Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Started/@comment-28736347-20141213160946/@comment-452-20141214142319

I save the daily emails, and every now and then process them with a script to give me some graphs.

Back when wikia updated mediawiki to from 1.16 to 1.19 (or whatever the versions were), half of Special:WikiStats stopped working, and a couple of people complained loudly, including myself.

At the time, they claimed that it was going to be updated/replaced with a better stats page, which sated the people complaining.

I know it's been at least a year since they said that, so that means it has probably been over 2.

When they introduced WAM, I thought maybe that was what they were talking about, and they mentioned extended it to give individual communities more statistics, and adding graphs - but this looks like just another "deploy and abandon" feature.

edit: I reported the WikiStats problem on 2012-07-13

On 2012-08-20, they said:
 * I have talked to our engineers and we have decided to not fix the namespace bug on WikiStats. WikiStats is going to be replaced not too far down the road - it has reached the point where both the code is getting too old and the data collection methods are not efficient - and we are going to introduce some exciting analytics tools soon.

Emphasis mine, obviously. Apparently "not too far down the road" and "soon" in WikiaSpeak translates to greater than 2 years.