On 10 Sep 2006, at 14:14, Andrew Gray wrote:
On 08/09/06, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
On 9/8/06, Gregory Kohs thekohser@gmail.com wrote:
I am curious if there is any factual data about how many clicks per day, on average, that a run-of-the-mill outbound link receives in the "External links" section of a typical Wikipedia article? My guess is that it's somewhere around 3 or 4, but that's just me looking at it as a [[Fermi problem]].
Depends on the article they are on but I've seen over 100 claimed on SEO forums.
[checks local logs]
I have a copy of my thesis linked from two pages (it's stunningly boring, but it's a source for a lot of one and a footnoted cite in another), and a third locally-hosted page is linked as a source in a particuarly obscure article.
Between them, they're getting anywhere from one visit per day to two a week, on average. I can't comment on "external links" sites generally.
I'm working on a free Java video player for Wikipedia. As part of my research, I (controversially - see my recent RfA for details) added some article-relevant externally linked Java videos. These link to specific videos rather to a normal website, so the stats may be atypical of traditional external links.
Overall, these videos had thousands of views. I can make the statistics available, either generally or to trusted Wikipedians alone, if people are interested.
Some time ago, I uploaded some of the most popular in OGG format to Wikimedia Commons with a free licence, so you can see the sort of content there:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Medical.ogg - for the Childbirth article http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Bungy.ogg - for the Bungy jumping and Tsitsikamma articles http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:9x9_Go.ogg - for the Go article [I have an updated version of this as suggested by one of the players]
I have many more, but have been asked to stop uploading new videos for the time being.