[Foundation-l] Outdated manual

Ray Saintonge saintonge at telus.net
Sat Apr 9 09:37:27 UTC 2011


On 04/09/11 1:54 AM, Svip wrote:
> On 9 April 2011 10:45, Federico Leva (Nemo)<nemowiki at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> Milos Rancic, 09/04/2011 10:14
>>> [1] http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/wikipedia.org
>> We've been using comScore data for years, now:
>> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Stu/comScore_data_on_Wikimedia
>> Alexa is not a reliable source.
> While Alexa may not be a reliable source, comScore does not provide
> Wikipedia's position among Internet websites.  So using the wording
> '5th place' is either relying on unreliable sources or made up.
>
The advantage of a term like "top ten" is that it allows for short term 
variation between information sources and over time.

Ray



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