Ecstatic Gaucho

There’s a new a gadget that shows you how many hits each wikipedia page gets built by a very clever developer fella by the name of Domas Mituzas. He says the program ‘access[es] statistics from wikipedia’s squid cluster’ and simply produces a visual representation of this ’squid cluster’, which I suppose must be a vast database of statistics.

I wondered what sort of a readership some the pages I’ve written have received. It turns out Alfred Sorensen was viewed 149 times in September, Bob Roberts (Folksinger) received 194 hits and my most popular page United States v Canada (1844) got 500. Wowzers, what popular topics! I’d be happy if these obscure topics could read the popularity of even the International Year of the Potato - 3569 hits.

Here’s the top ten, as of August, 2008:

1. Special:Search 432,012,353
2. Main Page 194,201,739
3. Special:Random 44,780,773
4. 2008 Summer Olympics 4,437,251
5. index.html 4,350,551
6. Wiki 4,030,068
7. Sarah Palin 4,004,853
8. Special:Watchlist 3,646,671
9. Michael Phelps 3,476,803
10. YouTube 2,685,316

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