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 > > _______________________________________________ > Wikisource-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikisource-l > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikisource-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikisource-l _______________________________________________ Wikisource-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikisource-l
