How do you determine the number of views a particular Wikipedia page has received?
-----Original Message----- From: Brian J Mingus <[email protected]> To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <[email protected]> Sent: Wed, Nov 4, 2009 3:58 pm Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Wikinews has not failed On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 4:50 PM, Bod Notbod <[email protected]> wrote: > Is it possible that sometimes Wikipedia steals Wikinews' thunder? > > You get something like that kid (not) in a balloon and it > struggles/fails to get on Wikipedia but I assume did OK on Wikinews. > > Sometimes a current event is big enough that Wikipedia can cover it > without fear of deletion (I think of Katrina) and I seem to recall the > coverage in Wikipedia was amazing. > > Perhaps that means Wikinews can only ever be a little brother because > Wikipedia gets to cover the big stories as well as Wikinews ever will. > > The [[Colorado balloon incident]] Wikipedia article has had 120,000 views. I'm sure that the [[6-year-old boy in Colorado found alive, unhurt after runaway balloon allegedly carried him away]] article on Wikinews received far, far less attention. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
