Yes, I meant the second one. This graph shows it better: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Page_views_when_articles_go_on_fawiki_home_page.png
Huji On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 3:11 AM Kaartic Sivaraam < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi Huji, > > On Wed, 18 Mar 2020 at 05:36, Huji Lee <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Lastly, analysis of data from fawiki's main page (which gets ~50K views > a day) shows that taking something to the main page only increases its > daily page views by about a few hundred times a day. > > There's room for misinterpretation of the phrase "... its daily page > views by about a few hundred times a day ...". It could be read in the > following ways: > > 1. "... its daily page view increases by a few 100x ..." which means > that if the current page view is 10000 then putting a link in the main > page leads to a page view of 1000000 (this is a significant > increase!). > 2. "... its daily page view increases by a few 100 views ..." which > means that if the current page view is 10000 then putting a link in > the main page leads to a page view of 10100 (not so significant). > > I believe you meant the second one. > > > Those pages are topic of the day (like COVID-19 pages right now) will > get most of their viewership through other mechanisms, mainly Google > searches. To assume that Wikipedia's "main page" is the starting page for a > large group of users, or when they go to find new information, seems to be > inaccurate. Spending time on improving those articles and letting search > engines guide the readers to those articles seems to be a better use of > time. > > > > FWIW, as a person who just follows the Wikipedia communities from the > outside, I would say that your POV seems to be valid. Focusing on > content and letting the search engines do the rest is a valid claim. > > That said, I also believe that it's a good idea to have a links to > COVID related articles in the main page for several reasons. It aids > better reach (definitely what we want). It's aids quick access to the > related articles. As it's curated, it's more likely to point to the > top articles related to the epidemic and very less likely to point to > spam articles that might spring up at these times. Just my opinion. > > -- > Sivaraam > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-ambassadors mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-ambassadors >
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