[WikiEN-l] Citizendium vs. Wikipedia

[Ian Woollard]

It looks like it might be related to "The Beatles: Rock Band" which seems to
be by far the worlds most expensive video game or something. It was announced
last September or so and there were more news stories about it on the
20th/21st this month.

It is a bit suspicious that the interest is staying so high though,
usually the peaks die away more quickly, but I think that's it.

On 22/04/2009, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2009/4/22 Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com>:
>> 2009/4/22 geni <geniice at gmail.com>:
>>> 2009/4/22 David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com>:
>>>> 2009/4/22  <WJhonson at aol.com>:
>>>>
>>>>> Is there a list of the top100 most popular Wikipedia pages?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> http://stats.grok.se/
>>>>
>>>
>>> http://wikistics.falsikon.de/2009/wikipedia/en/
>>> http://wikistics.falsikon.de/latest/wikipedia/en/
>>>
>>> Are more up to date. And no I can't explain why the article on the
>>> Beatles is as popular as it is. It should be popular yes but not that
>>> popular. Wounder if it is being used by something to check to see if
>>> it can access the net.
>>
>> Well, something happened on 21 November 2008
>>
>> http://stats.grok.se/en/200811/The_Beatles
>>
>> Any guesses? Something checking a net connection is possible, but
>> personally I use google.com for that, and so do most people I've
>> looked over the shoulder of. That or bbc.co.uk. Why would someone use
>> the Wikipedia article on The Beatles?
>
> Someone on IRC has realised that it didn't start on the 21st, that's
> just when the hits moved from [[Beatles]] to [[The Beatles]]. It
> actually started gradually last September...

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-Ian Woollard

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