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]].
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.
100? Thousands for articles which meet good article criteria, are broad or common in use and receive a lot of hits from computer-literate users.
On 9/9/06, 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.
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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.
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.
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]].
You should know, you spammed your blog on a number of pages.
If your customers are really interested in this data, perhaps you could fund wikimedia to perform a proper study.
On 9/8/06, Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell@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]].
You should know, you spammed your blog on a number of pages.
If your customers are really interested in this data, perhaps you could fund wikimedia to perform a proper study.
Could be tricky. The other comment from SEO forums is that their links keep getting removed.