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I reached 3 million views on my [http://cs.smith.edu/dftwiki/index.php/Main_Page wiki pages] this week. Not a huge accomplishment, but in some ways a validation that '''wikis''' provide a convenient and effective way of storing information. I always recommend wikis to people in need of a system for cataloguing various documents that can easily be '''uploaded''', '''created''', '''edited''', and '''deleted''' when needed. | I reached 3 million views on my [http://cs.smith.edu/dftwiki/index.php/Main_Page wiki pages] this week. Not a huge accomplishment, but in some ways a validation that '''wikis''' provide a convenient and effective way of storing information. I always recommend wikis to people in need of a system for cataloguing various documents that can easily be '''uploaded''', '''created''', '''edited''', and '''deleted''' when needed. | ||
| − | I use my main wiki system ([https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki mediawiki's] excellent wiki package) for class material, research, and to document various computer-related recipes or solutions I come up with from time to time, and that I know I will need in the future. I have all my syllabi, course material, homework, solutions, exams dating back to 2005 on line. Pdfs of most of my research papers. [http://cs.smith.edu/dftwiki/index.php/Tutorials Tutorials] I create mostly for myself on about every new language or computer system I teach myself. These tutorials, actually, contribute to the most of the 3,000,000 views I logged. Google Analytics is a nice tool to figure out how a set of Web pages is accessed. 85% of accesses to my pages are from Web searches, 10% from referrals from other pages (possibly mine). The most popular pages are for my [http://cs.smith.edu/dftwiki/index.php/Tutorial:_Arduino_and_XBee_Communication Arduino-XBee tutorial], indicating a strong interest in micro-controllers out there, and for my cloud-computing pages on the use of [http://cs.smith.edu/dftwiki/index.php/Tutorials#Hadoop.2FMapReduce_Computation_at_Smith_College Hadoop]. | + | I use my main wiki system ([https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki mediawiki's] excellent wiki package) for class material, research, and to document various computer-related recipes or solutions I come up with from time to time, and that I know I will need in the future. I have all my syllabi, course material, homework, solutions, exams dating back to 2005 on line. Pdfs of most of my research papers. [http://cs.smith.edu/dftwiki/index.php/Tutorials Tutorials] I create mostly for myself on about every new language or computer system I teach myself. These tutorials, actually, contribute to the most of the 3,000,000 views I logged. Google Analytics is a nice tool to figure out how a set of Web pages is accessed. 85% of accesses to my pages are from Web searches, 10% from referrals from other pages (possibly mine). The most popular pages are for my [http://cs.smith.edu/dftwiki/index.php/Tutorial:_Arduino_and_XBee_Communication Arduino-XBee tutorial], indicating a strong interest in micro-controllers out there, and for my cloud-computing pages on the use of [http://cs.smith.edu/dftwiki/index.php/Tutorials#Hadoop.2FMapReduce_Computation_at_Smith_College Hadoop]. More details on the statistics can be found [[Special:Statistics | here]]. |
Note that not all of my pages are public, as I protect some of them (for example homework solutions) and restrict them to either myself only, or to computers with a given IP address (only Smith college campus, for example). | Note that not all of my pages are public, as I protect some of them (for example homework solutions) and restrict them to either myself only, or to computers with a given IP address (only Smith college campus, for example). | ||
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3 Million Views
Aug 22, 2014
I reached 3 million views on my wiki pages this week. Not a huge accomplishment, but in some ways a validation that wikis provide a convenient and effective way of storing information. I always recommend wikis to people in need of a system for cataloguing various documents that can easily be uploaded, created, edited, and deleted when needed.
I use my main wiki system (mediawiki's excellent wiki package) for class material, research, and to document various computer-related recipes or solutions I come up with from time to time, and that I know I will need in the future. I have all my syllabi, course material, homework, solutions, exams dating back to 2005 on line. Pdfs of most of my research papers. Tutorials I create mostly for myself on about every new language or computer system I teach myself. These tutorials, actually, contribute to the most of the 3,000,000 views I logged. Google Analytics is a nice tool to figure out how a set of Web pages is accessed. 85% of accesses to my pages are from Web searches, 10% from referrals from other pages (possibly mine). The most popular pages are for my Arduino-XBee tutorial, indicating a strong interest in micro-controllers out there, and for my cloud-computing pages on the use of Hadoop. More details on the statistics can be found here.
Note that not all of my pages are public, as I protect some of them (for example homework solutions) and restrict them to either myself only, or to computers with a given IP address (only Smith college campus, for example).
In short, wikis are good!
