7 Million Views

--D. Thiebaut (talk) 11:46, 23 March 2017 (EDT)

7 Million Views
March 23, 2017

I reached 7 million views on my wiki pages this week. It was 4 million 20 months ago, and 3 million 31 months ago. 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 still contribute to most of the views I logged.

Last year, the most popular pages (after the main entry page) were my Hadoop Tutorial 1 followed closely by my Arduino-XBee tutorial, itself followed by the main tutorial page. Interestingly, in 4th position is a page I created on the design of a four-bit adder in Verilog, which displaced my tutorial on Matplot. So, as it was 20 months ago, microcontrollers, cloud, hardware acceleration and data-vis seem to be the most popular of my interests...

More details on the statistics can be found here, and the list of most viewed pages 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).