Re: [MediaWiki-l] Is it possible to re-introduce "pageviews" and "PopularPages" in MediaWiki (in any hackish way) - or go with an install of 1.24?

2018-05-27 Thread David Gerard
I remember stats.grok.se with fondness - as I understand it, that checked the raw Squid logs and tallied up the page hits. I see we use the "pageviews" tool now - how available is that, and would it be usable outside tools.wmflabs.org? - d. On 27 May 2018 at 19:36, Lewis Cawte

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Is it possible to re-introduce "pageviews" and "PopularPages" in MediaWiki (in any hackish way) - or go with an install of 1.24?

2018-05-27 Thread Lewis Cawte
I'm not too familiar with the code but I don't think it would be too difficult to update HitCounters to run under 1.30. What state the extension is outside of the basic compatibility changes I don't know. I think it was removed from core over general performance and accuracy concerns. I'll try

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Is it possible to re-introduce "pageviews" and "PopularPages" in MediaWiki (in any hackish way) - or go with an install of 1.24?

2018-05-27 Thread Stephan Gambke
I am very much with Lewis on this: Using outdated MW versions poses significant security risks. That said, there is to my knowledge no one download package containing more than one skin. In fact, in the case of Chameleon there is no drop-in download package at all. You need to use Composer

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Is it possible to re-introduce "pageviews" and "PopularPages" in MediaWiki (in any hackish way) - or go with an install of 1.24?

2018-05-27 Thread Nischay Nahata
Hey, You can try the GoogleAnalytics extension if you are looking to display pageview count for every page. https://mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:GoogleAnalyticsMetrics On Sun, May 27, 2018, 4:43 PM Morten Blaabjerg wrote: > I am building a proof of concept site,

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Is it possible to re-introduce "pageviews" and "PopularPages" in MediaWiki (in any hackish way) - or go with an install of 1.24?

2018-05-27 Thread Morten Blaabjerg
On Sun, May 27, 2018 at 1:47 PM, Lewis Cawte wrote: > Never tried it but the functionality was moved into an extension, > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:HitCounters I found this, but is seems unsupported, and I would probably be just as worse off with this

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Is it possible to re-introduce "pageviews" and "PopularPages" in MediaWiki (in any hackish way) - or go with an install of 1.24?

2018-05-27 Thread Lewis Cawte
Never tried it but the functionality was moved into an extension, https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:HitCounters The MediaWiki site probably will not distribute the old versions of skins although they do exist in the old branches of their respective Git repositories. Is there any

[MediaWiki-l] Is it possible to re-introduce "pageviews" and "PopularPages" in MediaWiki (in any hackish way) - or go with an install of 1.24?

2018-05-27 Thread Morten Blaabjerg
I am building a proof of concept site, which will at a later stage, if it works the way I intend, be rebuilt from scratch and up. I wanted to use MediaWiki for this project, because of the speed by which it is possible to create a lot of articles in a short amount of time, and it has some cool