[Foundation-l] clicking on links

[Thomas Dalton]

http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/squids/SquidReportOrigins.htm

Well, if I'm interpreting this correctly, then nearly 90% of our hits
come from people following internal links, so somebody must be
clicking on them! However, you do make a good point: we have done
studies watching how people edit, we haven't done any (to the best of
my knowledge) watching how they read. Perhaps we should.

On 20 April 2010 20:11, Amir E. Aharoni <amir.aharoni at mail.huji.ac.il> wrote:
> There was lately a lot of research about making Wikipedia's usability better
> for editing.
>
> Is there any research about the way in which Wikipedia's Actual Readers use
> hyperlinks in Wikipedia, both internal and external?
>
> I am wondering about it, because you know, we have Manual of Style for
> internal and external links, essays about the pros and cons of red links,
> bots that remove over-linking etc. - yet time after time i meet Actual
> Readers that tell me that they didn't understand a word in an article, even
> though this word was linked to a good article that explained its meaning.
> But they didn't click it and because of that they gave up on understanding
> the whole article.
>
> If One Stupid Reader would tell me such a thing, i wouldn't mind, but Many
> Clever Readers told me that. Did anyone try to think about it deeply?
>
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