JeLuF wrote:
This all seems very unlikely to me. I think Mav and perhaps some other "power user" are using the alexa toolbar and their many hits adulterate the statistics.
Is that an allegation that I'm rigging the system?
Instead of throwing around baseless accusations why don't you look up the criteria for hit counting; one IP is counted only once a day per page (see http://pages.alexa.com/exec/faqsidos/help/index.html?index=1 ). Oh and I use a non-Windows operating system so the Alexa Toolbar doesn't work on my computer - same for a disproportionately large number of daily contributors. So if anything Wikipedia's stats are undercounted by the use of the "power users".
Good day.
-- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)