Interesting that the 31st and 34th entries "gingering" and "figging" were both linked in a popular reddit thread yesterday: https://old.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/s/m7x0zo5XzU
That's a dead end link. Try to create an archive.org link.
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#72Would have never guessed mobile percentage is this high.
I make it 88% mobile web, 9% desktop, 3% mobile app (why Wikipedia wastes money on a mobile native app is beyond me, but hey).
Surely 3% of total traffic for something like Wikipedia (hyperpopular) is well worth the investment?
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#73Interesting that the 31st and 34th entries "gingering" and "figging" were both linked in a popular reddit thread yesterday: https://old.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/s/m7x0zo5XzU
After thinking about it, those results are probably so high up because people are misspelling "fingering."
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#74The reason of so many entries being made up of "Indian interests", is because the cheap internet provided by Reliance Jio. Purely speculation on my part, but I have seen more internet presence of Indian public after Reliance Jio. That and affordable or cheap even Android phones being easily available. As there's 1.4 billion of us, it was bound to happen at some point, but I think Reliance Jio's cheap internet and eas…
I wonder what the results would look like without the Great Firewall of China.
Not much different if you are still counting the English Wikipedia.
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#75Looking at the November stats, you could conclude that the average internet user is a 20-year old Indian kid that likes cricket and porn.
You mean median, and that is probably a fact.
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#76The numbers look surprising to me if not dodgy.
Like why is "web hosting service" the number 1 result on 27th and not even on the list the day before or after. It isn't really a topical article.
Also even for the topical articles, the movies and TV shows at the top aren't really major blockbusters. Or perhaps it is because the population that watches superhero movies doesn't go on wikipedia.
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#77Anyone have any idea why this one is at the top today with almost double the 2nd entry? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Dee_Dee_Blanchard EDIT: Ah, her daughter was released from prison today. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-67833339
Quite a read though...
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#78Earlier quoted context omitted.
> And the best part is that I can trust this information to be neutral and factually correct. Relatively compared to other sources, sure, but not absolutely. Wikipedia supereditors have their own biases that are obvious when reading articles on topics one has expert knowledge on.
Obviously, Wikipedia editors are human too. As opposed to most other resources, however, Wikipedia has the primary goal to provide high quality information. The contributors are not perfect, but they come astonishingly close to achieving that goal. Of course, you should never blindly trust any source, but in spite of the simple fact that every author has their own "biases", Wikipedia's general level of trustworthines…
> Wikipedia's general level of trustworthiness exceeds that of most other internet resources by far.
This can be true of technical articles, especially covering popular subjects which are likely to be reviewed by enough people that errors get removed.
Anything even tangentially related to politics is hopeless.
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#79Anyone have any idea why this one is at the top today with almost double the 2nd entry? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Dee_Dee_Blanchard EDIT: Ah, her daughter was released from prison today. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-67833339
I assume that plenty of people were released from prison today: it doesn't explain why so many people want to look up this one.
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#80I don’t mean to snark but a little depressive that it is all brands, celebrities, marvel movies, etc, right? I hope there is a long tail we don’t see here where people look up more general knowledge. Would be interesting to see top views per category.