User talk:Midom

[ 2005-01-29 archive ]

Stats and DBpedia

Hello, are there any updated aggregate of the data available here http://dammit.lt/wikistats/? I mean for example one file per day or (better) one file per month instead of one file per hour. We are trying to use those data for the a new feature of the DBpedia project (http://dbpedia.org)

Thanks!

Eugenio2 (talk) 11:28, 9 January 2009 (UTC)

@Eugenio2: See http://wikistics.falsikon.de/dumps.htm for that ;-) Monthly data for December will be added the next days there. --- Best regards, Melancholie (talk) 04:46, 10 January 2009 (UTC)

Thanks a lot! Eugenio2 (talk) 17:17, 13 January 2009 (UTC)

PostgreSQL

I'm interested in helping to get PostgreSQL support added. I started working on the installer and several of my other patches are already in CVS. What are you working on, and what is left to be done? I'd rather not duplicate effort. -- ChadMiller 21:49, 2005 Jan 19 (UTC)

Right now I was working on non-PG stuff, and all my PG work is already in database. I hope I'll be able to merge everything in. There's still some schema and other patches floating around, I've got to catch them all up. Domas Mituzas 10:38, 2005 Jan 29 (UTC)

lietuviska wikipedia

Sveikas, nezinau ar vietoj klausimas, bet turim lituviskoj wikipedijoj toki puslapi, kuriame lygtai tur?tu buti statistika, o realiai kiek atsimenu niekad nieko nebuvo. Ar tai susije su softu, t.y. ar kazka reiktu pakeisti, ar tiesiog lietuviskai wikipedijai nuspresta ta galimybe riboti? dirgela

tai kiek matau, ten kažkas yra, tik tiek, kad peržiūrų skaitliukas atjungtas (ir nelabai nori jį kas nors ijunginėti)... Domas Mituzas 15:31, 2005 Jan 30 (UTC)

Sveikas, prašau pažiūrėti [1] --AndriuZ 08:51, 9 September 2005 (UTC)

Vilnius, Vilno and whatnot

Hi there! I'm not as pro-Polish as it might seem. I simply don't like anachronisms and calling the Byzantine capital "Istanbul" is a mistake for me. Similarily, I have nothing against calling the modern city of Vilnius with its contemporary name in historical articles. Check User_talk:Meier for more details.

And I must say that I didn't get your "you should treat anon users as humans as well" remark. Could you explain it? --Halibutt 23:04, Mar 28, 2005 (UTC)

Ah, the revert reason was 'rv anon'. As if it was the main reason ;-) Domas Mituzas 06:31, 2005 Mar 29 (UTC)

Manyciau lietuviski straipsniai apie Giniota-Pilsudski ir Zeligovski yra netikslus, saliski ir net netinkamai isversti is anglisku versiju. Deja, redagavimai apie Pilsudski buvo atmesti. Remiantis dabatiniais Lietuvos [[istorikais][2]], - tai buvo pilietinis konfliktas, kurioje abi puses reme kaimynines valstybes. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Vaisvila (talk • contribs) 09:13, 25 October 2009 (UTC)

MogileFS in PHP & Wikipedia

Midom, I was checking out your cvs source for MogileFS (I assume you're source ;-): [3].

How far along with porting the client to PHP are you? The sections labeled "TODO" are they really to-do? Or are they all done? They look pretty good.

Is MogileFS on the list of stuff to eventually integrate into Wikipedia?

It looks pretty cool, I was thinking about using it in some of my code. Thanks!

- Ianneub 00:14, Apr 23, 2005 (UTC)

The MogileFS effort was directed to availability of any generic storage facility. The MogileFS extension itself has been done by JeLuF, though, I later tried to use it for MediaWiki. Anyway, there's another development effort in our camp, a distributed object system, a bit similiar to MogileFS, though, eliminates needs of SPOF (MySQL database for trackers). The ETA for it might be several months. The we sure will have generic storage implemented everywhere. And by the way, 1.5 MediaWiki (currently in alpha), already has ability to define external storage classes for Articles. Therefore you can have your wiki store archives or current articles on FTP/HTTP/MogileFS/distributed MySQL/BitTorrent ;-) Domas Mituzas 08:43, 2005 Apr 23 (UTC)

Holy cow, a bittorrent storage engine for articles? That's awesome. I wonder how well it will work in practice (too much latency?) Do you have any URLs describing the new distributed object system or annon cvs access? I'd love to poke around and see what it looks like. - Ianneub 20:07, Apr 25, 2005 (UTC)

BitTorrent was a joke. I just wanted to show flexibility of method behind. BitTorrent has very slow response time, so there has to be kind of different algorithms for that. But nobody told us it can't be distributed. And so far we're not considering involving software running on peers, just distributed on our servers. Domas Mituzas 05:18, 2005 Apr 26 (UTC)

Date/time format localization

It is irritating to see date parts ordered according to english rules in lithuanian wiki (not sure about other languages). Can we have this fixed? Or, at the very least, can we move to ISO Date/Time?

As for interface messages it is rather easy to use any rule we like. Where and what would you like to change? Domas Mituzas 10:42, 2005 May 21 (UTC)

Collapsing Wiki

I'll be the luckiest person on Earth if you are right and I am wrong :) But as they say - everything that has a beginning has an end. Most likely it's just my Lithuanian-pesimistic character :P Renata3 00:36, 4 September 2005 (UTC)

User login statistics

I run a genealogy wiki for my family, using the Mediawiki software. It is password protected, and I would love to be able to track user login statistics, such as who logs in and when. I have so far been unable to find any info on this anywhere. Any help would be greatly appreciated - thank you!

User:Alex Ramon

Slovene Wikipedia

As you're one of the developers I'm turning to you with request to translate some on MediaWiki software, used on :sl. As of now we're still using english command for categories, but we wish to use slovene version (Kategorija instead of Category); some of associated commands were already translated, but this wasn't. Another translation is of Template to Predloga. Regards, --Klemen Kocjancic 10:51, 21 October 2005 (UTC)

dėl lt.vikipedijos administravimo

Sveiki, mano IP adresą 213.226.190.45. arba vartotoją užblokavo LT srities administratorius User:Dirgela sekančią dieną po to kai User:Tractor emocingai suplakė į vieną krūvą asmenišką požiūrį ir kaltinimus dėl Wikipedijos taisyklių pažeidimų. Manau, kad mano indėlis rodo mano gerą valią, o kartais pasitaikančios klaidos nėra piktybinio pobūdžio. Todėl (su 6 valandas vėluojnačiu paaiškinančiu įrašu) blokavimas yra neadekvati priemonė.
Kadangi su šiais 2 dalyviais teko ginčytis ir anksčiau ir atsikirtinėti į asmeniškumus, manau, kad šiuo atveju tai yra dirbtinas priekabių ieškojimas ir asmeninių ambicijų lygio susidorojimas, neturintis nieko bendro su administravimu ar siekiais gerinti Lt.Wikipedija kokybę, nepuošiantis jų kaip administratorių ir pačios Wikipedijos Lt srities.
Prašau tarpininkauti šio ginčo sprendime. --AndriuZ 13:04, 9 November 2005 (UTC)

10 000 straipsnių, VIkipedijos populiarinimas

Citata: Kaip Eltai sakė interneto projekto techninės dalies vadovas Domas Mituzas, šiuo metu lietuviškoje "Wikipedios" versijoje - apie....

Matyti, kad turi patirties su žiniasklaida. Gal įmanoma susisiekti su ELTA, BNS ir kt agentūromis ir pranešti apie Vikipedijos sparčią plėtrą bei kreipiantis į visuomenę, paprašyti pagalbos redaguojant ir plečiant Laisvąją enciklopediją ? Ooom, 14:16, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

Favoritai

Kadangi tavo lietuviškam aprašyme buvo parašyta "Jeigu norite pakeisti kažką lietuviškos vikipedijos kode - rašykite į anglišką talk'ą", tad ir rašau. Nežinau kaip ten veikia ta wikipedija, bet manau, kad tai reikia keisti kode. Taigi, manau, kad vertėtų kokia nors funkcija kaip pvz. Add to Favorite, kad galetum įsitraukti straipsnį į savo asmeninį favoritų sąrašą ir galėtum lengvai ir greitai pasiekti reikiamą straipsnį.

Watchlistai? Userpage/favorites? :) Visa tai jau lyg ir yra. Domas Mituzas 10:20, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

merge

Hallo. i want to merge my two useraccounts. who can i ask, or wath can i do? De:Benutzer:Robinhood andDe:Benutzer:Robinhut --58.84.79.95 01:47, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

Certainly not me, I can offer not caring about that :) Domas Mituzas 06:28, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

ru adminship

Please revoke or ask stewards for revoke of your admin rights in ru:. MaxiMaxiMax 04:30, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

I see that you are a developer, so it's not a problem for you to change MediaWiki messages without sysop rights in ru. MaxiMaxiMax 04:59, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

Why do people care? Domas Mituzas 18:18, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

It's mostly to prevent questions to you from unexperienced users who are not aware that you are not a real admin in ru, I guess you cannot understand Russian, isn't it? Please revoke. MaxiMaxiMax 19:48, 19 August 2006 (UTC)

Actually my spoken Russian sometimes may be pretty fluent. :-) Domas Mituzas 20:36, 20 August 2006 (UTC)

Thanx. No problem - if you really want to be an admin in ru_wiki you have to ask for afmin status at ru:Википедия:Заявки на статус администратора, but at first you need to contribute for some time and have a number of edits. MaxiMaxiMax 10:07, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

Wikimania and photoes

Hey, that's Piotrus (the Polish guy), I am watching your photos at Flickr but can't find the one of Jimbo and me I think you took in the bar... have you uploaded it? Tnx! PS. Found it :D So kudos for uploading them :) -- _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus | talk}  17:13, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

You're welcome ;-) Domas Mituzas 23:42, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

User:D Hill

I have forgotten my password to my account, and have gave no e-mail adress. I asked for help, and was told that developers might be able to help me regain access to it. I saw that you have the highest level of access, and thought that you could help.

Checkuser reminder

Domas - you wanted me to remind you about this -- Special:CheckUser runs unbearably slowly (O(n) for all the recentchanges edits; roughly 3 minutes per query). It really needs to be indexed. Raul654 04:12, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

Schema Changes

I keep updating meta:Proposed Database Schema Changes, please keep an eye on it. Also i just saw someone post something about another index... :) --Yurik 18:59, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

Idiot attack

Urgent - some idiot(s) keep creating new accounts, possibly from different ips. Can you check -- http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%BB%D1%83%D0%B6%D0%B5%D0%B1%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%8F:Log/block. Thx. --Yurik 20:27, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

:((( Domas Mituzas 22:09, 15 September 2006 (UTC)

Wow, it only took you a month! :) --Yurik 06:33, 17 September 2006 (UTC)

Actually I was testing if editing works, after going readwrite :-) Domas Mituzas 09:33, 17 September 2006 (UTC)

Assistance with images.

Can you possibly get these images back? I am sorry about it, me getting these is crucial, I need them. They are:
File:Moreblah1.gif, File:Moreblah2.gif, File:Moreblah3.gif, File:Blah1.gif, File:Blah2.gif, File:Blah3.gif, File:Moreblahblah2.gif, File:Blah4.gif, File:Blah5.gif, File:Blah6.gif, File:Blah7.gif, File:Blah8.gif, File:Blah9.gif, File:Blah10.gif, Image:Blah11.gif, File:Blah12.gif, File:Lastblah.gif, and File:Blah7.gif. --RedPooka 04:23, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

Sidebar redesign

Hi, since you're a developer and everything, I was wondering if you could let me know about the feasibility of a sidebar redesign? — Jack · talk · 03:10, Monday, 19 March 2007

Sveikas

Sveikas, turiu tokį prašymą, gal čia visai ne į temą, bet tiesiog nebeturiu į ką kreiptis... Ieškau kokio nors extensiono, kuris automatiškai ant įkelto paveiksliuko uždėtu kokį nors užrašą, ar vadinamajį vandens ženklą, gal ką nors panašaus žinai? Būčiau labai dėkingas :) Beje, mano anglų kalba yra gan prasta, ta gal galėčiau paprašyti parašyti prašymą dėl toki extensiono, būčiau labai dėkingas, laukiu atsakymo, sėkmės ;) --88.222.212.231 13:36, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

Please contact me

Can you contact me regarding a mediawiki project? I would like to hire a developer that understands mediawiki well. bobbys (at) gmail dot com. Robertuva 04:28, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

program problem?

I have recently thought of something that could lock up the servers. What would happen if I put {{User talk:Midom}} on this page? If you don't know what I mean, let me know. Sincerely, Sir intellegent - smartr tahn eaver!!!! 21:49, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

Login unsuccessful

Hello, I am the User:Bababoum and have been unable to login since logging out sometime on Saturday. Even though I'm sure I have tried to log in with the correct password (my username), I requested to be e-mailed with a new password, but it said "There is no e-mail address recorded for user "Bababoum". I took this to the admins where it was discussed here, WP:AN#Login unsuccessful, and I was told that you would possibly be able to retrieve my account. They also said that my account may have been disabled due to having the same username/password, although I wasn't aware that this happened. If proof is needed that I am indeed that user, please check my IP address (apparently a 'CheckUser' would be able to prove this). Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you. 82.29.19.104 20:09, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

Prašymas peržvelgti situaciją lietwiki

Sveikas. Norėčiau tavęs, kaip Wikipedia steward'o paprašyti įvertinti situaciją, susidariusią lietuviškoje wikipedijoje, kurioje diktatūrines pozicijas užėmė lt:User:Knutux-lt:User:Dirgėla-lt:User:Nomad. Jie straipsniuse lt:Argentina, lt:Malvinų salos atlikinėjo vienašališkus pakeitimus, prieš tai jų neišdiskutavę aptarimuose, ignoravo mano nuomonę ir pozicijas. Galiausiai, man pasitraukus iš lietuviškos Vikipedijos buvau viešai apšmeižtas ir įžeidinėjamas bat-smg:Naudotojo aptarimas:Hugo.arg/Medžiaga civiliniam ieškiniui. Be to, visai be priežasties buvo užblokuotas lt:User:Algirdas, vien dėl to, kad pasipiktinęs esama situacija, siekė atsisakyti administratoriaus teisių. Labai būčiau dėkingas už padėties įvertinimą ir patarimus, kaip elgtis toliau. Hugo.arg 10:08, 21 June 2007 (UTC)

User account

Hi, I am User:Jalen, with accounts on Slovenian, English, German and Spanish wikipedias. I recently lost my password and have been unable to login. Would you be prepared to restore my account? I have some evidence to prove I am its owner. I have my e-mail address entered on the Spanish wikipedia (I received confirmation from wikimedia.org validating the identity of the username, the e-amil address and the IP address) and on the IRC.net where I use the same nick. A bureaucrat at the Slovenian wikipedia can also confirm my identity. Thanks. --84.52.134.168 07:49, 29 July 2007 (UTC)

FYI

I've put together this small statistics tool using the datadumps you publish on dammit.lt. henrik•talk 12:47, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

Message

Testing, per request. Picaroon (t) 23:50, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

Stats

Hi, I assume the access stats that you publish at your site dammit come from the server logs, which you as a developer can access. Are there any stats for user-agent too? I would be interested to see them. - Neparis (talk) 01:28, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

deflate compression in googlebot

Please see http://community.livejournal.com/evan_tech/245495.html -- you are mentioned as not replying to whether a proposed solution works after identifying the problem by one of Google's search engineers. SBPrakash (talk) 23:15, 11 March 2008 (UTC)

please participate in online meeting

Hi,
GerardM has given me your contact details. Because you are an expert in MySQL issues, would you be able to check into the discussion at an online meeting regarding African language dictionary development? Your help would be extremely useful. Details of the meeting are at http://kamusiproject.org/paldo
Many thanks, and hoping to "see" you in Ghana,
Malangali (talk) 19:30, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

PT community new feature

Hi. The wikipedia pt's community is debating if we should implement a wizard similar to Wizard-Introduction. The only difference would be that, after the unresgistered user completes the wizard, the new article would be immediately created rather than being sent to revision. Could you please let me know if this new feature can be implemented in wiki pt? Thanks and regards, --Rodrigofera (talk) 17:20, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

Hello Domas - Wikinews

User:Henrik said you were the person to speak to about data for compiling page stats for the English Wikinews. As you may know, we are a smaller project trying to grow a bit, but we have some trouble in figuring out what directions we should take. One tool that would help us immensely is if we could figure out what people are reading (and are not) on our site. Henrik said you were the Go-To-Guy about data. Is there a possibility we could get data compiled for the English Wikinews so that we could start looking at the readership stats? Any help would make you a hero on the Wikinews. Best, Dave --David Shankbone 20:56, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

Thats on my near-term todo list. :) 16:49, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

DONE!!! 19:24, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

Hourly usage

Hi,

I am looking for past hourly access logs (like the ones at http://dammit.lt/wikistats/ ), particulary I need for academic research the logs for March-April 2008 many thanks Giladravid (talk) 20:01, 1 June 2008 (UTC)

PERF

Hi! Let me quote few things from PERF: In the overwhelming majority of cases means that there's slight minority of cases that has different issues. On the rare occasion they occur, follow instructions from the system administrators who come in to pick up the pieces, and everything will be fine. - well, you just reverted one. Obviously you shouldn't do exactly the same thing again - but you did. listen to the system administrators if they tell you not to do something - it is even in bold. oh well. but the safeguards we have in place are not perfect. - indeed they are not, and thats why we have to do performance engineering. Domas Mituzas (talk) 08:22, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

Apologies, I did not realize that you were a developer. The only reason I put that code there was so that we wouldn't have to use an even more ugly and inefficient JavaScript hack to change the text on the main page's tab. I'm fine with you removing the code from MediaWiki:Nstab-main, but I am not going to let the JavaScript hack we used before back in. If there is demand for this feature then you developers will have to come up with some other way to implement it.

Anyway, happy editing, and I'll be more careful about reverting your edits in the future. —Remember the dot ^(talk) 01:00, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

Stats generation

I believe you had been doing a data dump that User:Henrik was using to generate http://stats.grok.se/ However, the stats seem to have stopped being generated on 12 July 2008.[4] Is that because you stopped generating them? 199.125.109.40 (talk) 13:42, 31 July 2008 (UTC)

Hi Domas, it seems that the http://dammit.lt/wikistats/scripts/builddaily script stopped working (daily and .stage were last written on June 20th). User:Henrik states on his user page that he is on vacation, may I therefore ask you to check into this issue? Kind regards, --Drahkrub (talk) 09:32, 14 August 2008 (UTC)

The reason seems to be that stats.grok.se harddisk is full. The raw data is still available. The builddaily script doesn't have to do with Henrik's analyses, by the way. They are based on the hourly logs, that actually fit needs best. (Side note: the surplus builddaily script seems to be too server intense; I already offered midom my resulting daily logs, as there would be even more things to log with his server, image usage etc.) --- Best regards, Melancholie (talk) 21:33, 15 August 2008 (UTC)

Wikinews has been hacked

[5] has been hacked with a message saying: "This is the Zodiac speaking. Do you think you cowards can run from me? No you cannot, for I am above mortal things. ЕНКЁШКААНЛЁПЕЦЦААЭАН ДАЛЫЧЫНВКЁШКАШЕАНЦА АМЫНЮЛЛЕЯЬЦЦЫМЬЫНЕ НКЫЫЪЕХЦЫЬЕНДЁЪПХЫ НЦЕХЁККААМПЫАКЮЫНКЁ ЛМЕЦЮХАЦЦАЁЪВАШМЕЯ АШЕЁННЫЫНХАЮШКААШ ЫНЮНПЫЦЬЫШЫЙЪЫЦЦ ЬЬЦЕХДЬШЕНПЙШЬККЫЁ НЦЙПЕЪЫЬШЫКЁЯА! " and more not included. Please notify the appropriate person. This is message is going to all system admins. Calebrw (talk) 04:57, 15 August 2008 (UTC)

Plain old template vandalism, nothing to worry about. -- Tim Starling (talk) 05:27, 15 August 2008 (UTC)

Vacation

Hello Midom,
I have read that you will go for vacation. I hope I'm not too obtrusive, but please ensure that disk space at http://dammit.lt/wikistats/ does not get a problem during your leave (do not know for how long you will be away, that's why...; n:Template:Popular_articles (used on main page there) should not break ;-) --- Wishing you nice holidays, Melancholie (talk) 23:13, 30 August 2008 (UTC)

http://dammit.lt/wikistats/ now has stopped updating again (20080914-090000)! --- Regards, Melancholie (talk) 19:18, 14 September 2008 (UTC)

Outage took until +/-20080915-140000 (one day), see also missed news. --- Regards, Melancholie (talk) 02:38, 16 September 2008 (UTC)

Nostalgia user count

Hello, I was told that you may be able to help me to count how many Wikipedia users on enwiki use the Nostalgia skin as the skin of their choice in their user preferences. The reason I want to know this is to be able to infer how much potential interest there would be for an improved Nostalgia skin or a new skin based on it, as I have started making some small improvements to it lately for my use and I may end up rewriting it or creating a new skin based on its looks. NerdyNSK (talk) 04:55, 9 October 2008 (UTC)

Wikistats failure

Hello midom,
please see dammit.lt/wikistats stopped working (there even is data corruption this time). --- Best regards, Melancholie (talk) 22:37, 21 October 2008 (UTC)

Hello again, see https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15177#c8. --- Best regards, Melancholie (talk) 20:11, 5 January 2009 (UTC)

Hello again, notified you on Meta this time (Enotif). --- Best regards, Melancholie (talk) 02:13, 2 February 2009 (UTC)

Your edits to nstab-main are being discussed

The editors on Wikipedia with bugzillia accounts have repeatedly asked the developers to fix the main page issue. Until they stop spitting WONTFIX at us we would like to be able to implement a simple parser to fix the problem. If it causes a problem, it can be reverted.--Ipatrol (talk) 22:18, 12 January 2009 (UTC)

Are you suggesting complicating the existing code even more, by adding some evil workarounds internally? Then Brion/Tim can help you. I'm just poor gatekeeper of performance. Domas Mituzas (talk) 09:01, 14 January 2009 (UTC)

pecl proctitle

Hello,

I'm Mark Karpeles, and I found interest into your pecl-proctitle located at http://wikipedia.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/wikipedia/trunk/extensions/pecl-proctitle/ . Since the project is pretty simple (and since most part has been rewrote since then) would you mind allowing this to be released under latest PHP License (3.01; currently licensed under version 2.02).

You can contact me directly via my wikipedia talk page. MagicalTux (talk) 20:16, 21 January 2009 (UTC)

Do I have to do anything to relicense? :) I hereby relicense it! Domas Mituzas (talk) 11:29, 2 February 2009 (UTC)

Edit re-assignment

Hello!

First of all, I apologize if you're the wrong person to ask this.

I recently had my user name changed from User:SWik78 to User:Big Bird. The rename was performed on January 18 but my edits still have not been re-assigned. I was advised to wait about a week and contact a developer if it had not yet been performed so here I am. If it's just a matter of time until the server gets around to perforimg this task, I don't mind waiting; I just wanted to make sure that the request didn't "fall through the cracks" or something else of that nature.

Thanks for your time. Big Bird (talk • contribs) 13:48, 26 January 2009 (UTC)

I am wrong person to ask this! Domas Mituzas (talk) 11:28, 2 February 2009 (UTC)

Physics traffic stats.

Could you set up a page like Wikipedia:WikiProject Astronomy/Popular pages for Wikipedia:WikiProject Physics, Wikipedia:WikiProject Physics/Taskforces/Acoustics, Wikipedia:WikiProject Physics/Taskforces/Fluid dynamics, and Wikipedia:WikiProject Physics/Taskforces/Relativity? These would be very usefull to have. Thanks.Headbomb {^ταλκ_{κοντριβς} – WP Physics} 07:56, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

You seem to want to talk to this guy -- Domas Mituzas (talk) 13:46, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

Alright thanks.Headbomb {^ταλκ_{κοντριβς} – WP Physics} 17:37, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

Popular pages

Can you set up WP:CHICAGO for the monthly most popular pages service?--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 05:50, 5 June 2009 (UTC)

Wikivoices

Hi Midom, I wanted to thankyou for signing up and we look forward to seeing you at the event.   «l| ?romethean ™|l»  (talk) 11:39, 18 July 2009 (UTC)

Inquery

Since I have heard it said that you might know more about the subject discussed in User_talk:AnomieBOT#Broken_references, I'd like to ask you if you can update me please on whether that problem is fixed already. Thanks. Debresser (talk) 16:09, 6 September 2009 (UTC)

Wikistats

Hi, I am de:User:Ben-Oni from the German Wikipedia. I am part of a group of users, who used the data you supply on http://dammit.lt/wikistats/ to create montly viewing statistics for the articles in a particular category (using a perl script) and we came to the conclusion, that the download times are the bottleneck, enforcing quite a long runtime. Would it be possible for you to supply a list of compiled data (just adding up all the views in the month for each article) at the end of each month? For us this would amount to a reduction of downloaded data from ~35GB to ~50MB which would be quite a relief. If there is already a source for such "compiled data" I would be grateful, if you could point me the direction. Cheers -- 77.137.25.155 (talk) 09:18, 2 October 2009 (UTC)

Hello, Midom! I have been thinking of writing a tool that makes use of the wikistats you accumulate and host. However, just as the user above, I would like to use the article view counts per month. I could of course download the roughly 36 GB dataset and process it by myself too, if necessary, but that seems like a hugely unnecessary waste of time and resources. So, perhaps you are willing to aggregate the hourly statistics once per month into a monthly article viewcounts? I have no doubt that I would not be the only one interested in that feature. (please please please please :) —Quibik (talk) 14:33, 30 June 2010 (UTC)

Disabling of WP:ADMINSTATS

I noticed that you fully protected User:JamesR/AdminStats so that the bot can no longer update the page. Can you tell me why you have done this? Just curious. Deli nk (talk) 20:21, 19 February 2010 (UTC)

Thats between me and JamesR. Site stability reasons, mostly. Domas Mituzas (talk)

old visits log packages

Hi Domas. Have you thought about uploading the old visits logs packages to archive.org (or something like that)? emijrp (talk) 15:20, 22 March 2010 (UTC)

I'm all for any spread of the data. I don't have time myself for that :-)

wikistats older files

Hi Domas, thanks for making the wikistats raw files available to the public. I'm just downloading them. Do you happen to have these before Oct/2009 -- thanks fij —Preceding undated comment added 11:03, 9 April 2010 (UTC).

Wikiproject medicine

We are currently working on a paper for publication. We are wondering if it is possible to figure out the sum of the pages views for all article pages that are part of Wikiproject medicine for a given month? One static number for a given month would be good. If we could look back in time and get a graph of the changing influence of WPMED on health care that would be incredible. Many thanks Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 17:56, 20 May 2010 (UTC)

Wikistats

Hi Domas, I see you get a number of questions about your WikiStats dump here. I've read through them all and haven't seen this simple query answered: How is one to interpret the filenames? For example "pagecounts-20100609-000000.gz", I assume, would be all hits that occured between 00:00:00 and 00:59:59 on 6/9/2010, and the locale would be UTC. One problem; this file is currently available (at a seemingly full 55MB), and it is only 00:46:00 UTC. So is it actually all edits that occured BEFORE the filename, but AFTER the previous filename? (or something along the lines, (i.e., "the hour that ended at..."). Thanks, 00:50, 9 June 2010 (UTC)

The hour that ended at, yes. Domas Mituzas (talk) 11:22, 9 June 2010 (UTC)

Wikistats currently defective?

Hi, there seems to be a problem with the most recent wikistats, with secondary tools like stats.grok.se exhibiting sharp drops in access numbers pretty much across the board. Example: enWP main page: June 10th: 4.5M hits, 11th: 2.8M, 12th: 905k. Similiar for deWP.

At the same time, the size of the generated pagecount files dropped below their usual 50+ MB, starting with pagecounts-20100610-190000.gz (42.1M), slowly dwindling away to currently 15–20 MB. Could you please take a look at this? Regards, —mnh·∇· 05:49, 13 June 2010 (UTC)

I just emailed a copy of your post to Midom since I'm not sure whether he reads this page on a regular basis. --Sitacuisses (talk) 06:36, 14 June 2010 (UTC)

He has already answered my mail. He says he fixed it, for now. --Sitacuisses (talk) 07:59, 14 June 2010 (UTC)

Thank you. Always nice to have problems fixed fast. Cheers, —mnh·∇· 22:13, 14 June 2010 (UTC)

It's not fixed. Maile66 (talk) 00:55, 15 June 2010 (UTC)

I agree. Hoping soon. Thanks. --KurtR (talk) 07:01, 15 June 2010 (UTC)

Damn, I thought I eliminated the root cause, will look at it more attentively today. Domas Mituzas (talk) 07:24, 15 June 2010 (UTC)

Figured it out - async logging pipeline had some sync blocking bottleneck added few days ago :) Domas Mituzas (talk) 22:13, 15 June 2010 (UTC)

Now it's worse. Instead of the stats dropping off, there are no stats at all for June 15. Maile66 (talk) 08:42, 16 June 2010 (UTC)

Depends where you're looking at, wherever I'm looking, there are full stats. Domas Mituzas (talk) 12:58, 16 June 2010 (UTC)

I think we still have some problems. Let's have you look at some obvious pages: Barack Obama would be one - when I look at the stats, it says June 14 was the last date for stats. How about this one: [6] Every page I look at, the more current stats are June 14. I can click on pages forever, and the last stats are June 14. Must be something wrong between what you look at, and what I look at. Could this have anything to do with the changes that went into effect yesterday? Maile66 (talk) 13:59, 16 June 2010 (UTC)

Well, at http://dammit.lt/wikistats/ there're up to date numbers. I don't know why they don't show up at http://stats.grok.se, I have nothing much to do with that project :-) Domas Mituzas (talk) 14:33, 16 June 2010 (UTC)

Let me make sure I have what you are telling me correct. Your gauge is http://dammit.lt/wikistats/ But as far as the individual history stat pages we look at, that's a different part of the project, and conceivably a different bug in the system? Maile66 (talk) 14:38, 16 June 2010 (UTC)

I publish stats to dammit.lt/wikistats - then they get consumed by various other projects, such as stats.grok.se. The process was broken at one point, causing bad files. I don't know why stats.grok.se is not working though ;-) Domas Mituzas (talk) 15:39, 16 June 2010 (UTC)

Thank you. Now I understand that it's stats.grok.se Maile66 (talk) 17:01, 16 June 2010 (UTC)

Data for last two days are back in stats.grok.se. Unfortunately still too low, about the half of normal size. --KurtR (talk) 03:36, 17 June 2010 (UTC)

Stats have been totally empty for past 4 hours. --Harriv (talk) 19:11, 16 June 2010 (UTC)

Noooeeesss, probably attached a debugger to a wrong process :-) Blame Tomasz! Domas Mituzas (talk) 08:42, 17 June 2010 (UTC)

And now it's stopped working at all since 6.00 (UTC). --Harriv (talk) 07:33, 17 June 2010 (UTC)

June 27 Stats down again

http://stats.grok.se seems to be down again, as of June 26. Please pass this along to whoever can fix it. Thanks. Maile66 (talk) 11:50, 27 June 2010 (UTC)

July 7 Stats

I know you probably get bugged to death with these notices. Nonetheless -- maybe you use these in order to actively notify you of things going wrong. Statistics haven't updated for about a day now. Thank you for this service. West.andrew.g (talk) 09:14, 8 July 2010 (UTC)

We had a power outage, that caused some data gap. Domas Mituzas (talk) 15:10, 8 July 2010 (UTC)

Unfortunately, still stuck on the 9:00 hour of 2010/7/7 West.andrew.g (talk) 22:21, 8 July 2010 (UTC)

What's the reason now? It's been three days without stats. Thank you kindly for your attention. 71.130.131.113 (talk) 02:52, 10 July 2010 (UTC)

Back up, I see! Thanks so much Midom for this service. If I can ever lend any software assistance to the cause of making this more reliable -- I'd be more than happy to. I rely quite heavily on these status for my research. Thanks, West.andrew.g (talk) 09:31, 10 July 2010 (UTC)

Stats Format - 4th column?

I don't know if I'm missing something obvious or if this is documented somewhere, but what is the fourth column in the stats files used for? e.g.

en United_States 3765 1767538192

Many thanks for this service! 81.136.198.184 (talk) 15:49, 13 July 2010 (UTC)

Ahh, found the answer at [7], never mind 86.9.199.94 (talk) 15:56, 13 July 2010 (UTC)

Your Userpage in DE:WP

We have received questions why a new user has the privileges of Administrator. If you dont mind, I would translate your introduction into German. Please give me a note in my german usertalk --Eingangskontrolle (talk) 18:37, 31 August 2010 (UTC)

Probably because I forgot to remove them once I was done with my cleanup :) Domas Mituzas (talk) 21:51, 31 August 2010 (UTC)

I was bold and added a short message explaining why you have sysop rights. Regards, --Church of emacs (Talk) 13:09, 1 September 2010 (UTC)

Stats (again) :-(

Hello Midom. Not sure if it is a problem you can help me or the admin of article traffic statistic (he isnt reachable). Fact: Whole July 2010 is missing. Also 7 days in August. Can you help? Thanks. --KurtR (talk) 07:02, 2 September 2010 (UTC)

new page patrol

Hi Midom, there's a discussion at Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#Increase_Special_New_Pages_from_30_days_to_60_days where we would value your input. Basically we would like either to extend the newpage patrol process to longer than 30 days or when the unpatrolled articles default to patrolled add a hidden category to them. ϢereSpielChequers 21:11, 4 October 2010 (UTC)

war on Cite/ {{citation}}: Empty citation (help)

I saw this, and thought you should look at this:

• Wikipedia:Centralized discussion/Citation discussion#Demo of specific proposal

There's a lot on that page, both above and below, but the gist of it was to move the elements of references from template args to reg-tag args and avoid most of the hit for parsing the templates. The external demo is down, but is was sweet. It still allowed the pumping of the reference through whatever template at the end of things, but without most of the server load. I think something along these lines is the future. A lot of people seem to have missed that this extension would allow whatever ref style to by applied to whole pages and could be driven by a user pref. Cheers, Jack Merridew 23:24, 14 February 2011 (UTC)

How to?

These, your words of wisdom I have installed on my User page for the edification of all for over a year now, but I am curious as to how matters have progressed since then. I won't miss an opportunity to edify more people, when there is the excuse that I have to fill you in on what I am talking about, so:

"A simple null edit takes ~500 bytes in revision table, ~500 bytes in cu_changes, 250 bytes in page, 700 bytes in recentchanges, 100 bytes in 'text', may grow external storage blob by few bytes or do a compressed text copy (depends). Multiply that by amount of replicas (nearly 10 for enwiki), and you get 20k per edit. A bot which does 5000 edits per day consumes at least 10MB of diskspace a day. Of course, thats just null edits - anything involving changes in links tables or bigger text differences do cost more. If anyone wants to see our core database dataset distribution, a somewhat old snapshot is at http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=pfjIQrTbpVkaIStok1hWAdg&hl=en - it doesn't show external-store use though. Cheers!" Domas Mituzas

Where might one access current information; most importantly, if there are many sources, the core database dataset distribution and non-text storage data. Anarchangel (talk) 01:43, 29 March 2011 (UTC)

Identifying the source of spikes

I was wondering if there is any sort of log information that would identify where spikes come from. Some are obvious, such as when an article appears on the main page or becomes the subject of a Google Doodle, but other times, an article will suddenly spike to 10x or 20x its normal traffic. Is it possible to show where the traffic is coming from, perhaps the top 1 - 5 originating sites? Thank you. Marrante (talk) 06:47, 26 May 2011 (UTC)

Interview at Wikimania 2011

Hi Domas. My name is Matthew Roth and I'm a Storyteller at the Wikimedia Foundation. I'll be traveling to Wikimania next month to collect stories for our 2011 Fundraiser. While there I'd love the chance to meet with you and hear your thoughts about Wikipedia. You're quite a legend around the office here, so it will be good to make your acquaintance in person. Please let me know if you're interested by emailing me at mroth@wikimedia.org. Thank you, Matthew (wmf) (talk) 21:24, 21 July 2011 (UTC)

Sure Domas Mituzas (talk) 10:44, 22 July 2011 (UTC)

Adding importance column to popular pages report?

Hi Domas, I see from the example WikiProject Birds popular pages that it's possible to include the page importance in the display. Could I request the same for WikiProject Opera? Thanks! Scarabocchio (talk) 20:15, 7 December 2011 (UTC)

Cuisinart statistics seem wrong

Cuisinart was only edited four times last year, it has seven sentences, 1.7 KB, 2 refs, 2 ELs, a photo, and a navbox. How can it possibly get a million hits per month? It's not consistent with the 5 AFT reviews the article has received.

I found this in the raw hourly squid log data, so I thought it would be best to ask you even though someone else asked at User talk:Henrik#Cuisinart counts seem wrong. Npmay (talk) 20:45, 12 March 2012 (UTC)

It is not "wrong" - someone is actively refreshing that page all the time. All requests are coming from single IP, and have referer header pointing to the product website. I guess they're inflating their stats that way :-) Domas Mituzas (talk) 08:47, 13 March 2012 (UTC)

You set free the wiki

So a kitty is in order.

Krinkle (talk) 14:34, 5 July 2012 (UTC)

Page view anomaly

Clearly inter-related:

• http://stats.grok.se/en/latest90/Best
• http://stats.grok.se/en/latest90/Price
• http://stats.grok.se/en/latest90/Cheap

That many excess page views has to be costing at least a few extra dollars. Also asking at WP:VPT#Page view anomaly in case you don't watch here. —Cupco 02:46, 17 September 2012 (UTC)

Looks like that is coming from blog spam (and very few IPs) - requests are coming from Wordpress, probably trying to validate links or something like that. Domas Mituzas (talk) 10:31, 17 September 2012 (UTC)

It's not going away. It's getting worse. Also, http://stats.grok.se/en/latest90/Discount

Is there someone at the Foundation who can reach out to Wordpress and ask them to try to track this down? Since it's likely spam related, I doubt they'd mind, and it's costing them the same bandwidth. —Cupco 17:41, 21 September 2012 (UTC)

Elocution is the latest obvious abuse from somewhere. Please inform the appropriate Foundation person(s). I don't know anyone there, I just monitor [8] instead of reading newspapers. 199.16.130.122 (talk) 21:40, 17 October 2012 (UTC)

Page View question - Redirects

Quick question about the pageview data. I am a PhD student at the University of Michigan, hoping to use this data for a couple different research projects. I just want to make sure I know how redirects are handled in the pageview data. For example (and there are many examples), if you type in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Individual_Retirement_Account, the page you land on tells you "(Redirected from Individual Retirement Account)". If you type in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Individual_retirement_account, it does not say anything about being redirected. In the pagecount data, there is an entry for Individual_Retirement_Account as well as Individual_retirement_account. When I see that Individual_Retirement_Account has 17 views, and Individual_retirement_account has 10, were there really 17 people (I understand they are not unique, and someone could just be refreshing the page) that looked at those two sites, or are some of those page-views the result of the redirect? The same goes for page titles with differences other than just capitalization (for example, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_trusts and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_trust). Thanks! Jlamro (talk) 13:47, 22 October 2012 (UTC)

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G-force pageviews: way over historical averages but with weekly periodicity

Would you please take a look at the referrers for http://stats.grok.se/en/latest90/G-force and see if it's being gamed? WP:5000 has it as the 15th most popular article, but it didn't even make the top 1000 at http://stats.grok.se/en/top in 2010. The very odd thing is that it has a 7-day weekend periodicity which all of the obviously manipulated junk like http://stats.grok.se/en/latest90/Cat_anatomy does not. Who would do such a thing? Why? (I ask of both of those articles.) 71.212.255.225 (talk) 05:13, 22 March 2013 (UTC)

Tracking links to Wiktionary

Hello - I was referred to you by User:Killiondude over at Wikipedia:Village pump (technical), where it was suggested that you might be able to help with the following question: I was wondering if you knew how to track traffic stats for Wiktionary, especially counting clicks on links via template from a Wikipedia page to a Wiktionary entry (i.e. how many times {{wiktionary|dictionary}} gets clicked from the Dictionary (disambiguation) page). I'd appreciate any thoughts or help! Dohn joe (talk) 23:59, 13 May 2013 (UTC)

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Oh noes Domas Mituzas (talk) 23:45, 25 December 2015 (UTC)

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BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHA, for the record: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Archive280#Admin.28.3F.29_Midom_causing_disruption_on_Occitan_Wikipedia - BWAHAHAHAH Domas Mituzas (talk) 21:29, 25 April 2016 (UTC)

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