The slow but steady decrease in readerships is known and has been identified for a long. An important niche of readership are quick answers for trivia (such as "what's the capital of X country") and there are tools (some of those, powered by Wikidata) working better than a classical google search and clicking on the Wikipedia article.

I mean, we talked a lot about this during Strategy. We just must find a solution.

F.

Missatge de RonnieV <wikipedia@ronaldvelgersdijk.nl> del dia ds., 8 de gen. 2022 a les 10:03:

Could there something be wrong with the presentation?

The total number of edits at the English Wikipedia should have dropped 21,23% https://stats.wikimedia.org/#/en.wikipedia.org
The numbers at https://stats.wikimedia.org/#/en.wikipedia.org/contributing/edits/normal|table|2-year|~total|monthly do show 63.8M edits in 2021 and only 61.5M in 2020.

Do I misinterpret the graph?

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Met vriendelijke groet,

RonnieV

Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga schreef op 2022-01-07 18:51:

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>):

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/#/en.wikipedia.org

https://stats.wikimedia.org/#/nl.wikipedia.org

https://stats.wikimedia.org/#/pl.wikipedia.org
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