[WikiEN-l] Wikipedia jumps _into_ the top 10.

[charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com]

"Thomas Dalton" wrote

> > Short answer: it's a good indicator of trend.
> 
> It's a good indicator of trend within a small subset of internet
> users. How do you know they are representative of everyone? I doubt
> they are.

You can't _know_. You can look at it daily for a while, and decide it tells you things in real time that are apparent afterwards. 

Go to http://alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?url=en.wikipedia.org, try 5y, Page Views, maximum smoothing. I think if you knew where to look for it you could see the bot articles based on US census data; a year ago it was more prominent. You can see the post-Siegenthaler boom very well. Apart from the trend growth, the other main feature was December 2006, and a big slowdown. 

Charles

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