2008/11/10 Andrew Gray <shimgray(a)gmail.com>om>:
2008/11/10 Carcharoth
<carcharothwp(a)googlemail.com>om>:
I particularly liked the point where it compared
the number of hits on news
sites to the number of hits on Wikipedia.
I ran some more detailed statistics on this at the weekend,
incidentally - I'll try and post them tonight. Long post, though...
Obama's article was getting about 50% more hits than McCain's, with
Palin somewhere in the middle of the two (!). Interestingly, there was
a *proportionally* higher hitrate on Obama's policies article than
there was on McCains (though both were getting pleasingly high rates
for daughter articles)
Okay, here's some notes - I posted them to the wiki rather than here
in order not to dump a huge load of text on the list. Also, there's a
graph!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Shimgray/Election_statistics
Comments to the usual address - if I get the chance over the next week
I'll expand it and try to figure out another way of looking at the
data. The stuff with daughter articles is quite promising, and it'd be
interesting to compare this to some "normal" biographies with that
many daughter pages...
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- Andrew Gray
andrew.gray(a)dunelm.org.uk