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>
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