageview stats site
Hi Henrik,

Here are some suggestions I have for your pageview stats site:
 * 1) I think that it would be best for the default to be the past 30 days, not the current month. With the current month appearing first, you see fewer stats when it is early in the month than when it is toward the end of that month. There should still be the option to see current month with a single click.
 * 2) The average number of views per day of the data displayed on the chart should be displayed on the screen
 * 3) It would be nice for a link to the pageview stats to be found in the list of toolbox option (the same list where "what links here" is found). Currently, it can be best reached by going to WP:PVS and this would save a few steps.

Sebwite (talk) 04:47, 23 December 2012 (UTC)

Two questions regarding the statistics: Greeting and a merry Christmas --Bjs (talk) 20:15, 23 December 2012 (UTC)
 * 1) In December 2011, the bar for the main page of german Wikipedia is missing for December 24 and 25, and is almost zero for December 23. However, this appears not to be the normal course for christmas, compare December 2010
 * 2) Same page, but latest 90 days: The visitors constantly were about 1 million per day upt to November 2012. Then they went up to between 3 and 5 millions. I cannot believe this is really true. What might be the reason?

Estadísticas por año
Hello Henrik:

Disculpa que te escriba en español, pero mi dominio del sueco o del inglés no son suficientes. Soy médico y quiero estudiar el interés social de los usuarios por la terminología médica. Para ese estudio es fundamental disponer de las estadísticas siguientes:


 * El listado de los 1000 términos más visitados en Wikipedia desde el año 2007 al 2012 (sólo tengo los del 2009 y 2010) en español e inglés.


 * Hallar el número de total visitas por años (desde el 2007 al 2012), a un término concreto (ejemplo: "médico"). También en español y en inglés.

¿Me puedes ayudar?

Thanks: --Raimundo Pastor (talk) 21:50, 25 December 2012 (UTC) http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usuario:Raimundo_Pastor rpastors@yahoo.es

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Are stats.grok.se statistics up to date?
Hi,

Thanks a lot for the great pageviews tool! I was just wondering: I see that the data that you base it on is only available up to 2011. Is your tool still current? Also, are the view counts accurate for pages in namespaces other than the main one? I'm getting some strange results for pages in the Wikipedia namespace.

Thanks again! Polymath49 (talk) 23:20, 31 December 2012 (UTC)

Wikipedia traffic statistics
Dear Henrik,

I am the deputy editor-in-chief of Slate.fr, a French online magazine. I'm writing to you because of traffic statistics recently published for Wikipedia in 2012: http://toolserver.org/~johang/2012.html#french A lot of French people were astonished by the fact that the 2012 no. 1 in France is the page "houx crénelé" ("Ilex Crenata"), and we assume that there is a technical explanation behind that bizarre phenomenon (there were 4 millions views in a few days from the redirection "Ilex Crenata": http://stats.grok.se/fr/201204/Ilex%20crenata). Do you have an idea of what that technical explanation could be (a bot, maybe?).

I have also noticed that in Germany the no 1 is "Sackgasse", a page that has a huge traffic since February 2011, but only during workdays, never on weekends and bank holidays. I have read that the explanation could be an automatic redirection implemented by a network administrator for "forbidden" pages. What do you think of that?

Thank you very much,

Jean-Marie Pottier Jmpottier (talk) 21:21, 1 January 2013 (UTC)

Tool
Hey there,

I wanted to view the stats on an article I created Amirite.com but it gives off an 'internal error' notice when I try and look them up,

Hope you can fix it soon and great tool by the way!

Best,

Philip

P.S Here is the article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amirite

I wanted to see how much interest it was getting because some people want it deletedCraddock1 23:35, 1 January 2013 (UTC)

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Faked statistics
Sir,

Last days in France, newspapers and websites showed up the ranking of top pages in France. And the classification is very... surprising. In the Top10, we've found 7 times the AS Monaco Football Club, or players of this Club. Surprised by these statistics, knowing that our club isn't very popular, i've made some researches.

As you can see on this picture : http://www.asmfoot.fr/forum/uploads/images/1357147009-U876.gif the graphics are stricly identical for each player of AS Monaco Football Club. I've been abled to find the same thing for a lot of others players of AS Monaco football team. I don't why but, it seems bots are faking traffic statistics of a few pages about AS Monaco.

We are very interested in understanding why do we have these false stats. Could you please, help me to understand ?

Thanks for your help. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.209.84.93 (talk) 13:37, 3 January 2013 (UTC)

Just to let you know
You have been mentioned at Missing Wikipedians Ottawahitech (talk) 16:11, 3 January 2013 (UTC)

leopold seyffert "user stats"
The "user stats" disappeared for December 2012. Is it permanent? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.14.222.6 (talk) 02:18, 4 January 2013 (UTC)

stats error
http://stats.grok.se/pl/201312/Prostytucja not working (internal server error) 83.11.93.26 (talk) 01:37, 6 January 2013 (UTC)


 * I predict the above URL will start working 11 months from now. 79.67.248.163 (talk) 00:18, 7 January 2013 (UTC)

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