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I've temporarily removed the geonotice feature because [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia Takes Manhattan]] has been postponed a week to April 4, and the geonotice was advertising the wrong date. Wikipedia Takes Manhattan was the only geonotice active at this time, so there's no collateral damage. I'm waiting for Gmaxwell (or whoever else is technically able) to update the geonotice date ASAP, so that we can restore it. Thanks.--[[User:Pharos|Pharos]] ([[User talk:Pharos|talk]]) 05:07, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

:OK, I've restored it.--[[User:Pharos|Pharos]] ([[User talk:Pharos|talk]]) 05:56, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

::I would like to point out that due to browser caching, there is little chance that this actually had any effect for anyone. As a matter of fact for the people who DID actually download this "disabled" version, we might now end up with people who won't have this active for quite a while (not sure what the caching on this page is, but for Common.css its 30days ) --[[User:TheDJ|TheDJ]] ([[User talk:TheDJ|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/TheDJ|contribs]]) 11:38, 27 March 2008 (UTC)<span id="63335337396" ></span>

== pageview counter ==

Does anyone know what the "pageview counter" code does? I left a [[:de:Benutzer Diskussion:Leon#pageview counter|message on its author's talk page]], but he hasn't gotten back to me. —[[User:Remember the dot|Remember the dot]] ^{([[User talk:Remember the dot|talk]])} 19:40, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

I've tracked down its insertion to [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki%3ACommon.js&diff=71983634&oldid=71478135 August 26, 2006], but I still don't know what it's supposed to do. —[[User:Remember the dot|Remember the dot]] ^{([[User talk:Remember the dot|talk]])} 20:29, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

:It causes one in 6000 article views to be logged on the toolserver for the purpose of having approximate page view stats. I think this may be obsolete now that we have http://stats.grok.se/ [[User:Dragons flight|Dragons flight]] ([[User talk:Dragons flight|talk]]) 20:35, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

::OK, I've removed it per [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Remember_the_dot&oldid=210880645#pgcounter]. I think that [http://dammit.lt/wikistats/ this site] contains raw statistics collected by the Squid servers if we want to do page view statistics in the future. —[[User:Remember the dot|Remember the dot]] ^{([[User talk:Remember the dot|talk]])} 20:38, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

::Ah, http://stats.grok.se/ gets their statistics from http://dammit.lt/wikistats/. Interesting. —[[User:Remember the dot|Remember the dot]] ^{([[User talk:Remember the dot|talk]])} 20:39, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

:::The sad part, some projects already copied this part to their Common.js and probably banging toolserver with useless requests. —[[User:Alex Smotrov|AlexSm]] 20:42, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

(unindent) Just a bit of clarification. dammit.lt is the personal website of one of the Wikimedia sysadmins, [[User:Midom]] (who is also now a Board member). It counts page counts based on squid hits (or something). [[User:Henrik]] runs stats.grok.se, which pulls its data from Domas' (Midom). stats.grok.se now has an API to pull data, if anyone is interested. --[[User:MZMcBride|MZMcBride]] ([[User talk:MZMcBride|talk]]) 21:16, 7 May 2008 (UTC)