Amir E. Aharoni, 17/09/2014 10:05:
WAT.
Are these millions and millions of real people clicking Random article all the time? Not search engines or bots or something?
I have no reason to believe it's an especially inflated number: Special:Random is the most common tool for curious users in search of something to read or edit, together with watchlist (which anons don't have) and recent changes. Disbelievers can do some appreciated additional research though. :-)
Do taps on Random article in the apps count as hits to Special:Random?
Not for stats.grok.se, for sure. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Killiondude/stats#What_about_mobile.3F
Nemo
Data: http://mobile-reportcard.wmflabs.org/graphs/ui-daily
After home, the random menu item is the most clicked button. I remember analysing the data once and seeing that one user hit random 100 times in a day.
I agree however that it is technical. It would be good to rebrand this to make it more friendly.
Personally I'd love to see us combine nearby, random into some kind of explore feature. We can do so much better than a button that just takes you to a random page.
On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 1:21 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemowiki@gmail.com wrote:
Amir E. Aharoni, 17/09/2014 10:05:
WAT.
Are these millions and millions of real people clicking Random article all the time? Not search engines or bots or something?
I have no reason to believe it's an especially inflated number: Special:Random is the most common tool for curious users in search of something to read or edit, together with watchlist (which anons don't have) and recent changes. Disbelievers can do some appreciated additional research though. :-)
Do taps on Random article in the apps count as hits to Special:Random?
Not for stats.grok.se, for sure. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Killiondude/stats#What_about_mobile.3F
Nemo
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Jon Robson, 18/09/2014 01:50:
Personally I'd love to see us combine nearby, random into some kind of explore feature.
Looks to me a totally separate use case.
We can do so much better than a button that just takes you to a random page.
RESOLVED FIXED Bug 65366 - Better Special:Random https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=65366 :)
Nemo
On Sep 17, 2014 4:50 PM, "Jon Robson" jdlrobson@gmail.com wrote:
After home, the random menu item is the most clicked button. I remember analysing the data once and seeing that one user hit random 100 times in a day.
That was me, sorry! :)