Hi, I wonder if wikipedia only relies on this sort of external statistics (like Alexa) to gather information about visits to the sites. Aren't there statistcs collected on wikipedia servers itself? This would be more useful and reliable. BTW, if we want to know the popularity of an specific article (not a specific wikipedia), is there a tool for that?
Regards, Miguel.
On 3/29/06, Pawe³ Dembowski fallout@lexx.eu.org wrote:
Anthere wrote:
Answer : these values are collected strictly thanks to the use of the Alexa bar...; which is apparently very little used at least in France. Hence possibly messing up the statistics. It might well be the same for other languages, in particular those for which the Alexa bar... is simply not working/translated. So... be careful with the use of the Alexa data. They are a very interesting feedback... but also to take with a pinch of salt.
It's the same in Poland - I think very few Poles use Alexa bar.
-- Ausir Wikipedia, wolna encyklopedia http://pl.wikipedia.org
Wikipedia-l mailing list Wikipedia-l@Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-l