The slow but steady decrease in readerships is known and has been identified for a long. An important niche of readership are quick answers for trivia (such as "what's the capital of X country") and there are tools (some of those, powered by Wikidata) working better than a classical google search and clicking on the Wikipedia article.
I mean, we talked a lot about this during Strategy. We just must find a solution. F. Missatge de RonnieV <[email protected]> del dia ds., 8 de gen. 2022 a les 10:03: > Could there something be wrong with the presentation? > > The total number of edits at the English Wikipedia should have dropped > 21,23% https://stats.wikimedia.org/#/en.wikipedia.org > <https://stats.wikimedia.org/#/en.wikipedia.org]> > The numbers at > https://stats.wikimedia.org/#/en.wikipedia.org/contributing/edits/normal|table|2-year|~total|monthly > do show 63.8M edits in 2021 and only 61.5M in 2020. > > Do I misinterpret the graph? > --- > Met vriendelijke groet, > > RonnieV > > > Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga schreef op 2022-01-07 18:51: > > 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]>): > > 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/#/en.wikipedia.org > > https://stats.wikimedia.org/#/nl.wikipedia.org > > https://stats.wikimedia.org/#/pl.wikipedia.org > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list -- [email protected], guidelines > at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > Public archives at > https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/[email protected]/message/66FNJZYIDINNHVOBRBWQ7WCBD6EHUMLC/ > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list -- [email protected], guidelines > at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > Public archives at > https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/[email protected]/message/AIZF4GBG63E6PS3IQOOYLY6QUKZL526H/ > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list -- [email protected], guidelines > at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > Public archives at > https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/[email protected]/message/MZT6AWY7DN4NZQ72V2HID6TABKV4MZBZ/ > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
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