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Re: Wikipedia daily most viewed pages

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Post by mrweasel »

cm2187 wrote: post #76

The 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.

Quite a few of these looks weird, almost as if number of people are typing something into a search engine. The weirdest one to me are: YouTube, PornHub, XNXX and Facebook. It's almost like people are just typing these into their browsers address bar, but are for some reason redirected to Wikipedias search.

Re: Wikipedia daily most viewed pages

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Post by inemesitaffia »

DougEiffel wrote: post #73
nr11_bullseye wrote: post #57

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

After thinking about it, those results are probably so high up because people are misspelling "fingering."

gingering is a word somewhere I know

Re: Wikipedia daily most viewed pages

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Post by epipolar »

kapitanjakc wrote: post #65

The 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…

Although Jio was the one to trigger a step change in pricing, other telecom players eventually had to offer data plans at competitive rates. I wouldn't attribute these numbers to Jio alone, instead to generally cheap internet in India

Re: Wikipedia daily most viewed pages

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Post by mrweasel »

It's interesting that others seems to go the same route as I do for movies and TV shows and just use Wikipedia rather than IMDB. IMDB has become so awful to use and shows no sign of improving. Apparently IMDB don't believe that they have any competition and over the years people have just started to add the same information to Wikipedia.

Re: Wikipedia daily most viewed pages

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Post by kapitanjakc »

epipolar wrote: post #83
kapitanjakc wrote: post #65

The 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…

Although Jio was the one to trigger a step change in pricing, other telecom players eventually had to offer data plans at competitive rates. I wouldn't attribute these numbers to Jio alone, instead to generally cheap internet in India

Yup, very much agreed, as I said Jio was the catalyst.

Re: Wikipedia daily most viewed pages

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Post by stavros »

VBprogrammer wrote: post #14
casperb wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I had the same question. Seems like the perpetrator (her daughter?) was released from prison yesterday: https://www.google.com/search?q=Dee+Dee+Blanchard&sca_esv=59...

I'm surprised none of you have heard of the story. It was subject to a pretty interesting dramatisation only a year or two ago. She may have killed her mother but doing so was not too far from self defense in my mind.

She didn't kill her mother, though. She had someone else do it. I guess that's the problem, and I think he's still in prison.

Re: Wikipedia daily most viewed pages

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Post by jl6 »

AnthonyMouse wrote: post #78
carschno wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Not completely true. There are two different types of political articles: 1) Those where two opposing edit-warring factions have battled each other into a compromise/stalemate, resulting in a passably neutral article, and 2) Those where a single aligned group of edit-warriors have gained supremacy and have come to gatekeep the article against any opposing perspectives.

Re: Wikipedia daily most viewed pages

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Post by AnthonyMouse »

jl6 wrote: post #87
AnthonyMouse wrote: post #78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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.

Not completely true. There are two different types of political articles: 1) Those where two opposing edit-warring factions have battled each other into a compromise/stalemate, resulting in a passably neutral article, and 2) Those where a single aligned group of edit-warriors have gained supremacy and have come to gatekeep the article against any opposing perspectives.

It's worse than that. It affects the entire site. Here's an example:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Three_(automobile_manufact...

> "GM, for instance, at one time picked up the entire cost of funding health insurance premiums of its employees, their survivors and GM retirees, as the US did not have a universal health care system."

This is an article about automakers. The reason they picked up future healthcare costs is because they're future healthcare costs, which lets the bosses pay themselves bonuses from current profits and then the company can go bankrupt from unfunded future obligations after they've moved on to another company. The reason isn't that the US doesn't have a universal healthcare system, and even if it did, they could have provided supplemental insurance etc., and would still have wanted to because that too is a future cost instead of a present day one.

The reason that qualifier is there is as a dig against the US healthcare system, in a way that aligns with particular partisans. The opposing partisan might have inserted something like "as the US has high healthcare costs as a result of regulatory dysfunction" though of course neutrality would have been to say neither of them because it's an article about automakers rather than healthcare systems.

And yet it's there, and that kind of thing is all over the place.

Re: Wikipedia daily most viewed pages

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Post by episteme »

incompatible wrote: post #79
issung wrote: post #4

Anyone 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.

It makes sense once you've read the article. Not everyday a person who has been through something so unusual and awful with multiple media interpretations gets released.

Re: Wikipedia daily most viewed pages

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Post by VBprogrammer »

stavros wrote: post #86
VBprogrammer wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm surprised none of you have heard of the story. It was subject to a pretty interesting dramatisation only a year or two ago. She may have killed her mother but doing so was not too far from self defense in my mind.

She didn't kill her mother, though. She had someone else do it. I guess that's the problem, and I think he's still in prison.

Yeah, that's true. Also the preplanning aspect of it. I think if she'd have just snapped and killed her mum herself it wouldn't have gone to court. But someone who lived through that doubtlessly had a strange view of the world so judging her behaviour though any rational lens is probably slightly unfair.
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