2009/3/2 David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com>om>:
I just went to get some actual data. Here's the
stats.grok.se hit
count for [[:en:Wikipedia:Contact us]] and its subpages:
232227 Wikipedia:Contact us
- ranked #366 page on Wikipedia for Feb 2009
2230 Wikipedia:Contact us/account questions
7773 Wikipedia:Contact us/Article problem
2016 Wikipedia:Contact us/Article problem/Copyright
472 Wikipedia:Contact us/Article problem/Delete or undelete
1793 Wikipedia:Contact us/Article problem/Factual error
620 Wikipedia:Contact us/Article problem/Factual error (from enterprise)
1196 Wikipedia:Contact us/Article problem/Factual error (from subject)
474 Wikipedia:Contact_us/Article_problem/Google_Earth
428 Wikipedia:Contact us/Article problem/No article
711 Wikipedia:Contact us/Article problem/Poorly written
1967 Wikipedia:Contact us/Article problem/Vandalism
2021 Wikipedia:Contact us/blocked
2718 Wikipedia:Contact us/Contact a user
2160 Wikipedia:Contact us/Links
1893 Wikipedia:Contact us/login problems
3106 Wikipedia:Contact us/other
6704 Wikipedia:Contact us/Photo submission
3570 Wikipedia:Contact us/Top questions
2228 Wikipedia:Contact us/Warning messages
I said I'd check back in a week, didn't I ... er. Well, the new links
have been on [[Help:Contents]] for most of March!
The numbers from stats.grok.se show March hits so far as:
* Wikipedia:Contact us/Article problem - 11595 (up from 7773 in
Feb and 8259 in Jan)
* Wikipedia:Contact us - 253665 (up from 232227 in Feb and down
from 279774 in Jan)
The increased hits on "article problem" may be worth the effort. The
increased hits on "Contact us" not so much.
The problem, of course, is that every new link or word of text on that
page lowers its utility. That "help!" page should be as sparse as
possible for user interface reasons.
What do you all think?
- d.