QUOTE(Fusion @ Sat 31st December 2011, 7:04am)
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It is not the same. Melloden said that one article about an octopus had attracted many views. I was asking (not making a point, genuinely asking a question to get information) how many articles in total in Wikipedia had had so many views.
Oh, you were being sincere?! I'm not used to that here, sorry. (IMG:
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We can probably deduce an average page views per Wikipedia article statistic in a couple of ways.
Some facts:There are about
16 billion monthly page views of all language Wikipedias, (I assume) including article and non-article pages.
English Wikipedia articles represent
about 20% of all language Wikipedia articles.
Some assumptions:Article traffic probably constitutes at least 50% of all page traffic on the English Wikipedia.
The English Wikipedia probably gets at least 150% more than its relative "share" of multi-language global page traffic, given that it's the largest Wikipedia and English is a globally dominant language.
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Given those facts and assumptions, one might conclude:
16,000,000,000
x 0.20
x 0.50
x 1.50
= 2,400,000,000 English Wikipedia article page views per month
Given that there are about 3.9 million English Wikipedia articles, that's about 615 page views per article, per month, on average.
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Another way of checking might be to take X random English Wikipedia articles, then check their actual monthly page views with the
Henrik tool.
I tried 15 random articles, and their November 2011 page views were as follows:
166
3359
75
908
375
60
248
76
200
312
2476
189
104
7877
243
Or, an average of (13143 / 15)
876 page views per article per month.
Note that my 58,000 Examiner page views are now spread across 53 articles all together, but I began 18 months ago with just 1 article, so is it somewhat fair to say that my average page views per article are something like 58,000 divided by (let's say) 30, or approximately 1,933 page views per Examiner article, which we would then divide by 18 months to get an average of
107 page views per Examiner article per month?
Or, we could look at the 3,400 page views I've had in December, across 51 or 52 existing articles, which would be in the neighborhood of
65 or 70 page views per Examiner article per month.
Therefore, one might conclude that my Examiner articles are proportionally anywhere from one-twelfth to one-seventh as popular as a typical Wikipedia page. Plus, I get paid. For both.
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