http://toolserver.org/~emw/wikistats/ is an augmented traffic statistics tool that shows daily Wikipedia page traffic over arbitrary time periods. It also allows users to see traffic for multiple articles in a given time period, or different language versions of the same article, and gives summary statistics for each data set and some very basic automated inferencing on the cause of traffic spikes (e.g. Michael Jackson's). The tool gets its data from stats.grok.se.
Yes, this most certainly has a lot of potential for that aspect. This tool could serve as a way to validate your assumptions where for pages that are ranking well on Google.
Interesting, though I can't figure out for the life of me what Special:Export/Robert L. Bradley, Jr and Special:Export/William Kurtz Wimsatt, Jr are doing there.
I agree that seeing page view counts on a weekly or monthly basis would be interesting. I'll add a feature to http://toolserver.org/~emw/wikistats/ so that users can "bin" view counts for pages into weekly or monthly (or arbitrary-time length) units. If you have other feature requests, please keep them coming.
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