I'm terribly impressed. Your skills are not only way beyond me but you continue to improve on them to our benefit.Thanks for all that you do. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mary Sue Ittner" <msittner@mcn.org> To: "Pacific Bulb Society" <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org> Sent: Monday, November 22, 2010 10:29 AM Subject: [pbs] PBS Wiki Statistics > 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/