[WikiEN-l] Wikipedia up and down

[David Gerard]

Charles Matthews wrote:

>Agree.  OTOH WP is a reference site.  There will be many people who come to
>WP with the aim of looking up some one thing.  This gives a natural pattern
>of short visits, not surfing around.  The overall reach shows the users who
>arrive knowing they want to look something up, plus the input from search
>engines.  We shouldn't get too hung up about the number of page views.  If
>people find what they want on the first page they view, so much the better.


For me, page views are working about 2/3 of the time and edits are
working not very often. So I wouldn't be so blase about the numbers
... Do we have any numbers about requests made vs requests served? I
assume the devs are *painfully* aware.


- d.