2008/11/10 Andrew Gray shimgray@gmail.com:
2008/11/10 Carcharoth carcharothwp@googlemail.com:
I particularly liked the point where it compared the number of hits on news sites to the number of hits on Wikipedia.
I ran some more detailed statistics on this at the weekend, incidentally - I'll try and post them tonight. Long post, though...
Obama's article was getting about 50% more hits than McCain's, with Palin somewhere in the middle of the two (!). Interestingly, there was a *proportionally* higher hitrate on Obama's policies article than there was on McCains (though both were getting pleasingly high rates for daughter articles)
Okay, here's some notes - I posted them to the wiki rather than here in order not to dump a huge load of text on the list. Also, there's a graph!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Shimgray/Election_statistics
Comments to the usual address - if I get the chance over the next week I'll expand it and try to figure out another way of looking at the data. The stuff with daughter articles is quite promising, and it'd be interesting to compare this to some "normal" biographies with that many daughter pages...