On 11/28/06, Joseph Reagle reagle@mit.edu wrote:
A handful of students in a class I teach hadn't realized that the Wikipedia was 1) user written, 2) editable, or 3) discussable. They never even tried the tabs at the top, so a student put the question to me in class today: how many of those that access a page access its discussion page? On #wikipedia folks noted that such a feature is possible with Wikimedia but disabled and any such statistics are hard to get since there's so much and can hurt performance if enabled.
http://hemlock.knams.wikimedia.org/~leon/stats/wikicharts/index.php?lang=en&...
may give a very very weak indication that the talk pages are almost never accessed - compared to wikipedia articles itself.