Following the recent transition from Mediawiki 0.15.1 to 1.26.0, the "page views" is not available. While not perfect, this was providing some insight on which page was visited the most.

To address this and allow Slicer core developer to gather insights on which page is useful to our user, vs which page is NOT.

Would be great to look into these extensions:

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Google_Analytics_Integration

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Open_Web_Analytics

My conversion with Mike from Dec 10 2015 summarizes the situation:

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From Jc to Mike, Steve, BWH HelpDesk
Date: Dec 10, 2015

The page view count that was usually displayed at the bottom of each page is now missing.

Seems the feature has been disabled in version >= 1.25.0.
See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgDisableCounters

Would it be possible to provide me with the information stored in the existing database or the backup done before the last upgrade ?

That information is very valuable to know how popular any pages is.

Setting up an alternative is also important.

The HitCounter will do the job: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:HitCounters

It also mean you will have to manually recreate the HitCounter table and insert the data stored in the backup.

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From Mike to Jc, Steve, SPLHelp@partners.org
Date: Dec 10, 2015

I can look into it. However, I tend to agree with the discussion here:

https://m.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Removing_hit_counters_from_MediaWiki_core

The old metric is too simplistic to be of any value since it provides no frequency information nor does it distinguish between users and bots.

If you want statistics, we can turn on web log analysis.