Author: jsalsman
Description:
During a #wikimedia-strategy brainstorming session, regarding a Question of the Week:
"What changes to Wikimedia's technology would enable a friendlier and more welcoming
environment?") it was suggested that the main issues could be addressed thusly:
[20:20] <jimmyps> we could address the first two (tallest) bars on
http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:091207_QOTW.png simply by publicizing statistics from http://stats.grok.se
[20:21] <eekim> jimmyps: the key question is, how would you publicize it,
and how would you measure if you were being effective?
[20:22] <jimmyps> eekim: for each article find the top 10 articles
also in its categories and list them in order on the sidebar after the interwikis with "x,xxx views/month" right-justified on every other line after each of the 10
[20:23] <jimmyps> that would indicate to people the most popular subjects
that they are also interested in
[20:23] <jimmyps> this could be done in batch mode
[20:25] <jimmyps> does anyone disagree that listing the most popular
"related articles" with their viewership counts on the sidebar after the interwikis would address the largest leftmost two bars on http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:091207_QOTW.png ?
(no disagreements were forthcoming)
Would someone who understands what is and is not possible with bots and MediaWiki please comment on the feasibility of this proposal? Thank you. 99.62.186.125 (talk) 04:49, 9 December 2009 (UTC)
it would be possible, the best method would probably be a toolserver acc with a javascript function that retrieves the data from the toolserver once we set the rules for what is and is not related. βcommand 04:52, 9 December 2009 (UTC)
Even better would be to have a statistics tab next to history. With graphs of metrics like readability, bytes size, html size, word count, number of references, incoming link count (backlinks), outgoing link count (links), traffic statistics, and possibly something like history flow. And maybe be able to compare to other pages. If the caching is done right it could be done on the toolserver. — Dispenser 05:41, 9 December 2009 (UTC)\
Perhaps 'related' is everything wikilinked and everything in the same categories? 99.62.186.125 (talk) 18:29, 9 December 2009 (UTC)
The same algorithm as related changed I would say. Rich Farmbrough, 09:20, 15 December 2009 (UTC).Note: per http://stats.grok.se/about the statistics are not from the toolserver, they are from http://dammit.lt/wikistats/ -- per Brion, the upstream data is from a wikimedia internal source.
Version: unspecified
Severity: enhancement
URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bot_requests/Archive_32#Most_popular_related_articles