There may be a bug in the statistics script. On August 30, 2002, EdSkinner edited the Wikilearn.Xml page, but he has never shown up in the list of top contributors on the Wikilearn.WebStatistics page. (And yes, one edit will get you on the top contributors list on WikiLearn )

-- RandyKramer - 01 Sep 2002

I had a quick look at this but there's a problem with RCS on my laptop TWiki at the moment. Is it just non WikiWord topics that are affected?

-- RichardDonkin - 02 Sep 2002

Yesterday (after writing the report above) I tried editing Wikilearn.Mount and Wikilearn.Xml. My edits to Wikilearn.Mount were found by the statistics script. I think my edits to Wikilearn.Xml were also found by the statistics script, but at one point I got a little confused and one edit may not have been counted by the statistics script.

Aside: Before you start reading the following, recognize that I don't think it has anything to do with the problem reported above -- it's just an odd behavior that I noticed and thought should be mentioned somewhere in case it is a clue to something else.

I got a little confused by some strange behavior of the back button (I use <ctrl><left arrow>). I had one tab in Mozilla (0.9.8) open to Wikilearn.WebStatistics, and as I edited pages in another tab, I went back to that tab and alternately forced an update and viewed the WebStatistics. If I used the back button multiple times, like to go back through several iterations of the WebStatistics and "force update" pages, I found that the "older" statistics pages updated to show the most recent statistics, until I had paged back far enough to get to the original WebStatistics page.

To clarify: If the first time I called up WebStatistics there was one edit credited to me, then 2, 3, ... 6, when I used the back button to go back, on subsequent "iterations" of viewing the WebStatistics page, I would see myself credited with 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, and finally 1 edit (instead of the expected 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1).

The behavior surprised me, but doesn't really cause me any major problem, and I suppose it is explained by some of the issues around caches and so forth, but I just thought I'd mention in case the information is useful for any other reason. I don't think it is relevant at all to the problem of the edit by EdSkinner not having been picked up by the statistics script.

-- RandyKramer - 02 Sep 2002

BTW, Richard (or anyone) -- if you do dig into the logs further to investigate this, and it's convenient, I am curious to find out the name of the page(s?) that keeps showing up on WebStatistics without a name. See the statistics for August and the page that shows 119 hits.

Nothing really urgent though, someday I'm sure I'll go looking for the TWiki logs and figure it out for myself. (I think )

I suppose it might be another bug, but I suspect I've just violated the TWikiWord naming convention rather thoroughly. (I've done some testing near the beginning of months -- AFAICT, it's not due to:

• a one word page name
• a name that begins with a number
• a name that begins with lowercase

But, I may have screwed up in my testing.)

-- RandyKramer - 03 Sep 2002

The latest statistics script, now in TWikiAlphaRelease, fixes the 'page with no name' bug - this is in fact the count of all pages that have invalid names in some way. The fix is to just ignore such pages - if you set $doDebugStatistics it will log such files to debug.txt so you can see what it's complaining about.

Pages that aren't valid WikiWords or Abbrevs are not counted in statistics, so this also explains the issue you had with the Xml page. It would be good to count such pages as well, so for those who want this I've added a commented-out line in the statistics script - search for 'relaxed topic names'. Such topics won't be auto-linked, because that would be quite a bit more code, and this behaviour is not the default of course, but it is easy to enable now.

Thanks for logging this btw, I noticed the same empty page name problem when doing the I18N support for this script.

-- RichardDonkin - 08 Dec 2002

Richard,

Thanks for the fix and the explanation!

-- RandyKramer - 09 Dec 2002

Now updated in CVS so that all non-space-containing topic names are valid. When I get back from holiday, I'll put in a fix that will auto-link such topics, which is not that hard as it turns out.

-- RichardDonkin - 11 Dec 2002