[Foundation-l] Outdated manual

Svip svippy at gmail.com
Sat Apr 9 08:18:33 UTC 2011


On 9 April 2011 10:14, Milos Rancic <millosh at gmail.com> wrote:

> May someone update manual in which it is written that Wikipedia is the
> fifth site by traffic? For the most of 2010 and whole 2011 it has varied
> between 6th and 8th place [1].
>
> Repeating that it's on the 5th place says about us one or both of the
> next two things:
>
> * We are out of reality.
> * We are using false information in our PR.
>
> I would say that it is about repeating an information written somewhere
> again and again. However, it is not so obvious to outsiders.

I dunno if we need to be that specific.  I doubt people take the '5th
place' wording as literal.  It is more to get a sense of Wikipedia's
popularity online rather than stating specifically where we are.
Though, perhaps a more imprecise wording like 'in the top 10' might be
a better offer.



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