User talk:Biologylessons

2008 South Ossetia war

Hi, if you ever hear back from Henrik about the stats for the 2008 South Ossetia war article, I'd love to know - I'm also extremely interested in taking a look at the page view metrics of this article! It boggles my mind that a page view counter isn't enabled for Wikipedia - we're running MediaWiki at work (an older version, no less!!), and the number of page views shows at the bottom of every page, plus we can look at weekly/monthly reports - clearly the capability is built into the software, but just as clearly, Wikipedia chooses not to make this information public - fie upon them!!! Akindofmagick (talk) 19:43, 15 August 2008 (UTC)

The page counter on Wikimedia projects has been disabled because the implementation does not bear millions of updates per hour. Erik Zachte (talk) 16:27, 4 September 2008 (UTC)

I will do that individual analysis for you! Starting with August 7. Will take two days before there are the first results, is that ok? --- Best regards, Melancholie (talk) 20:37, 15 August 2008 (UTC)

See also overall week day analysis to compare...

1. First day: 2008 South Ossetia war (protagonists (day before)); not yet interesting, event not yet resounded throughout the land on 2008-08-07... --Melancholie (talk) 20:56, 17 August 2008 (UTC)
2. Second day: 2008 South Ossetia war (protagonists); gets a bit more interesting ;-) --Melancholie (talk) 23:32, 17 August 2008 (UTC)
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An interesting example of how view counts could be used to analyse a major news event. Erik Zachte (talk) 16:27, 4 September 2008 (UTC)