With respect to some anecdotal evidence, I have for many years asked the medical students who work with me on their clinical rotations how they study. I get a few passes through my department a month.

 Most reported using Wikipedia 5 to 10 years back. Now sources like Osmosis, which are basically short video overviews with questions banks attached, are more commonly mentioned. Video is becoming a more common way for younger folks to learn.

James

On Fri, Jan 7, 2022 at 3:55 PM Mohamed ElGohary <ircpresident@gmail.com> wrote:
"Is the traffic measured where content is read" would be a better way of putting it. 

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Gohary (ircpresident)

On Sat, Jan 8, 2022 at 12:52 AM Juergen Fenn <jfenn@gmx.net> wrote:
Anders raised the question how this relates to "smarter" machine-created
traffic. Do we know more about this?

Best Regards,
Jürgen.

Am 07.01.22 um 21:45 Uhr schrieb James Heilman:
> Have been tracking medical pageviews for EN WP for more than 10 years.
> It appears our readership peaked around 2014, there was a bump during
> the pandemic, and now the fall in pageviews is continuing again... This
> despite much of our pageviews for medicine continuing to be related to
> the pandemic.
>
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Change_in_medical_pageviews_from_2009_until_2014.png
> <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Change_in_medical_pageviews_from_2009_until_2014.png>
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Medicine/Popular_pages
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Medicine/Popular_pages>
>
> James
>
> On Fri, Jan 7, 2022 at 11:09 AM Toni Ristovski <toni91ehrlich@gmail.com
> <mailto:toni91ehrlich@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Additionally, pandemic 2020 with a lot of lockdowns makes many
>     people commit to different activities, among them starting editing
>     on Wikipedia or reading more. Basically, in my opinion it is better
>     to compare with 2019 numbers. Also, it will be useful to have some
>     kind of survey about this which can give us a better overview of
>     these data.
>
>     As I`m editor and admin on Macedonian Wikipedia, I was quite
>     surprised that our Wikipedia actually continues to grow in terms of
>     reading and having a stable editing base.
>
>     All the best,
>     Toni
>
>     On Fri, Jan 7, 2022 at 6:52 PM Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga
>     <galder158@hotmail.com <mailto:galder158@hotmail.com>> wrote:
>
>         There's another option: the 2020 pandemic lockdowns made a huge
>         peak on views, so year on year, 2021 has worse results.
>
>         2022(e)ko urt. 7(a) 18:41 erabiltzaileak hau idatzi du (Anders
>         Wennersten <mail@anderswennersten.se
>         <mailto:mail@anderswennersten.se>>):
>
>             When I look at statistics for mature wikipedias: en, de pl,
>             nl they all
>             show a decrease of views of 13-15% in last 12 months from a
>             year ago,
>             and number of active editors down 10- 20 % (with exception
>             of en).
>
>             Has this been analysed somewhere, are we losing our readers and
>             contributors or is it mostly Google that access our info
>             "smarter" not
>             creating "views"
>
>             Anders
>
>             https://stats.wikimedia.org/#/de.wikipedia.org
>             <https://stats.wikimedia.org/#/de.wikipedia.org>
>
>             https://stats.wikimedia.org/#/en.wikipedia.org
>             <https://stats.wikimedia.org/#/en.wikipedia.org>
>
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>
>             https://stats.wikimedia.org/#/pl.wikipedia.org
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