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W00t the tech report as a succinct list is back. —Ynhockey ^(Talk) 13:30, 8 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Not sure I like this BOT report -- Page view statistics[edit]

For one thing no one reads the feedback, or answers questions here. I came here hoping to find information about the problematic Page view statistics after asking over and over at:

the village pump
the help desk
the creator's talk page
Signpost suggestiions

but this place seems just as deserted (for this purpose) as the others. Ottawahitech (talk) 14:58, 8 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@Ottawahitech: We're a fistful of editors managing a widely-distributed weekly publication in our free time, we just don't have the manpower (or, in this case, the technical knowledge) to get everything we want published published. We really, really wish we had a regular tech news columnist, but we don't, because no one has come in to fill those shoes. In the absence of a regular column a bot report will do. ResMar 04:11, 12 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

As for page view statistics, they appear to be working to me. ResMar 04:13, 12 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Wandered in here via a 'Wikipedia:Page view statistics' search; wasn't able to tell what @Ottawahitech:s complaint was (didn't like whole idea of statistics, was how I first read it); found a 2014 complaint of Ottawa's here; and that it was operational problems in a well-liked system that was the complaint. Back to present: It's a system which to my purposes is currently suffering another outage as noted here by me and a few others. @Resident Mario: Since the complaint there and the one fielded here have maybe a theme -- stretched volunteer talent -- in common I thought I'd do this little review/elaboration for the record. Cheers, all. Swliv (talk) 15:08, 2 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]