[Foundation-l] Request for your input: biographies of living people

[David Gerard]

2009/3/2 David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com>:

> I just went to get some actual data. Here's the stats.grok.se hit
> count for [[:en:Wikipedia:Contact us]] and its subpages:
> 232227 Wikipedia:Contact us
>    - ranked #366 page on Wikipedia for Feb 2009
> 2230   Wikipedia:Contact us/account questions
> 7773   Wikipedia:Contact us/Article problem
> 2016   Wikipedia:Contact us/Article problem/Copyright
> 472    Wikipedia:Contact us/Article problem/Delete or undelete
> 1793   Wikipedia:Contact us/Article problem/Factual error
> 620    Wikipedia:Contact us/Article problem/Factual error (from enterprise)
> 1196   Wikipedia:Contact us/Article problem/Factual error (from subject)
> 474    Wikipedia:Contact_us/Article_problem/Google_Earth
> 428    Wikipedia:Contact us/Article problem/No article
> 711    Wikipedia:Contact us/Article problem/Poorly written
> 1967   Wikipedia:Contact us/Article problem/Vandalism
> 2021   Wikipedia:Contact us/blocked
> 2718   Wikipedia:Contact us/Contact a user
> 2160   Wikipedia:Contact us/Links
> 1893   Wikipedia:Contact us/login problems
> 3106   Wikipedia:Contact us/other
> 6704   Wikipedia:Contact us/Photo submission
> 3570   Wikipedia:Contact us/Top questions
> 2228   Wikipedia:Contact us/Warning messages


I said I'd check back in a week, didn't I ... er. Well, the new links
have been on [[Help:Contents]] for most of March!

The numbers from stats.grok.se show March hits so far as:

    * Wikipedia:Contact us/Article problem - 11595 (up from 7773 in
Feb and 8259 in Jan)
    * Wikipedia:Contact us - 253665 (up from 232227 in Feb and down
from 279774 in Jan)

The increased hits on "article problem" may be worth the effort. The
increased hits on "Contact us" not so much.

The problem, of course, is that every new link or word of text on that
page lowers its utility. That "help!" page should be as sparse as
possible for user interface reasons.

What do you all think?


- d.