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by qznc 4586 days ago
You can get the page view logs. You can filter out most of the garbage that way.

http://dumps.wikimedia.org/other/pagecounts-raw/
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tommorris 4586 days ago
Justin Bieber: 594,757 views in the last month.

Origin of birds: 8,506 in the last month.

Ogden L. Mills (secretary of the US Treasury under Herbert Hoover): 399 views in the last month.

What is in the public interest is not the same as what the public show an interest in. Page views won't necessarily help you filter Wikipedia...

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qznc 4585 days ago
With filtering I was thinking about discarding everything with less then 10 views. I consider all of your examples relevant. Getting rid of pages like "Wikipeida_suxxxs" is the first step.
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tommorris 4584 days ago
If those pages exist, it would be awesome if you could notify admins and we'll delete them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:CSD

Just edit the page and {{db-nonsense}} {{db-test}} or {{db-vandalism}} as appropriate. :)

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