[Foundation-l] Outdated manual

MZMcBride z at mzmcbride.com
Sun Apr 10 22:20:40 UTC 2011


Sue Gardner wrote:
> On 9 April 2011 01:14, 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.
> 
> The top five websites as measured by comScore global unique visitors,
> the industry standard for internet audience measurement, are: Google,
> Microsoft, Facebook, Yahoo, Wikimedia. That's February 2011 data, the
> most recent available.

As far as I understand this, that would mean that saying "Wikipedia is the
fifth most visited website" is still completely wrong, as the comScore data
is an aggregate of the various Wikimedia wikis. As the Director of
Wikipedia, I would think this would be rather obvious to you. ;-)

MZMcBride





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