On 4/6/06, Anthere Anthere9@yahoo.com wrote:
Alexa...
http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?q=&url=www.wikipedia.o...
And as I already said, results are questionable :-)
If that is the case, basing a "study" on those figures is probably indeed questionnable.
Alexa only provides their toolbar, (with which they collect data) [1] in English. And only for Internet Explorer.
Which probably gives a good overview of the English part of Wikipedia/Wikimedia projects, but definitely gives only a partial, or even totally biased view of other languages and websites. And leaves out a pretty good section of the population using other browsers than Internet Explorer.
This said, I find the idea behind the "study" definitely interesting, and it *does* call for *real* statistics... ;-)
Delphine
[1]About the Alexa Toolbar Alexa could not exist without the participation of the Alexa Toolbar community. Each member of the community, in addition to getting a useful tool, is giving back. Simply by using the toolbar each member contributes valuable information about the web, how it is used, what is important and what is not. This information is returned to the community as Related Links, Traffic Rankings and more. from http://pages.alexa.com/company/index.html -- ~notafish