Just a couple of minutes ago I wanted to point out while chatting that two (shitty) singers work together because they work for the same major. A bunch of years ago I had to open some Google result to find such info, now I don't.
Loss of readers is not bad in itself, it can be if there's a significant number of potential new editors among the readers we lose in this way (also, readers could affect fundraising, but I think we already make enough of it). Anecdotically I think new editors rather come from those who look for info which cannot be found in knowledge graph, but surely this requires a proper investigation.
Vito
Il giorno sab 8 gen 2022 alle ore 12:39 Francesc Fort < taronjasatsuma2@gmail.com> ha scritto:
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 https://stats.wikimedia.org/#/en.wikipedia.org] The numbers at https://stats.wikimedia.org/#/en.wikipedia.org/contributing/edits/normal%7Ct... do show 63.8M edits in 2021 and only 61.5M in 2020.
Do I misinterpret the graph?
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
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