Talk:Wikipedia usage statistics

Any answers? Jimbo?

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anonymity of both ip and names
however, traceability must be done on ips and names to follow long term pattern, not single-connexion pattern.

A hit on a page has significance in terms of accessibility, but does not give any indication whether the page has been read or not. Could measure also : the time spent on one page, the position of the next link followed in the page (top 10 lines, body of text, see also, external link).

Following users is bound to promote troubles.

A softer option would be to follow pages instead or user perhaps. % of incoming origin for that specific page (internal or external access, from which internal page or which external page, from search box and with which searched word, time spent on the page, position of the links followed after access to that page....).
This could be set up without fear for privacy issues. The information is not as rich maybe, but still could be very interesting, and made available to all.

Shouldn't this possibility be mentioned here? : http://dumps.wikimedia.org/other/pagecounts-raw/