[Wikimedia-l] Increase in page views for the last 3 months

[Anders Wennersten]

I have assumed it is an effect  of Google starting to show an extract 
from Wikipedia on the page where they show hit results.

I raised the issue Sept 29 in a thread here called New Google interface 
to Wikipedia

Anders


Harsh Kothari skrev 2013-11-23 08:00:
> Similar thing to Gujarati Wikipedia
> http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/SummaryGU.htm
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> Peak at August 2013
> Down at April 2013
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> It may be possible that people who are using local language google search
> increased.
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> On Sat, Nov 23, 2013 at 12:25 PM, Quim Gil <qgil at wikimedia.org> wrote:
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>> On 11/22/2013 01:41 PM, Strainu wrote:
>>> Has anything changed in the reporting or the visit patterns for these
>>> Wikipedias? It looks pretty weird to have a 100% increase for Romanian
>>> in just 3 months [1].
>>> [1] http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/SummaryRO.htm
>> Pretty similar to Spanish and Catalan:
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>> http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/SummaryES.htm
>> http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/SummaryCA.htm
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>> Some Catalan editors {{vague}} were wondering how much the nice pannel
>> featuring Wikipedia text and image in Google searches had to do with
>> this. But yes, it's almost too nice to be true.
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>> It would be interesting to see whether the increase in page views pulls
>> a vawe of increased edits and editors numbers.
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>> --
>> Quim Gil
>> Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation
>> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil
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