On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 8:16 PM, Steve Bennett stevagewp@gmail.com wrote:
On 3/5/08, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
These are from new logs gathered from the squids. Enter an article and
see!
Very, very interesting. This tool has the potentially to seriously shape discussions about notability and the benefit of retaining certain articles. Going through the list of articles I started, I see a big range from less than five per day up to several hundred. I think my most popular article is [[Female urination device]]. Recently deceased people do well. Anything pop culture does well. Roads, parks, long forgotten historical figures do badly.
Steve
Not to sound pedantic about it, but "anything" pop culture? Even outdated pop culture? The point I make is that "long-forgotten historical figures" tend to be something people might actually turn to an encyclopaedia for for at least the foreseeable future, but pop culture is well, pop. Just a reminder for everyone that a month's snapshot isn't that helpful.... compare the 10-12 hits a day for Edward Grey, a relatively undistinguished Foreign Secretary of the distant past with, say, the 17 hits a day for "The Great and Powerful Turtle", a character from an ongoing, if declining, SF series....
RR