Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Dungeons & Dragons/Article hits

Honorable mention?
Hey Drilnoth, if you don't mind, I'd also like to keep track of some of the potential high-traffic articles by keeping some articles on this page in a commented-out section. Since traffic will vary from month to month, some of the current pages will be less than 7000 for December, and some of the near-misses might be over 7000. It will be a lot easier to keep track if we keep in mind those with potential. :) If you don't mind, I'll get to that. BOZ (talk) 18:01, 28 December 2008 (UTC)
 * I went and dug up a few that have potential: Artemis Entreri, Bahamut (Dungeons & Dragons), Baldur's Gate (series), Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance, Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance II, Baldur's Gate II: Throne of Bhaal, Bard (Dungeons & Dragons), D20 System, Dark Sun, Dragon (magazine), Dragons of Autumn Twilight, Dungeons & Dragons 2: Wrath of the Dragon God, Dungeons & Dragons Online: Stormreach, Eberron, Elf (Dungeons & Dragons), Elminster, Gen Con, Halfling, Lich (Dungeons & Dragons), List of Baldur's Gate characters, List of Dungeons & Dragons modules, List of Dungeons & Dragons video games, List of Forgotten Realms characters, List of Forgotten Realms novels, List of Neverwinter Nights characters, Lolth, Lord Soth, Margaret Weis, Minsc, Mystra (goddess), Neverwinter Nights (AOL game), Neverwinter Nights 2: Mask of the Betrayer, Neverwinter Nights 2: Mysteries of Westgate, Paladin (Dungeons & Dragons), Pool of Radiance, Ranger (Dungeons & Dragons), Steam tunnel incident, Tarrasque (Dungeons & Dragons), Tiamat (Dungeons & Dragons), Tiefling, Vecna, Wizard (Dungeons & Dragons)


 * And these came close, but no cigar: Cleric (Dungeons & Dragons), Dungeon Master, Eladrin, Gnoll, List of Dungeons & Dragons deities, Plane (Dungeons & Dragons), Spelljammer, Tracy Hickman, Underdark, War of the Spider Queen


 * Mind you, these are based solely on the stats from Nov-Dec 2008, and could have been or could yet be higher or lower. :) BOZ (talk) 20:58, 28 December 2008 (UTC)
 * You don't need to ask me; I created the page, but now it's part of the D&D project. Personally, I think that keeping track of them like that is an excellent idea! It might be better to just keep a list like you have above and check the articles every few months, rather than keeping a monthly total in a comment on the project page itself, but it doesn't really matter to me. -Drilnoth (talk) 03:28, 30 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Not a bad idea. I'm finding more as I go through the C-class list. Not going to bother going farther than that, though. :) BOZ (talk) 03:33, 30 December 2008 (UTC)

December 2008 stats
Some pretty interesting changes there! Any idea what the Beholder thing is all about? -Drilnoth (talk) 03:06, 1 January 2009 (UTC)
 * A glitch? I think only very very popular articles are likely to get 12,000 hits in a single day, unless there was a link or series of links posted somewhere, or a bot did it, or something. That's one reason people say that measuring by hits is unreliable. Beholder usually gets 100-200 hits a day, so I'll chalk that one up to a fluke. :) BOZ (talk) 03:11, 1 January 2009 (UTC)
 * That's what I kind of thought, but it certainly is a rather... um... aberrant behavior. :) -Drilnoth (talk) 03:22, 1 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Heh........ :)  Well, what else do you expect??? BOZ (talk) 03:28, 1 January 2009 (UTC)

Redirects counted separately?
Really, how can you be sure? I always figured that the reason pages like List of Dragonlance novels, List of prestige classes, List of Forgotten Realms deities, and List of Baldur's Gate characters got so many hits was because they have numerous articles redirected to them. But you're telling me now that those hits are all legit from people going straight to those pages, and the numbers should be even higher because of the redirects? If so, that's fascinating! BOZ (talk) 18:53, 21 January 2009 (UTC)
 * The info can be seen at ; kind of hidden, but that might make a few differences. -Drilnoth (talk) 18:08, 1 February 2009 (UTC)

January 2009
List of Baldur's Gate characters and Neverwinter Nights 2: Mask of the Betrayer and back down, and D20 System, List of Dungeons & Dragons deities, and Margaret Weis are up! About to update the main page with new stats... BOZ (talk) 04:09, 1 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Nice! -Drilnoth (talk) 18:09, 1 February 2009 (UTC)

Wow....
Now that's an article hits list. :) -Drilnoth (talk) 21:17, 2 February 2009 (UTC)


 * Indeed! Some surprising, and not so surprising info there! It will take some time to digest. :) BOZ (talk) 21:24, 2 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Good deal - I like it much better that the redirects are added to the article to which they point. :) BOZ (talk) 14:40, 3 March 2009 (UTC)
 * I'm not sure if they actually are, seeing as how Storm of Zehir (redirect) is higher on the list than Neverwinter Nights 2: Storm of Zehir (article). But regardless... it's nice to see some more greens up on that list! -Drilnoth (talk) 15:47, 3 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Oh, I didn't check... I thought the added line of "This data aggregates the views for all redirects to each page" meant it was fixed. :) BOZ (talk) 16:27, 3 March 2009 (UTC)

March 2009
Definitely happy seeing more GA's up there in the top 10 - great work, Drilnoth, on helping to facilitate that. :) BOZ (talk) 03:27, 5 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks! It's really great to have a collaboration like this... 3 (4 on some pages) people working together on articles. –Drilnoth (T • C) 03:43, 5 April 2009 (UTC)