Indeed. Our (Wikipedias) most visited articles is "littered" with fiction related topics. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Popular_pages
for a list of "most visited" articles. There are links to other tools which provide more detailed statistics. For your convenience: http://wikistics.falsikon.de/2008/wikipedia/en/ Thats the yearly visits. For the sake of our sanity we will ignore statistics on daily or even monthly visits. Wikipedias top 25 most visited article with real content (excluding special pages and the main page as well ass any non-main namespace page ) in 2008 is: 1. Wiki - Software 2. YouTube - Website 3. Barack Obama - Politics 4. Sarah Palin - Politics 5. Facebook - Website 6. The Dark Knight (film) - Pop Culture 7. Wikipedia - Website (US!) 8. Sex - Science (o_O) 9. Deaths in 2008 - General content 10. United States - Science (Geography, socialy and etc) 11. MySpace - Website 12. John McCain - Politics 13. Beatles - Pop Culture - Music 14. 2008 Summer Olympics - Olympics 15. Large Hadron Collider - Science 16. Hotmail - Website 17. Naruto - Pop Cultue - Anime 18. Heroes (TV series) - Pop Culture - Sci fi 19. Google - Website 20. Joe Biden - Politics 21. Lil Wayne - Pop Culture - Music 22. Michael Phelps - Olympics 23. Batman - Pop Culture - Sci fi (or whatever) 24. United States presidential election, 2008 - Politics 25. Miley Cyrus - Pop Culture - Music Now lets analyze all this. First of all please recall that 2008 had two significant events. - The Election in the United States - The Summer Olympics in China Politics: 5 Olympics: 2 Websites: 6 Pop Culture: 7 Other: 5 If we count Other+Olympics+Websites+Politics as real world... Thats 18 real world and 7 pop culture. I do not see the threat of pop culture there... - White Cat On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 1:31 PM, Carcharoth <[email protected]>wrote: > > > Good point. I haven't seen this argument raised prominently before, > that fiction articles *don't* swamp our real-world coverage. It would > be worth trying to get more rigorous results from a wider survey like > this, and finding someone willing to help with some moderate form of > statistical analysis. The number of page views is also something that > should have more prominence in the debate, in my opinion. > > Carcharoth > > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
