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I 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.

You can kinda see how the lightbulb appeared over Jimmy Wales head with Fandom

Re: Wikipedia daily most viewed pages

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Are people really reading Youtube, pornhub, facebook, Instagram pages this frequently or are these misclicks from search result page?

“Pornhub” alone gets 441 million searches monthly. A lot of people probably decide to randomly read the Wikipedia page.

Re: Wikipedia daily most viewed pages

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post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

There are billion of people in China. If you grant only 0.1% of 1.4118 billion can speak and read English, that's 1,411,800 individuals.

However, if we take Wikipedia's claim at face value, it's actually ten million.[1]

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_English-s...

Re: Wikipedia daily most viewed pages

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So, mostly celebrities, media, and typos, like the rest of the internet. Fortunately, it's got a lot of other stuff too, and unlike the rest of the internet, you can just enter Wikipedia at the point of whatever you're looking up, without being bombarded by recommended content. It's completely self-serve. I'm glad that Wikipedia is not yet incentivized to maximize daily active users—or some other dumb metric—otherwise this would all change.

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I’m always curious as to whether taking the top 1% (say) of articles in Wikipedia (ordered by view frequency over a year say) and possibly adding the articles that link to those to some depth (say 3 deep) would feel very different to the full version to most users.

Re: Wikipedia daily most viewed pages

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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.

If one has an IMDb account it's possible to get a "reference view" by default which looks better in my opinion (old IMDb-style): "Account Settings" - "Content Settings" - "Show reference view".

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post #80

I 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.

"Most viewed" is a very incomplete statistic. I often "view" pages just to look up something like "is this film worth watching?" or "what else has this person directed and is worth watching?" – kind of like a reference similar to imdb, except without imdb's clunky interface.

But this "view" isn't really a "read". There are other pages I've also read much more in-depth, and in terms of "time spent" it would probably rank much higher.

I'm sure some people do read these pages more in-depth too, but there's no real way to tell who is using them merely as a reference and who is actually reading them.

Back when phone books were common it was probably the most "viewed" book.

Re: Wikipedia daily most viewed pages

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It's really surprising how much of the entries are coming from linear TV. I think on the German stats it's around half the entries. Rest of the top entries is news & sports, many of them also pushed by linear TV. Maybe it's just the holiday season, but still interesting to see.

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post #110

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 co…

You're only reading that as a political jab because you're too entranced in American partisan politics. Americans are a minority among the portion of the world's population that can read English easily enough to consult the English language Wikipedia. When doing so, the rest us can use a brief reminder of what's ultimately a rather quaint aspect of the US: The fact that healthcare costs are a significant concern of e…

I think you're on the right track here. For instance, I have no idea whether or not Brazil has a universal healthcare system, so if the article was about a company in Brazil, such a note would be relevant to me. The USA population includes approximately between a quarter and a half of the world's English speakers, depending on whether you count English as a second language or not. Therefore it's reasonable to assume that the majority of English speakers won't have a personal connection to the USA or necessarily have knowledge of their politics.

As for this specific article about the Big Three, the statement in question was added by user GoldDragon[1], who was banned for 'sock-puppetry' in 2011 and, by their edit history, appears to have hailed from Ontario, Canada.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Big_Three_(automo...

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One very curious thing I ran into today: this morning I woke up and when I checked my phone, the (Spanish) Wikipedia page for Cleopatra was open on my browser. I didn't myself open that intentionally, but I thought I must have accidentally tapped on some links while I was asleep, and ended up there. But now I see this website and it turns out that "Cleopatra" is consistently one of the most visited pages in the Spani…

Funny you mention that. I was also confused by this same experience! I was recently introduced to the theory that most of the internet is bot activity and very little legitimate user activity. I think from a pure ratio perspective that’s very true, and this list made me ask “this is what people want to know about?” I was hoping to see people researching higher level queries, most of this seems like film and tv or fairly basic concepts like “sex”.
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