Hi,

PmWiki which is the wiki software we are currently using has many recipes
you can add to create new features. We have tried to keep our wiki simple
so haven't added a lot of them although from time to time David Pilling
has found ones that we think are useful and installed them. A little more
than a week ago he added a recipe that allows us to look at how many times
each page is accessed. In a little over a week there have been 42,664 page
views at my last look. I believe this justifies all of the time that has
been put into creating the pbs wiki.

Our previous wiki kept track of how many hits each page got and we had a
Most Popular page so you could see which pages were viewed the most often.
Although this might seem to be a way of determining which bulb was most
popular, since a lot of the people who viewed the wiki are referred by a
Google search engine, the more unusual bulbs would have less competition
for pages to find information so could get more hits. In addition we have
split up a lot of the pages that we have a lot of pictures of so each page
won't take so long to load and sometimes adding a hybrid page to
distinguish from the species page, so have multiple pages for :
Albuca, Allium, Alstroemeria, Amaryllis, Arisaema, Babiana, Brodiaea,
Calochortus, Colchicum, Crinum, Crocus, Cyclamen, Cyrtanthus, Delphinium,
Drimia, Erythronium, Favorite Blue Bulbs, Favorite Orange Bulbs, Favorite
Pink Bulbs, Favorite White Bulbs, Favorite Yellow Bulbs, Fritillaria,
Geissorhiza, Gladiolus, Haemanthus, Hesperantha, Hippeastrum, Homeria,
Hymenocallis, Iris, Ismene, Ixia, Lachenalia, Legacy Bulbs, Lilium,
Mendocino Sonoma Coast, Moraea, Narcissus, Namaqualand, Nerine,
Ornithogalum, Oxalis, Pelargonium, Roggeveld, Romulea, Sparaxis, Tigridia,
TOW (Topic of the Week), Trillium, Triteleia, Tritonia, Tulipa, Watsonia,
Zephyranthes

For some of these we may have just one or two extra pages and for others
we have a lot of pages. Allium, Arisaema, Calochortus, Crinum, Crocus,
Fritillaria, Gladiolus, Iris, Lilium, Narcissus are a few of the ones with
many pages. So to measure their popularity you'd have to add up all the
hits for all the pages.

When we changed to the new wiki I saved the most popular page from the old
wiki. The thirty pages with the most hits in the old wiki in order were:
HomePage
MostPopular
PhotographsAndInformation
Iris
Nothoscordum
Lilium
TitleSearch
RecentChanges
Hippeastrum
HardinessZoneMaps
Alstroemeria
Crocus
Zephyranthes
BeardlessIrises
Curcuma
Tigridia
Freesia
Amaryllis
MendocinoCoastBotanicalGardens
Oxalis
UploadFile
Nerine
NarcissusHybrids
Hymenocallis
Ornithogalum
Scilla
Crinum
Tulipa
SouthAfricanOxalis
Begonia
Alocasia

If you are interested in seeing the 30 pages that were viewed the most in
the past week you can add to any wiki page:
?action=totalcounter
It will also tell you the pages viewed that day and the referral sources
and a number of other things. You can expand beyond 30 by adding the
number you want to see to this &TotalCounterMaxItems=
For example:
<http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/…>
will allow you to see a count for the hits for 500 wiki pages (if that
many have had hits) since David added the counter. You can see if the same
things are still the most popular (and many of them are).

This recipe seems to self destruct over time so we don't know how long it
will last, but in the meantime I am finding it very interesting. We hope
it will encourage some of you who are just adding photos to your own
websites to learn how to use the wiki and help us fill in our missing gaps
and make this an even better resource.

Mary Sue

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