User:Milowent/History of Wikipedia Pageview Stats

2001-02 Special:Popularpages gave stats. (See Nov 2, 2002 archive: [1])
2002/early 03?: disabled. [2] "Sorry! This feature has been temporarily disabled because it slows the database down to the point that no one can use the wiki. Which is bad. It will be rewritten for efficiency in the near future (possibly by you! we're open source after all)"
2003-2004: monthly stats, e.g., [3]

31 March 2004: User:Imran creates Wikipedia:Popular pages and posts a list of all articles which exceeded 10,000 page views in March 2004. The Main Page had 2 million hits, followed by Current events (62,488), Seven dirty words (36,230), United States (30,568) and World War II (28,530). March 11, 2004 Madrid attacks (21,291) was also in the top 10, showing Wikipedia already being used as a news source for big recent events. Imran derived his list with a script applied to the data then available at: http://wikimedia.org/stats/wiki.riteme.site/ . Imran retired from Wikipedia in September 2004.
'April -August 2004: Imran updated Wikipedia:Popular pages with month data for April through July 2004. (August 2, 2004 version of page
May 2004: Imran does a comparison chart of March rankings v. April rankings: User:Imran/zeitgeist.
October 2004: User:Sietse Snel creates a "Top 1000" ranking. Popular pages is later updated to include August and September 2004 lists.[4]. It is not updated with any statistics after September 2004, and the page is marked "historical" in July 2005. See also Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archive_10#frequency_of_visits_of_single_pages ("Well, there used to be a counter on every page, but it slowed down the servers too much, and has been disabled for longer than anyone can remember.")
October 2005: Wikipedia:Most visited articles is created. Contains all articles with 5000 or more views as of June 23, 2005. (Note: At least one editor disputed the accuracy of the list, see []Wikipedia talk:Most visited articles]]) Page also directs users to User:Dcoetzee/List of Wikipedia articles with at least 1000 hits.
Jan 2006: Discussion at Wikipedia_talk:Version_1.0_Editorial_Team/Archive_5#.27Nother_Idea
August 2006: A new "experimental" listing of top pages per month is added at http://tools.wikimedia.de/~leon/stats/wikicharts/index.php?ns=articles&limit=100&wiki=enwiki (link added to Popular pages:[5])
Late 2007-Early 2008?: Comprehensive page view stats (starting with December 2007) for all pages become available at [stats.grok.se]; hosted by User:Henrik

See User_talk:Henrik/Archive_3#Question_about_your_traffic_tool, User_talk:Henrik/Archive_3#Traffic_Stats_Tool (Jan 2008 discussions)

5 March 2008: stats.grok.se adds a "top list" for English Wikipedia. see "news"
19 March 2008: stats.grok.se adds a "top 1000 articles in February" list for all projects.
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October 2012: WP:5000 listing of top 5000 most viewed articles on a 10 day cycle is created by User:West.andrew.g. see Wikipedia:Top 25 Report/About
January 2013: WP:5000 changes to a 7-day cycle, and human curated WP:TOP25 is created.
4 February 2013: Signpost Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2013-02-04/Special report by West and Milowent highlights new WP:5000 and WP:TOP25; article receives press attention.
5 October 2014: WP:5000 and WP:TOP25 updated to now include available mobile data.

November 2015: New Pageview API is made public [6]

2015

April 2016: New TopViews report debuts based on new Pageviews API. See discussion Wikipedia_talk:Wikipedia_Signpost/Archive_9#Topviews_Analysis_live here and Wikipedia_talk:Wikipedia_Signpost/Archive_9#Topviews_Analysis_live:here. The WP:TOP25 team sees that it works across all language wikipedias (WP:5000 is limited to en), and creates a sample Top 25 for the Chinese Wikipedia, Wikipedia:Top 25 Report/March 27 to April 2, 2016 China
September 2016: TopViews updated to only allow day or month lists. See Wikipedia_talk:Top_25_Report/Archive_5#Topviews_no_longer_supports_custom_date_ranges_.28such_as_one_week.29

TopViews: https://tools.wmflabs.org/topviews/?project=wiki.riteme.site&platform=all-access&date=last-month&excludes=

https://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/Wikipedia:Traffic

To dissect

Temp ( milo notes)

Wikipedia traffic (nostalgia wikipedia)
Wikipedia:Redirects_for_discussion/Log/2006_September_23#Wikipedia.2FMost_popular_pages_.E2.86.92_Special:Popularpages- some old URL history
Feb 04 (extended data): [7] (found via (see also [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Pages_from_English_Wikipedia_with_more_than_1000_hits_in_Feb_2004/Wikipedia_namespace - wikipedia namespace)
Sept 2005 main page talk discussion re most viewed pages at Talk:Main_Page/Archive_44#Most_popular_articles_-_add_to_main_page.3F. Raul654 says webalizer is back.
Sept 2006 discussion Talk:Main_Page/Archive_80#Most_popular_articles_of_the_day
Prior to wikimedia, stats were at wikipedia.org/stats -- but archive.org doesn't have preserved versions of Sept - Nov 2002, Feb 2003, listed. [8]

Wikichart tool 2006-07

http://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/viewArticle/1765/1645#app ("WikiCharts is used to identify the 100 most visited Wikipedia pages in the months of September 2006 to January 2007. ") ("It is interesting that Wikipedia does not offer a “most viewed” or “most popular” feature on its site that can be easily found. Such a feature plays an important role on many highly visited sites, such as YouTube [2], Digg [3] or Del.icio.us [4]. Fortunately, Weber (2006) has developed the tool WikiCharts that enables you to identify the most visited pages or articles for a specific month in Wikipedia.")
More on WikiCharts: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiCharts - was at https://www.toolserver.org/~leon/source/rawview.php/wikicharts also see http://www.leighgraveswolf.com/2006/08/
http://wikilit.referata.com/wiki/What_is_popular_on_Wikipedia_and_why%3F
WikiTop50 : August 2006 - May 2007 [9]
Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2015-05-20/In_focus#What_about_Wikistats.3F
[10] (August 2006; based on wikicharts no view numbers)
Wikipedia_talk:Statistics/Archive_2#WikiChart_not_working (28 Jan 2008)

Archive project

October 2001
November 2001
December 2001 - November 2002 - NEED DATA SOURCES

[11] shows that reports fro Sept-Nov 2002 were extant in August 2003, but archive.org does not seem to have those pages archived.

December 2002
January 2003
February 2003
March 2003
April 2003
May 2003
June 2003
July 2003
August 2003
September 2003
October 2003
November 2003
December 2003- NEED DATA SOURCE
January 2004 - NEED DATA SOURCE
February 2004
March 2004
April 2004
May 2004
June 2004
July 2004
August 2004
September 2004
October 2004
February 2008
2008 wikisticks home [12] (interesting info)
May 2008
June 2008: wikisticks: [13]
July 2008: wikiStics (30 days data): [14]
August 2008 (done using stat.grok.se [15]: wikiStics: [16]
Sept 2008: wikiSTicks (29 days data): [17]
Oct 2008: wikiSticks (29 days data): [18] (also [19])
July 2009: wikisticks [20]
August 2009: wikistics: [21]
Wikipedia:Top 25 Report/December 2009
Dec 10 [22] (May 20, 2011 archive.org)
Apr 13 [23] (July 29, 2013 archive.org)