User talk:Henry W. Schmitt/Stupid

By what standard do you judge stupidity? If you count the terms upon which people search, you will find that they search for "stupid" things because they want to understand their meaning. Would it be more stupid to ignore the search logs and deny people access to the information they seek? 1of3 09:54, 16 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Search logs you say? I was not aware Wikipedia made search logs or published them publicly. Please cite your sources! -Henry W. Schmitt 17:53, 16 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

They used to make all the logs available on a toolserver database for querying, but that was disabled for performance reasons. My understanding is that they turn that back on from time to time, usually for debugging, but these days they only let people access statistics culled from snapshots of a fraction of the logs taken ever 15 minutes, called Wikicharts. Last month's top-twenty, along with my guess about whether you think they are stupid:

Views per day	Fraction	Title	Stupid?
33 794 000 ± 0%	3.7451%	1. Main Page	No
997 200 ± 2%	0.1105%	2. Wiki	No
536 800 ± 3%	0.0595%	3. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows	Borderline
475 200 ± 3%	0.0527%	4. Naruto	Yes
407 200 ± 3%	0.0451%	5. Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock	Yes
385 200 ± 3%	0.0427%	6. United States	No
381 600 ± 3%	0.0423%	7. Harry Potter	Borderline
375 200 ± 3%	0.0416%	8. Deaths in 2007	No
372 400 ± 3%	0.0413%	9. Halo 3	Yes
367 600 ± 3%	0.0407%	10. Wikipedia	No
360 400 ± 3%	0.0399%	11. Transformers (film)	Yes
328 800 ± 3%	0.0364%	12. Vanessa Anne Hudgens	Yes (nude photo scandal)
325 600 ± 4%	0.0361%	13. Heroes (TV series)	Yes
320 800 ± 4%	0.0356%	14. Luciano Pavarotti	No
266 800 ± 4%	0.0296%	15. Bleach (manga)	Yes
259 200 ± 4%	0.0287%	16. 50 Cent	Yes
254 400 ± 4%	0.0282%	17. Hypertext Transfer Protocol	No
254 400 ± 4%	0.0282%	18. List of sex positions	Yes
246 000 ± 4%	0.0273%	19. World Wrestling Entertainment	Yes
242 800 ± 4%	0.0269%	20. Sex	Borderline

Looks like, by my guess, the top-20 is more than half stupid. 1of3 22:01, 16 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for taking your time to create this wonderful table. I copied it and started relabeling it to fit my views, but once complete I noticed I had a "yes" on every single one. If you are including Luciano Pavarotti as not stupid, you must not consider his fellow musician 50 Cent stupid. I was going to label some of those animes as stupid, but if Heroes stays so do they. Of course Harry Potter, one of the best selling franchises of literature in the history of printing are not stupid; I am thrilled that books beat video games and music.--Henry W. Schmitt 03:21, 17 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]