Does anyone know of any research which demonstrates a correlation between
the quality of an article in Wikipedia and the number of pageviews it
receives?
I'm trying to argue, as part of my work with museums, that if they want to
get people to come to their own website from wikipedia, then instead of
focusing on adding top-level links to the "external links" section, they
should instead focus on adding deep-linked footnotes and encouraging the
improvement of the quality of the article in general. This is on the basis
that "increased quality=increased pageviews=increased clickthroughs". A
win-win situation.
I have some very nice statistics of pageviews (from stats.grok.se) that
match the clickthrough stats from a museum (from their analytics) that
clearly demonstrate a correlation between increased pageviews and increased
clickthroughs. However, I'm still looking for some scientific data to prove
the link between improved article quality and an increase in the number of
views of that article.
Can anyone help?
-Liam
wittylama.com/blog
Peace, love & metadata