[WikiEN-l] We've been overtaken.

[Andrew Gray]

2009/4/21 Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com>:
> 2009/4/21 Ian Woollard <ian.woollard at gmail.com>:
>> Presumably the wikipedia can find out what proportion of its traffic
>> actually comes from China, and compare that with the Alexa statistics.
>> If they're close then it gives some evidence that Alexa have enough
>> toolbars out in the wild in China to give reasonable accuracy.
>
> Yes, that would work. Or, perhaps more easily, we could compare the
> page views per subdomain with the percentages given by Alexa. Are
> those numbers available anywhere?

I don't think there's a handy figure available, but you could probably
get a quick-and-dirty first-order comparison using the viewing figures
for a single high-profile target like the frontpage. Using this
metric, hmm:

en.wp [[Main Page]] - 192870187 in March
en.wp [[Special:Search]] - 474835986 in March

zh.wp [[Wikipedia:首页]] - 925156 in March
zh.wp [[Special:Search]] - 1254441 in March

ratio of pageviews for the main page, ~ 210:1 in favour of enwp; for
search, 380:1 in favour of enwp.

So this would suggest that zhwp, at a very rough estimate, gets about
0.5% to 0.25% of the traffic that enwp does.

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