[WikiEN-l] Wikipedia up and down
David Gerard
dgerard at gmail.com
Thu Nov 17 14:12:44 UTC 2005
Charles Matthews wrote:
>Agree. OTOH WP is a reference site. There will be many people who come to
>WP with the aim of looking up some one thing. This gives a natural pattern
>of short visits, not surfing around. The overall reach shows the users who
>arrive knowing they want to look something up, plus the input from search
>engines. We shouldn't get too hung up about the number of page views. If
>people find what they want on the first page they view, so much the better.
For me, page views are working about 2/3 of the time and edits are
working not very often. So I wouldn't be so blase about the numbers
... Do we have any numbers about requests made vs requests served? I
assume the devs are *painfully* aware.
- d.
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