Perhaps our readers aren't getting their topics of interest on Wikipedia, partly because Wikipedia is becoming nothing more than a biographical encyclopedia.
Regards, Isaac. On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 5:54 PM, James Heilman <jmh...@gmail.com> wrote: > Our data is only comparable between May 2015 and Dec 2017 so: > > Nov/Dec/Jan 15/16 total 15.7, 14.6, 16.2 > > Nov/Dec/Jan 16/17 total 16.4, 15.5, 17.0 > > Nov/Dec/Jan 17/18 total 15.3, 14.3, 16.4 (last number an estimate) > > So went up from 15/16 to 16/17 and now come down in 17/18 to about were it > was in 15/16. We are definitely not seeing growth in pageviews though which > is concerning. > > James > > > > On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 5:10 AM, Wojciech Pędzich <wpedz...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > In order to have at least a partial answer we would need to know how the > > pageviews relate to actual database traffic I assume? That would explain > > Google and I do not know whether there are any other services worldwide > > that use the datastram without actually displaying pages. > > > > Wojciech > > > > 2018-01-23 11:55 GMT+01:00 Anders Wennersten <m...@anderswennersten.se>: > > > > > We are seeing a steady decrease of page views to our projects > > (Wikipedia). > > > Nov-Dec-Jan it is decreasing in a rate of 5-10% (year-year), and for > big > > > languages like Japanese, Spanish close to 10%, or some months even > more > > > [1] > > > > > > Is there any insights of why this is so? Could it be that Google take > > over > > > accesses with their ever better way of showing results direct (but > then > > > also with showing extracts of Wikipedia articles) . Or that our > interface > > > on mobiles is inferior so we miss accesses from mobiles (now being 54% > of > > > total). Or horror of horror that users look for facts on all new sites > > with > > > fake news instead of Wikipedia? > > > > > > Anders > > > > > > [1] https://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesPageViewsMonthlyCombined.htm > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wik > > > i/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > > wiki/Wikimedia-l > > > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > > > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > > wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > > wiki/Wikimedia-l > > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > > > > > > -- > James Heilman > MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > wiki/Wikimedia-l > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
