On Wed, 25 Aug 2010, Jodi Schneider wrote:
> Ed Summers has done some nice analysis of the top hosts referenced in article
> space, based on SQL dumps:
> http://inkdroid.org/journal/2010/08/25/top-hosts-referenced-in-wikipedia-part-2/
>
> People with more in-depth knowledge might make something of this -- for
> instance the importance of bots in external links, or the prevalence of
> certain types of information.
A few weeks ago I looked on hosts in the cite news template, and I get
results in line with Ed Summers with news.bbc.co.uk on the top and New
York Times second:
1 14443 news.bbc.co.uk
2 3224 www.nytimes.com
3 2729 query.nytimes.com
4 2675 www.washingtonpost.com
5 1838 www.cnn.com
6 1781 www.guardian.co.uk
7 1584 www.time.com
8 1443 www.telegraph.co.uk
9 1420 www.smh.com.au
10 1278 www.usatoday.com
11 1198 www.abc.net.au
12 1119 www.variety.com
13 1026 select.nytimes.com
14 1006 www.theage.com.au
15 1005 www.timesonline.co.uk
16 987 www.sfgate.com
17 975 sports.espn.go.com
18 969 www.msnbc.msn.com
19 913 findarticles.com
20 904 www.news.com.au
There is a short commentary here:
http://fnielsen.posterous.com/top-news-cites-referenced-from-wikipedia
/Finn
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