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Need the Potentia Media page back. I am trying to make it what it was listed as

11:11, 30 December 2007 Henrik (Talk | contribs) deleted "Potentia Media" ‎ (It is blatant advertising for a company, product, group, service or person that would require a substantial rewrite in order to become an encyclopedia article. (CSD G11))

Need the Potentia Media page back. I am trying to make it what it was listed as. A bit of help for Charity would be nice. It's not a business, it's a charity. Below is an email I just got in. I represent at 503C3, Sisters in the Building Trades. My e-mail is shyeshye@aol.com I have no idea how to use this site other than to read it. So a bit of help would be nice. Lots of work trying to change the world on a shoe string. Help is appreciated. It was a good article, just a few points that needed to be made real, and I was working on that as you will see below. Explaining a charity and what it does is not a bad thing. And all 3 charity's involved in this request are easily varifiable. Great site. First time I have had an issue. Thanks for your work. It is appreciated.

Dear Melina,

Thank you for writing to us and for the wonderful work that you do! Yes, Potentia media is a beautiful project and unfortunately, we dont have a partnership with them. As you can see on Potentia's web site, they currently partner with CARE. However, we are talking to them about potentially partnering with them and should that happen, we would mutually feature links to each other's web sites.

I tried to look up the wikipedia entry where Potentia mentions they partner with the Global Fund but was unable to find it - can you please send me the link?

Also, considering the wonderful work you do with Sisters in the Building Trades, Id like to quickly mention one of our grantee partners in Nicaragua that works to train women in unconventional trades like building, carpentry and so on - do check them out at www.mujeresconstructoras.org

Thank you so much for writing to us,

Warmly,

Preeti

-- Preeti Mangala Shekar Communications Associate Global Fund for Women 1375 Sutter Street, Suite 400 San Francisco, CA 94109 T: 415 202-7640, Ext 354 F: 415 202-8604 preeti@globalfundforwomen.org www.globalfundforwomen.org Read Global Fund updates on our blog: http://www.globalfundforwomen.org/cms/blog/

Misplaced Pages web statistics

hi,

i am a researcher at Inria in France. I am doing a research over the domain name system and, in order to validate the results of my research, i would need real web statistics from a range of different websites with different users numbers. So i figured that wikipedia would be perfect, since you have multiple domains, e.g. en.wikipedia.org, it.wikipedia.org, with a broad range of hits. Given the open nature of wikipedia, shown in projects like yours at stats.grok.se, i was wondering if you could help me to find this kind of information regarding wikipedia.

Thank you My email address is: perito@inrialpes.fr

Misplaced Pages article traffic statistics

When will there be a stats of July? 217.233.246.114 (talk) 19:25, 28 July 2008 (UTC)

... and of August? --Hans-Jürgen Hübner (talk) 15:55, 28 August 2008 (UTC)

add Wikiprojects to stats site?

I'd also like to echo the positive feedback to your site. Very nice to know what is popular. Any chance we could have a function which indicates popularity of individual articles when you select down to a Wikiproject (i.e. Wikiproject Birds). Most articles have been assessed. We could then know what people are reading in our respective areas of expertise..... Pvmoutside (talk) 18:51, 1 August 2008 (UTC)

I will do those analyses for you in some days. --- Greetings, Melancholie (talk) 01:48, 16 August 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for taking care of stuff in my absence Melancholie! henrik•talk 18:22, 2 September 2008 (UTC)

Stats tool for page views

The stats tool stopped working for counts on pages after June 2008. The drop down menus extends to June 2008 and no later.

Yes I was just about to ask about this as well. Hello, may I find out when this will be updated or if there is another place to go. It was quite interesting to creat something and then see how many people are viewing it. It kind of makes it worth while knowing that someone is reading your material. Adam (talk) 03:29, 3 August 2008 (UTC)

Ditto - make that thank you very much - Smallbones (talk) 05:19, 28 August 2008 (UTC)

nice tool for vandals

thanks. HA! HA! HA! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 144.122.250.142 (talk) 12:25, 3 August 2008 (UTC)

hohoho, indeed. henrik•talk 18:23, 2 September 2008 (UTC)

He may not be coming back

He put up that vacation box (at top of page) July 1st folks. I wish I could take a long vacation. I bet he isn't coming back and so probably that is the end of the tool Chrisgj (talk) 00:49, 8 August 2008 (UTC)

Nah, I'm back now. I've had a long vacation (and it's taken me a while to get my gears back up and running after coming home. It's amazing what some time out in nature does to cure ones computer addiction). The stats has been offline due to the server running out of disk space and I haven't had the time to code up a more disk efficient solution until now. It's crunching the data for August now, and it should be up within a few days. Unfortunately about half of july is probably lost for good. henrik•talk 17:59, 2 September 2008 (UTC)

Oh well. Just another hole in the data. Equally unfortunately I anticipated this but only downloaded a few of the files that you already have, instead of all of July as I intended. Maybe someone else saved them. Delphi234 (talk) 01:00, 3 September 2008 (UTC)

Individual Page Stats for South Ossetia War

Dear Henrik,

Hi.

I am working on page usage of wikipedia as part of an academic research project on media and war. I was wondering whether I could stats on the page dedicated to the South Ossetia war - http://en.wikipedia.org/2008_South_Ossetia_War. I want to track these stats on a hourly basis if possible over the course of the month of August 2008. Any help would be gratefully received! Biologylessons (talk) 15:10, 12 August 2008 (UTC)

Biologylessons, if you ever hear back from Henrik about the stats for the 2008 South Ossetia war article, I'd love to know - I'm also extremely interested in taking a look at the page view metrics of this article! It boggles my mind that a page view counter isn't enabled for Misplaced Pages - we're running MediaWiki at work (an older version, no less!!), and the number of page views shows at the bottom of every page, plus we can look at weekly/monthly reports - clearly the capability is built into the software, but just as clearly, Misplaced Pages chooses not to make this information public - fie upon them!!! Akindofmagick (talk) 19:45, 15 August 2008 (UTC)

I will do that individual analysis for you! Starting with August 7. Will take two days before there are the first results, is that ok? --- Best regards, Melancholie (talk) 20:37, 15 August 2008 (UTC)

First day: 2008 South Ossetia war (protagonists (day before)); not yet interesting, event not yet resounded throughout the land on 2008-08-07... --Melancholie (talk) 20:56, 17 August 2008 (UTC)

Further comments: User_talk:Biologylessons#2008_South_Ossetia_war --Melancholie (talk) 23:29, 17 August 2008 (UTC)

Stats.grok.se problem

When the page is initialized, the month selected is May instead of July, and URL hacking for the current month doesn't work anymore. Could you please fix the page to be up-to-date? And don't remove the possibility to view stats for the current month by URL hacking, please. :-) Admiral Norton 23:16, 12 August 2008 (UTC)

In it.wiki, the month selected by default in Stats.grok.se is December 2007; July and August are not selectable, because unavailable in the list. Same request to above :-) Bye! --Roberto Segnali all'Indiano 04:33, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

Same request as above. Also, the July stats stop at about the 11th or 12th of July. Coincidently (???), this is August 13th. Perhaps the dates are a month off? davidwr/(talk)/(contribs)/(e-mail) 00:27, 14 August 2008 (UTC)

Henrik, please come home!! We neeeedd you to fix the stats.grok.se counter!!!! Akindofmagick (talk) 19:25, 15 August 2008 (UTC)

It'll be back soon! henrik•talk 18:24, 2 September 2008 (UTC)

Anyone fluent in Python who can fix the stats tool?

There is a script in the raw data for the stats tool. Anyone with the skill care to look at it and try fixing it and running it on your own web site? davidwr/(talk)/(contribs)/(e-mail) 00:33, 14 August 2008 (UTC)

The script you mean is not one of Henrik's; and it does not work properly (respectively it only works at the data source itself). I could extend my analyses to the functionality of stats.grok.se, but actually I still hope that Henrik will come back (by now even hoping that nothing bad happened to him during vacation)! --- Best regards, Melancholie (talk) 11:58, 14 August 2008 (UTC)

I agree Melancholie - I'm concerned, too. But the Wikimedia blog seems to give some indication that Erik Zachte] will start to keep page view stats, so there's hope no that front. Besides that - Henrik, where are you? Drop a line and let us know you are okay. --David Shankbone 20:45, 15 August 2008 (UTC)

I didn't mean to worry anyone! No, I'm perfectly fine - I've just been away for a long time (on several different trips), and didn't feel like using a computer all that much in the time I actually had internet access. Thanks for caring, it actually means a lot. henrik•talk 18:03, 2 September 2008 (UTC)

Welcome back, everyone needs a vacation from time to time. You can see from the response here how many people appreciate your work and your utility. Bubba73 (talk), 20:48, 2 September 2008 (UTC)

Thanks! Absolutely, the responses here heave been heart-warming. Thanks all. Plus I'm motivated to write an article or two now. I think it's time to try for a second little bronze star on some article in the near future. :) henrik•talk 20:51, 2 September 2008 (UTC)

It's great having you back from nature :-) --- Greetings, Melancholie (talk) 20:58, 2 September 2008 (UTC)

I blogged about you and the stats tool

Henrik, I blogged about your stats tool and the introduction of a page hits by Wikimedia. --David Shankbone 19:06, 16 August 2008 (UTC)

Oh my, that was quite a moving post and it makes me feel very bad for not checking in at all :) The stats will be back soon, but it sounds good that the foundation is putting up an official solution and not relying on, well, unreliable people like me. henrik•talk 18:14, 2 September 2008 (UTC)

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Wondering

Did you put somthing on Simple Misplaced Pages that made google as a default of searching? Because I dislike that =\ --Runningblader 00:47, 27 August 2008 (UTC)

Nope, not me. I have however made a small script that runs google searches, but (at least here on en) people have to install it manually. henrik•talk 18:04, 2 September 2008 (UTC)

Din statistiksida för Wikipediaartiklar

Hej,

Din utmärkta statistikservice för Wikipediaartiklar går bara fram till och med juni i år.

När kommer du att uppdatera den att också visa statistik för juli, aug och fram till årets slut ...?

De rådata statistiken baseras på finns ju på http://dammit.lt/wikistats/

Bästa hälsningar,

(Thebee (talk) 10:51, 27 August 2008 (UTC))

Hello, this is English Misplaced Pages.Chrisgj (talk) 17:55, 28 August 2008 (UTC)

Google translation: Translation: Swedish » English 199.125.109.65 (talk) 01:56, 29 August 2008 (UTC)

Your statistiksida for Wikipediaartiklar

Hello,

Your excellent statistical for Wikipediaartiklar goes only up to June this year.

When will you update it to show statistics for July, August and until the end of the year ...?

The raw statistics are based on are, of course, on http://dammit.lt/wikistats/

Best regards,

traffic

hallo henrik, is it possible to update this very interesting tool? (there is no july and august) thanks --62.143.249.236 (talk) 06:43, 28 August 2008 (UTC)

It'll be back within a few days. henrik•talk 18:10, 2 September 2008 (UTC)

Come on people READ these discussions before posting!

Read these discussions and you'll see over the last 8 weeks, at least a 9 people asking Henrik to update the statistics. If you read these discussions, you'll learn that Henrik is on a very long vacation and someone recently hired is supposed to get the statistics working again soon. Please, enough is enough already! Chrisgj (talk) 06:23, 29 August 2008 (UTC)

Would Henrik be OK if we put a notice box at the top of this page to explain the situation? That would help at least those users who can read. I must admit, I check pretty regularly to see if the tool is up again. It's all about me! :) Franamax (talk) 22:59, 1 September 2008 (UTC)

Many thanks, but I'm back now. I've coded up a more disk efficient solution for the stats tool and it should be back up and running again within a few days. henrik•talk 18:11, 2 September 2008 (UTC)

This is good news. I'd think you'll be able to fry eggs on top of the server for a few days, until pent-up demand is satisfied. Franamax (talk) 21:30, 2 September 2008 (UTC)

live edit counter

Can you please fix the {{User:Henrik/ubx/User contrib}} userbox? It's no longer showing live edit counts. Thanks. --Closedmouth (talk) 13:44, 1 September 2008 (UTC)

The reason is that query.php has been replaced by api.php, by the way (new: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=users&ususers=Closedmouth&usprop=editcount (with new syntax editcount="55486", not item(0) anymore); User:Henrik/js/live-edit-counter.js)... --- Best regards, Melancholie (talk) 21:05, 1 September 2008 (UTC)

I see. Do you know how to fix it? --Closedmouth (talk) 05:26, 2 September 2008 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages traffic statistics

Dear Henrik,

First of all let me thank you so very much for designing the wikipedia traffic statistics tool. It is indeed a very useful tool and helps us all to have an idea of the impact of our contribution to Misplaced Pages. I wanted to ask you a couple of questions. First, does your tool measure now unique hits? I have noticed that whenever I work on an article the amount of hits meassured are very high. Second, I am also very interested in learning more about the demographics of the wikipedia traffic to my articles, who are they? What age? How long do they stay? What references do they click on? Would it be possible to have a tool like this in the future?

I appreciate your time, Henrik, and let me thank you again for your useful contribution to the wikipedia universe.

Best, --anunezsanchez (talk) 14:18, 4 September 2008 (UTC)

Hi! It's good to be back :)

No, what is counted are page views, so if you look at page and then reload it it'll be counted as two hits. As you've noticed, editing the article will cause several views. Unfortunately, the data stored is pretty rudimentary - just views - nothing about who did it, who they are or where they are. Misplaced Pages gets up to 40-50 thousand hits a second during peak time, and there simply isn't enough server resources to do a detailed analysis of each view. Perhaps someone could write a tool to do that selectively for a sample of users, or for a certain article, but I don't really know of any such tools.

Thanks! henrik•talk 14:25, 4 September 2008 (UTC)

@How long do they stay: That is impossible to meassure accurately! Readers open pages in browser tabs/new windows or just go and drink/eat something (or do the reverse ;-) while having a page opened... @Who are they: That would be against policy ;-) @What age: How to figure out? The only tool I know is Demographics Prediction by Microsoft. @What references do they click on: That would be interesting, actually. --- Best regards, Melancholie (talk) 15:04, 4 September 2008 (UTC)

Assault

Hi, I think an image will be good for the article Assault. Is the Image:Girl sufferedwithburnwounds.jpg appropriate for this article? See this version. Otolemur crassicaudatus (talk) 06:15, 5 September 2008 (UTC)

I really have no opinion on this. Try asking on the talk page to get input from the other editors on that page? henrik•talk 12:27, 7 September 2008 (UTC)

Moving boobs 5000

Thanks for sending me that message. That was not me who did it, but I just checked the history and someone used my username. I have changed my password. I am very keen to get this fixed up because it indicates that someone was able to steal my password. It was a strong password too, made up of 8 letters and numbers. If possible please ban my account until this is sorted out. My blogsite is http://one-salient-oversight.blogspot.com/ so we can converse there. I repeat PLEASE BAN/LOCK MY USER ACCOUNT until this is sorted out. - User:One Salient Oversight —Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.170.197.211 (talk) 11:08, 5 September 2008 (UTC)

If you've changed your password already, everything should be sorted out and there's no need to block your account. You might have just accidentally left your account logged in on some computer other people have access to. henrik•talk 12:02, 5 September 2008 (UTC)

That assumes I use more than one computer. I don't. The last time I logged into Misplaced Pages under my username from a different computer was about 2 years ago. And even then the password was different to the one I just changed from. --One Salient Oversight (talk) 00:06, 6 September 2008 (UTC)

Hello!

Thank you for a truly amazing tool!

Cheers mate!

Λuα 13:47, 6 September 2008 (UTC)

Thanks! henrik•talk 12:26, 7 September 2008 (UTC)

Well, I am just being honest. :)

Out of curiosity, does the tool count the number of unique visitors or just how many hits?

Cheers mate!

Λuα 12:17, 10 September 2008 (UTC)

RE:Small note

I had given that editor multiple hints before he started to attack me. I told him what he needed to do on wikipedia via the helpful links, but he did not follow the hints. Then he tried to tell me, after I had given him the afd link, that I was out to personally destroy the article. If it looks like I bit him, then so be it. I don't like to come off like that, but he did not do the simple task of reading up on things instead of attacking me. Undead Warrior (talk) 20:30, 8 September 2008 (UTC)

Newsletter?

Have you considered publishing a little newsletter for your stats.grok.se tool? I've been working on a report using the data provided by this wonderful tool. It would be really helpful and convenient and tasty if you let me know when you upload all of September's data. And October's data. And so on. Wewt. --Cryptic C62 · Talk 02:43, 9 September 2008 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages article traffic statistics

Hello. I'd like to know what does exacly count the "Misplaced Pages article traffic statistics". Is it the numbers of click on one link, or is it each time a wikipedia read an article whatever he did to go there ? 92.134.222.148 (talk) 14:11, 10 September 2008 (UTC)

Update of Top

Could you update Top lithuanian lang. articles in your stats site, cuz last update is more than half year old (February). Thanks ;).--Pontiakas (talk) 16:28, 11 September 2008 (UTC)

Absolutely. Should be done by this weekend. henrik•talk 20:04, 11 September 2008 (UTC)

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AH-26 Jet Jeep

Hi Henrik Thanks for your help on this article but I'm going to have to start all over again. Some bloody idiot named DragonflySixtyseven moved the article moments after I finished it and deleted all my work. What's left is no longer accurate and shouldn't be displayed without major rebuilding, and I simply don't have the time for that today. I've gone to the discussion page for DragonflySixtyseven and it's crammed full of people complaining that he's moved or deleted their articles. I'm not sure if he's a vandal or just doesn't have the slightest idea what he's doing, but in either case he's destroyed a lot of floks hard work and seems to think he's acting as some sort of Misplaced Pages administrator. It would be terribly helpful if you know someone at Misplaced Pages who could shut this bloke down until they can sit down and have a chat with him about not messing with the articles. Reviewing his contributions, I can't see as he's done anything worthwhile on the site at all, just a lot of moving and damage that should be the sole duty of the Misplaced Pages staff. - Ken keisel (talk) 20:27, 13 September 2008 (UTC)