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648 bytes added, 19:25, 11 November 2009
/* WikiFactor and caching */ You can use Google Analytics to measure as accesses to it are not affected by caching.
:One could just as easily argue that if a page was ''not'' cached then the statistics would be skewed. If someone has already seen a page (and thus forms part of their cache) then viewing it again is not a fresh view with a fresh pair of eyes. All said and done, if everybody has the same working conditions (i.e. their wiki does perform caching) then, with regard to the wikiFactor, everybody is working on a level playing field. --[[User:Spud Gun | <b><FONT COLOR="#8B3A3A">Carl McBride</FONT></b>]] ([[User_talk:Spud_Gun |talk]]) 10:18, 14 August 2009 (EDT)
 
:There ''is'' something that can be done - use a tool like [[Wikipedia:Google Analytics|Google Analytics]] ([[mw:Extension:Google Analytics Integration|extension]]) to track website usage. This is triggered on each access, regardless of whether a page has been served from a cache. To me, this is the right way to do it - after all, a citation is still counted even if someone copied it from another paper's list of citations. Those wikis using caching are the very ones that you would expect to have a high wikiFactor - some get hundreds or even thousands of HTTP requests a minute. [[User:GreenReaper|GreenReaper]] 14:25, 11 November 2009 (EST)
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