Talk:Uncyclopedia (en)

Sudden drop in Uncyclopedia stats

Hi, I'm guessing you know how things work around here.

That would be a safe guess! :-) 🐝 thingles (talk) 01:31, 21 April 2013 (UTC)

I recently updated the Uncyclopedia url to point to the new site after most of the contributors moved. I understand why the number of users dropped (we didn't import all the accounts), but why did the article and edit count drop so drastically? All of the articles were imported so that shouldn't have been a problem. Is the new site reporting something wrong? Legoktm (talk) 23:14, 20 April 2013 (UTC)

Hmmm. My tests show that User:Bumble Bee is definitely picking up the right data. Those numbers are retrieved by calling siteinfo in the MediaWiki API. Here is what they return:

http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/api.php?action=query&meta=siteinfo&siprop=statistics&format=json

{ "query" :
    { "statistics" :
        { "activeusers" : 370,
          "admins" : 38,
          "articles" : 30200,
          "edits" : 5682478,
          "images" : 95835,
          "jobs" : 0,
          "pages" : 345888,
          "tasks" : "354632",
          "users" : 7245284
        }
    }
}

http://en.uncyclopedia.co/w/api.php?action=query&meta=siteinfo&siprop=statistics&format=json

{ "query" :
    { "statistics" :
        { "activeusers" : 142,
          "admins" : 47,
          "articles" : 29802,
          "edits" : 5045208,
          "images" : 95855,
          "jobs" : 179,
          "pages" : 343235,
          "users" : 1250
        }
    }
}

That accurately reflects what is being graphed on Uncyclopedia. Not sure what to suggest. I know there are some maintenance tasks you can rerun to update those stats if they are not correct. I'm not familiar with them. If the new numbers are wrong and you get the API to reflect something more consistent with the previous number let me know and I can remove the dip in the chart after it corrects. However, it doesn't feel like this is erroneous stats data. 🐝 thingles (talk) 01:31, 21 April 2013 (UTC)

Thanks. I ran initSiteStats.php and that seems to have bumped up the edit count to somewhat reasonable levels, but put us at -1 active users. I think thats a MediaWiki bug though... Legoktm (talk) 11:04, 21 April 2013 (UTC)