On 30/08/06, Steve Summit scs@eskimo.com wrote:
It really is a case of "be careful what you wish for", isn't it? We were quite pleased over at en.wiktionary when Leon turned stats on there for us a couple of days previously, but the joy is now mixed with rue as we learn that among our most popular entries, so far, are consistently MILF, penis, fuck, masturbate, and breasts.
What it tells us is that it is absolutely vital that said articles be of the highest possible quality, and in fact should be brought to Featured Article status as absolutely soon as possible. (Seriously.)
(It's true, though; clearly we'll all want to wait weeks or months before we can imagine that the stats in general aren't swamped by fixations du jour.)
Fixations du jour are fine, at least spread over a month. If that many people are interested in a given article over a whole month, that's a significant topic and we have no real excuse for not having it be featured or near-featured quality. We're no. 17 on Alexa 3-month average, no. 15 today - that many readers are *significant*.
- d.
At 15:03 +0100 30/8/06, David Gerard wrote:
On 30/08/06, Steve Summit scs@eskimo.com wrote:
It really is a case of "be careful what you wish for", isn't it? We were quite pleased over at en.wiktionary when Leon turned stats on there for us a couple of days previously, but the joy is now mixed with rue as we learn that among our most popular entries, so far, are consistently MILF, penis, fuck, masturbate, and breasts.
What it tells us is that it is absolutely vital that said articles be of the highest possible quality, and in fact should be brought to Featured Article status as absolutely soon as possible. (Seriously.)
The word "breast" is a classic example of why simplistic "stop words" approaches will fail. Does anybody want to delete this article?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breast_cancer
Gordo