Forum:Most visited pages gone?

Special:Mostvisitedpages doesn't seem to be a special page anymore, is it coming back, was it a bug, or is it gone? Imanie 01:22, August 29, 2011 (UTC)


 * You may be thinking of Special:PopularPages which also doesn't work on Wikia. You should ask Wikia at Special:Contact. After doing a little research it appears that Special:PopularPages was removed either late in version 1.15 of the MediaWiki software or 1.16. -- Fandyllic (talk &middot; contr) 28 Aug 2011 10:16 PM Pacific

This question was answered in the Wikia IRC channel: [2011-08-24 14:35:25]  Let's ask sannse. Do you know why Special:Mostvisitedpages is gone? [2011-08-24 14:35:43]  Mostvisitedpages was removed like a week ago in TRAC [2011-08-24 14:36:23]  http://trac.wikia-code.com/changeset/41017/ [2011-08-24 14:40:02] so it seems the script that updated that has been broken for some time... but the special page was on - so the data was misleading [2011-08-24 14:40:33] they took it out the special page recently to review [2011-08-24 14:41:19]  So it's just going into the shop, hopefully to be fixed? [2011-08-24 14:41:42] not likely [2011-08-24 14:42:05] its a very old crude code, being very much replaced by newer things that scale better to hundreds of thousands of wikis [2011-08-24 14:42:52]  Well, I guess that's better than something that doesn't work :P [2011-08-24 14:42:57] lots of bits of old cruft will start getting cleared out over the next few weeks --Gardimuer { ʈalk } 19:22, August 29, 2011 (UTC)


 * That's a shame. That was a useful special page. Hopefully there will be some other way to see page views in a list. --VS3025 22:38, August 29, 2011 (UTC)


 * There are special pages that have a similar function, though not identical.
 * For example, Special:WikiStats/latestview shows how often pages have been visited recently. Special:Top/most visited gives an ordered list of the most visited pages, from most visited to least. --Gardimuer { ʈalk } 01:01, August 30, 2011 (UTC)


 * On Wikipedia, where most code is taken from anyway, or was originally, they have it where you click History, and then you can click Page Views, and it'll show you the information for that article. They also have a place to view the page hits of the most popular pages.  Anyway, they need to copy that code over.  This was a useful feature to have.  Most visited isn't really helpful without a number of how many people visited it, and latestview is useful for the top ten pages visited most recently.   D r e a m Focus  01:28, August 31, 2011 (UTC)