Thanks, Erik and Nemo!

teak

On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 10:03 AM, Erik Zachte <[email protected]> wrote:
> Wikistats numbers seem broken. Whether this is caused by incomplete dumps of
> bug in script I will have to investigate.
> Next week I'm on travel, not sure if I can find out earlier, we'll see.
>
> Let me explain why all months display lower counts: on every monthly run of
> wikistats nearly all data are regenerated from the dumps. This is on
> purpose. This way new functionality and (rare) bug fixes apply to all months
> since the creation of the wiki. The other side is that when stats scripts or
> dumps are broken reports will show wrong data for all months, which is what
> happened now (a hybrid situation with data retention and update runs would
> complicate processing further and easily be a source of errors itself).
>
> BTW For nice overview of local counts for all wikisource wikis see
> http://s23.org/wikistats/wikisources_html.php
>
> Erik Zachte
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of teak
> Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2012 6:33 PM
> To: discussion list for Wikisource, the free library
> Subject: [Wikisource-l] skewed statistics
>
> Hi,
>
> does anyone know why the wikisource statistics are so skewed from what the
> local special:statistics shows?
>
> compare
> http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikiquote/EN/Sitemap.htm
> with, say,
> http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Special:Statistics
>
> This seems to affect only wikisource, as wikipedia and wikiqoute are fine...
>
> And which one is more trustworthy?
>
> teak
>
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