User talk:Henry W. Schmitt/Stupid

By what standard do you judge stupidity? If you count the terms upon which people search, you will find that they search for "stupid" things because they want to understand their meaning. Would it be more stupid to ignore the search logs and deny people access to the information they seek? 1of3 09:54, 16 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Search logs you say? I was not aware Wikipedia made search logs or published them publicly. Please cite your sources! -Henry W. Schmitt 17:53, 16 October 2007 (UTC)
 * They used to make all the logs available on a toolserver database for querying, but that was disabled for performance reasons. My understanding is that they turn that back on from time to time, usually for debugging, but these days they only let people access statistics culled from snapshots of a fraction of the logs taken ever 15 minutes, called Wikicharts.  Last month's top-twenty, along with my guess about whether you think they are stupid:
 * {|class="wikitable"

!Views per day!!Fraction!!Title!!Stupid?
 * 33 794 000 ± 0%||3.7451%||1. Main Page||No
 * 997 200 ± 2%||0.1105%||2. Wiki||No
 * 536 800 ± 3%||0.0595%||3. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows||Borderline
 * 475 200 ± 3%||0.0527%||4. Naruto||Yes
 * 407 200 ± 3%||0.0451%||5. Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock||Yes
 * 385 200 ± 3%||0.0427%||6. United States||No
 * 381 600 ± 3%||0.0423%||7. Harry Potter||Borderline
 * 375 200 ± 3%||0.0416%||8. Deaths in 2007||No
 * 372 400 ± 3%||0.0413%||9. Halo 3||Yes
 * 367 600 ± 3%||0.0407%||10. Wikipedia||No
 * 360 400 ± 3%||0.0399%||11. Transformers (film)||Yes
 * 328 800 ± 3%||0.0364%||12. Vanessa Anne Hudgens||Yes (nude photo scandal)
 * 325 600 ± 4%||0.0361%||13. Heroes (TV series)||Yes
 * 320 800 ± 4%||0.0356%||14. Luciano Pavarotti||No
 * 266 800 ± 4%||0.0296%||15. Bleach (manga)||Yes
 * 259 200 ± 4%||0.0287%||16. 50 Cent||Yes
 * 254 400 ± 4%||0.0282%||17. Hypertext Transfer Protocol||No
 * 254 400 ± 4%||0.0282%||18. List of sex positions||Yes
 * 246 000 ± 4%||0.0273%||19. World Wrestling Entertainment||Yes
 * 242 800 ± 4%||0.0269%||20. Sex||Borderline
 * }
 * Looks like, by my guess, the top-20 is more than half stupid. 1of3 22:01, 16 October 2007 (UTC)
 * 328 800 ± 3%||0.0364%||12. Vanessa Anne Hudgens||Yes (nude photo scandal)
 * 325 600 ± 4%||0.0361%||13. Heroes (TV series)||Yes
 * 320 800 ± 4%||0.0356%||14. Luciano Pavarotti||No
 * 266 800 ± 4%||0.0296%||15. Bleach (manga)||Yes
 * 259 200 ± 4%||0.0287%||16. 50 Cent||Yes
 * 254 400 ± 4%||0.0282%||17. Hypertext Transfer Protocol||No
 * 254 400 ± 4%||0.0282%||18. List of sex positions||Yes
 * 246 000 ± 4%||0.0273%||19. World Wrestling Entertainment||Yes
 * 242 800 ± 4%||0.0269%||20. Sex||Borderline
 * }
 * Looks like, by my guess, the top-20 is more than half stupid. 1of3 22:01, 16 October 2007 (UTC)
 * 254 400 ± 4%||0.0282%||17. Hypertext Transfer Protocol||No
 * 254 400 ± 4%||0.0282%||18. List of sex positions||Yes
 * 246 000 ± 4%||0.0273%||19. World Wrestling Entertainment||Yes
 * 242 800 ± 4%||0.0269%||20. Sex||Borderline
 * }
 * Looks like, by my guess, the top-20 is more than half stupid. 1of3 22:01, 16 October 2007 (UTC)
 * 242 800 ± 4%||0.0269%||20. Sex||Borderline
 * }
 * Looks like, by my guess, the top-20 is more than half stupid. 1of3 22:01, 16 October 2007 (UTC)


 * Thank you for taking your time to create this wonderful table. I copied it and started relabeling it to fit my views, but once complete I noticed I had a "yes" on every single one. If you are including Luciano Pavarotti as not stupid, you must not consider his fellow musician 50 Cent stupid. I was going to label some of those animes as stupid, but if Heroes stays so do they. Of course Harry Potter, one of the best selling franchises of literature in the history of printing are not stupid; I am thrilled that books beat video games and music.--Henry W. Schmitt 03:21, 17 October 2007 (UTC)