Yes, completely agreed with all the previous comments. (And, for those interested in the topic of high-profile events leading to massive page view spikes pre-2010, there's some coverage
here,
here,
here, and
here.) --
MZMcBride (
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06:19, 6 February 2013 (UTC)reply
I expect the most viewed article ever will come from a celebrity who dies while playing the Super Bowl half time show ... but seriously, very interesting article. Great work.
MasterOfHisOwnDomain (
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11:55, 6 February 2013 (UTC)reply
A significant reason we write the encyclopedia is for people to read it.
Wikipedia:Did you know/Statistics provides some sense of what readers look for on the Main Page. However, the analysis provide above by West.andrew.g and Milowent is exactly what we need to get a better sense of what our readers desire on a larger scale as well as a sense of how the encyclopedia articles are being used. Great job! -
Uzma Gamal (
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13:02, 6 February 2013 (UTC)reply
Not only is this a great article, it supplies important information -- not just for Wikipedia, but for the marketing world in general. Since most people don't know about the Signpost, I highly recommend posting about this article on marketing and social media sites - tweet it up. --
kosboot (
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14:26, 6 February 2013 (UTC)reply
Like others above, I welcome the coverage of viewing statistics, which is an area greatly neglected in most wiki-discourse. But I am always less interested in the very top of the charts than the middle and bottom, and more on this in the future would be really great. A few weeks ago I posed a question on the technical pumps, asking how we can generalize about the number or proportion of crawler bot hits in the article stats which, unlike everything else on the page, received no response at all. Yet this is a key question for much current editing, which overwhelmingly concentrates on long tail article with low viewing figures. Also, what are we able to say about how long average "readers" spend on an article, and how much they actually read? I haven't a clue, beyond the overall average figure of a few seconds (which I can't seem to find now).
Johnbod (
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16:24, 6 February 2013 (UTC)reply
Very good work! A pity that this came out now and that it started in 2010; if it had started in 2009, it would have been able to account for
stories about the
death of Michael Jackson, and if it had only come a few days later, it would have been able to include the massive spike for hits on
Richard III of England, which typically got a few thousand hits daily until
Monday, when it got about 800,000, or almost 25× the number of hits for
that day's featured article. I'll look forward to future studies!
Nyttend (
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02:42, 7 February 2013 (UTC)reply
Because I read the story too fast, your comment was my first clue to this page, and I'd never seen WP:5000 before, either. Quite intriguing!
Nyttend (
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04:33, 7 February 2013 (UTC)reply
Really great article about the power of WP. The effect that WP has had on our world is huge, but unfortunately largely unmeasurable on the individuals' side of things. I thought that the readers here, may likewise enjoy a piece of research that I recently read (that cites WP as an example), that I feel is very fascinating in how it describes the power behind phenomena like WP. It's called "The Theory of Crowd Capital" and you can download it here if you're interested:
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2193115 Enjoy! — Preceding
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24.85.85.220 (
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01:24, 7 February 2013 (UTC)reply
Would be great if research can lead to suggestions for software features. A sparkline on the margin perhaps and perhaps indicators of articles in one's watchlist that are showing a viewership peaking.
Shyamal (
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05:44, 11 February 2013 (UTC)reply
Thanks for starting that AfD on Gasaneri, I presume due to the cool "Ә"s in your name you know your stuff. There are probably more stubs like that for Azerbaijani locations - is there official census information for each rayon that could help us improve our coverage? Regards.--Milowent • hasspoken13:03, 4 October 2014 (UTC)reply
Hello my friend. Yes there are a lot of villages which abolished a lot of years ago, but today all of them in English and Bahasa wikipedias. I will start to work on them. You also can help me to delete them because I am not an adminstirator and I do not have permission to delete them. If you are adminstirator or you have a friend who is adminstirator help delete them. Thanks you for attention.--
Nəcməddin Kəbirli (
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13:19, 4 October 2014 (UTC)reply