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I'm at Rutgers too (in Camden). Here it's the Gleaner.

What an excellent list.

I'm much more interested in The Gaucho myself. :-)

No, no, you do make a good point about competition. It's best to avoid fostering that, and I see how the stats would do so.

I'm so surprised! It must be about eight months old and I've never seen it either. What do these other people know that I don't???

Me, too!

The Grackle? Oh, but reesetee, I do want to know.

We have a local weekly paper in Albuquerque called the Alibi. It's a good "alternative" publication. Additionally, I agree that competition would be not-so-good for Wordie lists (apart from WordPlay games) and I regret suggesting it. There's already a degree of that with the "Most Citations" and "Wordiest Wordies" rankings, but there's never been a cutthroat edge to those, and no fights to be #1.

Mine's called The Gaucho.

My college newspaper was called The Grackle. You don't want to know why.

Oh, I don't know, John. Traffic stats sound great at first, but if it makes Wordie competitive, I'd sooner not see them at all.

Gondolier, that's fantastic. My college newspaper was (and still is) called the Orient. "The Oldest Continuously Published College Weekly in the U.S." A pretty caveated claim :-)

Hm... maybe I should have kept my yap shut :-)

I use Google Analytics for traffic stats, which is an amazing service, but it's external to the site. As far as I know there's no easy way for me to programatically check Analytics and incorporate those stats into the site. And because Analytics is so good, I don't even pay attention to the actual log files on the server -- in fact, being a bad sysadmin, every once in a while I just go in and delete them. So, no public stats for the foreseeable future.

Practical considerations aside, I also worry that we'd get too competitive, or that people would feel badly if they weren't getting as much traffic as they'd like. While it might help overall traffic if everyone was out pimping their words, it might hurt esprit de corp and be a bad thing in the long run. Thoughts?

Seconded, I would love to see traffic stats. Mostly because I am an egomaniac. :D

the rutgers university newspaper is the daily targum.

Additionally, the newspaper in my hometown of Venice, Florida, is the Venice Gondolier. :-)

Agreed! It's my first time seeing this. John, are you saying you have traffic stats for Wordie lists? Might be interesting to see a ranking or something...

What a fantastic list. And it's consistently one of the most-trafficked on Wordie.