Wikipedia article traffic statistics

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This site is a mere visualizer of that data. </div> <div style="margin: 25px 0 10px 0;"> <b>Q:</b> What is the logic for redirects and when a page gets moved do the stats move? </div> <div style="margin-left: 10px"> <b>A:</b> It counts the title the page was accessed under, so redirects and moves will unfortunately split the statistics across two different statistics pages. </div> <div style="margin: 25px 0 10px 0;"> <b>Q:</b>Is the data reliable? </div> <div style="margin-left: 10px"> <b>A:</b> It is easily susceptible to deliberate attacks and manipulations, but for most articles it should give a fair view of the number of views. I wouldn't base any important decisions on these stats. </div> <div style="margin: 25px 0 10px 0;"> <b>Q:</b>I have another question or comment! </div> <div style="margin-left: 10px"> <b>A:</b> They should be directed at <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160403203408/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Henrik">User:Henrik</a> on Wikipedia. </div> </body> </html> <p style="font-size: 0.7em"> <a href="/web/20160403203408/http://stats.grok.se/about">About these stats</a>. The raw data is available <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160403203408/http://dumps.wikimedia.org/other/pagecounts-raw/">here</a>. This is very much a beta service and may disappear or change at any time. </p> </body> </html>

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