[Foundation-l] LA Times article / Advertising in Wikipedia

[David Gerard]

On 10/03/2008, gwern0 at gmail.com <gwern0 at gmail.com> wrote:

>  I find this quite sobering from a non-advertising perspective.
>  Is en's coverage in terms of redirects, disambiguation pages, and articles *that* bad? I can't think of any other justification for hundreds of millions of pageviews of Special:Search, unless perhaps this tool is massively overcounting - perhaps it is counting pageviews which gets immediately redirected (before any human sees anything) to an actual article?


No, it's just the obvious one click as opposed to two or three or whatever.

And I don't think the high Wikicharts rankings for [[Wiki]] are
because of a vast public interest in editable websites - I think it
much more likely to be the product of entering "wiki [term]" into
Google or whatever.


- d.