Once I have checked out by stats about a certain German TV programme (Zimmer frei, weekly). Indeed all guests had a WP article and all "wikibumped" during the week before their show. (After a show, the next guest is presented to the audience, and then again and again during the week.) It was difficult for me to say exactly why some guests had bigger bumps than others. Usually, a greater star had bigger total numbers, and the bump was smaller (in comparison to the previous numbers). There is the theory that well known persons do not bump so much because everybody knows them already (Erik Zachte once had the example with Palin and Biden). Now I learn from this Boing Boing contribution that the circumstances of the death matter. The death of Ted Kennedy was not so unexpected, while readers of the Michael Jackson article might have wanted to check out what happened in the last years of Jackson, after the trial. By the way, the international interest for Ted Kennedy was much lower than for the pop singer. Kind regards Ziko
2010/1/8 Bod Notbod <[email protected]> > On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 5:57 PM, David Gerard <[email protected]> wrote: > > > But then, who isn't a contributor since 2004 these days? > > Is there something special about 2004? That's when I became a volunteer. > > Is that recognised as the year things reached critical mass? > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > -- Ziko van Dijk NL-Silvolde _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
