With respect to some anecdotal evidence, I have for many years asked the medical students who work with me on their clinical rotations how they study. I get a few passes through my department a month.
Most reported using Wikipedia 5 to 10 years back. Now sources like Osmosis, which are basically short video overviews with questions banks attached, are more commonly mentioned. Video is becoming a more common way for younger folks to learn. James On Fri, Jan 7, 2022 at 3:55 PM Mohamed ElGohary <[email protected]> wrote: > "Is the traffic measured where content is read" would be a better way of > putting it. > > -- > Gohary (ircpresident) > > On Sat, Jan 8, 2022 at 12:52 AM Juergen Fenn <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Anders raised the question how this relates to "smarter" machine-created >> traffic. Do we know more about this? >> >> Best Regards, >> Jürgen. >> >> Am 07.01.22 um 21:45 Uhr schrieb James Heilman: >> > Have been tracking medical pageviews for EN WP for more than 10 years. >> > It appears our readership peaked around 2014, there was a bump during >> > the pandemic, and now the fall in pageviews is continuing again... This >> > despite much of our pageviews for medicine continuing to be related to >> > the pandemic. >> > >> > >> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Change_in_medical_pageviews_from_2009_until_2014.png >> > < >> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Change_in_medical_pageviews_from_2009_until_2014.png >> > >> > >> > >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Medicine/Popular_pages >> > < >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Medicine/Popular_pages >> > >> > >> > James >> > >> > On Fri, Jan 7, 2022 at 11:09 AM Toni Ristovski <[email protected] >> > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> > >> > Additionally, pandemic 2020 with a lot of lockdowns makes many >> > people commit to different activities, among them starting editing >> > on Wikipedia or reading more. Basically, in my opinion it is better >> > to compare with 2019 numbers. Also, it will be useful to have some >> > kind of survey about this which can give us a better overview of >> > these data. >> > >> > As I`m editor and admin on Macedonian Wikipedia, I was quite >> > surprised that our Wikipedia actually continues to grow in terms of >> > reading and having a stable editing base. >> > >> > All the best, >> > Toni >> > >> > On Fri, Jan 7, 2022 at 6:52 PM Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga >> > <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> > >> > There's another option: the 2020 pandemic lockdowns made a huge >> > peak on views, so year on year, 2021 has worse results. >> > >> > 2022(e)ko urt. 7(a) 18:41 erabiltzaileak hau idatzi du (Anders >> > Wennersten <[email protected] >> > <mailto:[email protected]>>): >> > >> > When I look at statistics for mature wikipedias: en, de pl, >> > nl they all >> > show a decrease of views of 13-15% in last 12 months from a >> > year ago, >> > and number of active editors down 10- 20 % (with exception >> > of en). >> > >> > Has this been analysed somewhere, are we losing our readers >> and >> > contributors or is it mostly Google that access our info >> > "smarter" not >> > creating "views" >> > >> > Anders >> > >> > https://stats.wikimedia.org/#/de.wikipedia.org >> > <https://stats.wikimedia.org/#/de.wikipedia.org> >> > >> > https://stats.wikimedia.org/#/en.wikipedia.org >> > <https://stats.wikimedia.org/#/en.wikipedia.org> >> > >> > https://stats.wikimedia.org/#/nl.wikipedia.org >> > <https://stats.wikimedia.org/#/nl.wikipedia.org> >> > >> > https://stats.wikimedia.org/#/pl.wikipedia.org >> > <https://stats.wikimedia.org/#/pl.wikipedia.org> >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Wikimedia-l mailing list -- [email protected] >> > <mailto:[email protected]>, guidelines at: >> > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines >> > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines> >> > and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l >> > 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