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Here are some statistics for special pages and actions taken from
today's real user data. This should help with ergonomic design for the
user interface.

I will be able to re-run these tests later in the week, when we have
more data.

Observations:
* pages are opened for edit roughly 5 times as often as their edits are
submitted
* some of the CamelCase special pages listed do not actually exist on
the new server: they are presumably links referenced on the old server
main page being given to the new server.

Here are some ordinary pages for comparison:

Main Page (2320 views)
Biographical Listing/A (152 views)
Current events (105 views)

In descending order of frequency, the special pages and actions are:

1241 action=edit
760 Special:Recentchanges
293 Special:Randompage
263 action=history
240 action=submit
141 Special:Preferences
110 Special:Userlogin
83 Special:Whatlinkshere
73 Special:Specialpages
69 Special:Statistics
60 Special:Imagelist
54 Special:Watchlist
48 Special:Contributions
30 Special:Wantedpages
28 action=print
27 Special:Recentchangeslinked
27 Special:Allpages
26 Special:Upload
26 Special:Lonelypages
19 Special:Popularpages
15 action=watch
12 Special:Ipblocklist
11 Special:Listusers
10 Special:Unusedimages
8 Special:Newpages
7 action=view
7 action=delete
7 Special:Userlogout
7 Special:Longpages
4 Special:Shortpages
3 Special:RecentChanges
3 Special:AllPages
2 action=unwatch
2 Special:Movepage
1 Special:UserLogin
1 Special:Recentchanges/
1 Special:RandomPage/
1 Special:RandomPage
1 Special:NewPages/
1 Special:AllPages/