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Most likely, it is the absolute number of random searches in billions
On Mar 19, 2016 6:01 PM, "Andrew Gray" <andrew.gray@dunelm.org.uk> wrote:
> Hi Alex,
>
> Stupid question - is that "3.36% of all random-article searches were on
> Latvian WP", or "3.36% of all searches (pageviews?) on the Latvian WP were
> through random-article"?
>
> Andrew.
>
> On 19 March 2016 at 21:34, Alex Druk <alex.druk@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Mark J. Nelson writes:
>> >Specifically, a small slice of content, mainly English Wikipedia
>> >articles on pop culture, recent news events, and U.S. politics,
>> >contribute a disproportionate share of views. (A weekly top-25 list for
>> >enwiki is at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Top_25_Report ). So
>> >if you're measuring aggregate numbers, you're measuring mainly that
>> >specific type of content. If the goal is really simply to reach as many
>> >people as possible, have high page views and unique visitor counts,
>> >etc., then this subset of articles is really the only important part of
>> >Wikimedia's mission--- articles on, say, mathematics, don't contribute
>> >anything to moving the needle if that's the metric.
>>
>> One should also consider the fact that significant number of users use
>> Wikipedia as entertainment. As an example of such use is random searches. On
>> all Wikipedia sites number of random searches in 2014 exceeded 1 billion.
>> Here is a simple graph illustrated this:
>> [image: Inline image 1]
>>
>> ~~Alex
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Mar 19, 2016 at 1:00 PM, <
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>>> phoebe ayers <phoebe.wiki@gmail.com> writes:
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>>> > I wonder if there's a qualitative project somewhere in here about
>>> > *types* of use -- e.g. if I'm using WP on my phone & my work pc is
>>> > that really equivalent use? Perhaps I am using them for different
>>> > kinds of information seeking, e.g. looking up terms related to work vs
>>> > looking up info on movie stars -- does this different kind of use
>>> > matter for how we construct and present information, or count "use"?
>>>
>>> Beyond the issue of devices, I think this is important in part because
>>> the raw traffic counts (and reach numbers and similar) paint a very
>>> specific story of what Wikimedia is doing and is successful at. (And
>>> what you measure influences what you tend to optimize for.)
>>>
>>> Specifically, a small slice of content, mainly English Wikipedia
>>> articles on pop culture, recent news events, and U.S. politics,
>>> contribute a disproportionate share of views. (A weekly top-25 list for
>>> enwiki is at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Top_25_Report ). So
>>> if you're measuring aggregate numbers, you're measuring mainly that
>>> specific type of content. If the goal is really simply to reach as many
>>> people as possible, have high page views and unique visitor counts,
>>> etc., then this subset of articles is really the only important part of
>>> Wikimedia's mission--- articles on, say, mathematics, don't contribute
>>> anything to moving the needle if that's the metric.
>>>
>>> -Mark
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>> --
>> Thank you.
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>> Alex Druk
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