Indeed. Our (Wikipedias) most visited articles is "littered" with fiction
related topics. See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Popular_pages
for a list of "most visited" articles. There are links to other tools which
provide more detailed statistics.
For your convenience:
http://wikistics.falsikon.de/2008/wikipedia/en/
Thats the yearly visits. For the sake of our sanity we will ignore
statistics on daily or even monthly visits.
Wikipedias top 25 most visited article with real content (excluding special
pages and the main page as well ass any non-main namespace page ) in 2008
is:
1. Wiki - Software
2. YouTube - Website
3. Barack Obama - Politics
4. Sarah Palin - Politics
5. Facebook - Website
6. The Dark Knight (film) - Pop Culture
7. Wikipedia - Website (US!)
8. Sex - Science (o_O)
9. Deaths in 2008 - General content
10. United States - Science (Geography, socialy and etc)
11. MySpace - Website
12. John McCain - Politics
13. Beatles - Pop Culture - Music
14. 2008 Summer Olympics - Olympics
15. Large Hadron Collider - Science
16. Hotmail - Website
17. Naruto - Pop Cultue - Anime
18. Heroes (TV series) - Pop Culture - Sci fi
19. Google - Website
20. Joe Biden - Politics
21. Lil Wayne - Pop Culture - Music
22. Michael Phelps - Olympics
23. Batman - Pop Culture - Sci fi (or whatever)
24. United States presidential election, 2008 - Politics
25. Miley Cyrus - Pop Culture - Music
Now lets analyze all this.
First of all please recall that 2008 had two significant events.
- The Election in the United States
- The Summer Olympics in China
Politics: 5
Olympics: 2
Websites: 6
Pop Culture: 7
Other: 5
If we count Other+Olympics+Websites+Politics as real world... Thats 18 real
world and 7 pop culture.
I do not see the threat of pop culture there...
- White Cat
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 1:31 PM, Carcharoth <carcharothwp(a)googlemail.com>wrote;wrote:
Good point. I haven't seen this argument raised prominently before,
that fiction articles *don't* swamp our real-world coverage. It would
be worth trying to get more rigorous results from a wider survey like
this, and finding someone willing to help with some moderate form of
statistical analysis. The number of page views is also something that
should have more prominence in the debate, in my opinion.
Carcharoth
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