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Betreff: [Wiki-research-l] traffic suddenly down on Wikipedia? Gesendet: Tue, 20. Jun 2006 Von: "Andrea Forte" andrea.forte@gmail.com

Does anyone know of an explanation for the sudden drop in traffic on Wikipedia these past couple weeks? I just happened to notice because I'm writing a paper and needed the lastest alexa ranking.

See: http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?&range=&size=large... _sites=&y=r&url=www.wikipedia.com

Alexa's data is made from undisclosed sources and they seem to update their algorithm and weighting factors seamingless in their graphs.

Leon Weber has released the traffic stats on the Wikimedia Toolserver:

http://tools.wikimedia.de/~leon/stats/trafstats/trafficstats-yearly.png http://tools.wikimedia.de/~leon/stats/reqstats/reqstats-yearly.png

Mathias

By the way: The alexa figure you were referring to has nothing to do with "traffic" per se.