Perhaps our readers aren't getting their topics of interest on Wikipedia, partly because Wikipedia is becoming nothing more than a biographical encyclopedia.
Regards,
Isaac.
On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 5:54 PM, James Heilman jmh649@gmail.com wrote:
Our data is only comparable between May 2015 and Dec 2017 so:
Nov/Dec/Jan 15/16 total 15.7, 14.6, 16.2
Nov/Dec/Jan 16/17 total 16.4, 15.5, 17.0
Nov/Dec/Jan 17/18 total 15.3, 14.3, 16.4 (last number an estimate)
So went up from 15/16 to 16/17 and now come down in 17/18 to about were it was in 15/16. We are definitely not seeing growth in pageviews though which is concerning.
James
On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 5:10 AM, Wojciech Pędzich wpedzich@gmail.com wrote:
In order to have at least a partial answer we would need to know how the pageviews relate to actual database traffic I assume? That would explain Google and I do not know whether there are any other services worldwide that use the datastram without actually displaying pages.
Wojciech
2018-01-23 11:55 GMT+01:00 Anders Wennersten mail@anderswennersten.se:
We are seeing a steady decrease of page views to our projects
(Wikipedia).
Nov-Dec-Jan it is decreasing in a rate of 5-10% (year-year), and for
big
languages like Japanese, Spanish close to 10%, or some months even
more
[1]
Is there any insights of why this is so? Could it be that Google take
over
accesses with their ever better way of showing results direct (but
then
also with showing extracts of Wikipedia articles) . Or that our
interface
on mobiles is inferior so we miss accesses from mobiles (now being 54%
of
total). Or horror of horror that users look for facts on all new sites
with
fake news instead of Wikipedia?
Anders
[1] https://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesPageViewsMonthlyCombined.htm
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