[Intlwiki-l] Re: [Wikipedia-l] en.wikipedia.org vs www.wikipedia.org and the Wikipedia family

[Magnus Manske]

The Cunctator wrote:

>On Fri, 2002-10-11 at 12:25, Anthere wrote:
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>>One more click *only once* does not look like *huge* to me. Only once.
>>And one more login *only once* even less.
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>If you take a look at  http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special%3APopularpages
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>you see the problem of the extra click. The front page has more than 20
>times as many view as the next most popular pages. Clickthroughs
>generally follow [[Zipf's law]] (it's even used as an example!).
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Maybe that could be compensated by placing a big (=central, visible) 
search function on top of the"www" main page, with a dropdown box for 
the different languages, with the browser-preferred language 
pre-selected. I guess that's what the random bypasser (the one-click 
guy;) wants from an encyclopedia: search for some topic. People who are 
interested in the project itself won't mind an additional click, IMHO.

Magnus