Sorry if I seemed negative! I am just responding to your comments in the
same way I have been trying to decide how to measure stuff to enable my
wikiprojects to move forward. This is very frustrating stuff! I also agree
that editor activity is probably a very good way to measure all sorts of
things
I think you are reading my comments too negatively. I’m not saying to ignore
pageviews or incoming links. I’m saying that a naïve look at their stats may
not be as useful as some of the variations I mention. I think it is worth
looking at pageviews relative to those articles in the same WikiProj
I like to think that in time importance will win out over popularity. If
Wikipedia still exists in fifty of five hundred years time and we are still
using pasteurisation and indeed still eating hydrocarbon based foods, then I
suspect the pop group you mention will be less frequently read about t
Yes I totally agree that "importance is a relative metric rather than
absolute." I also agree that incoming links and pageviews are not accurate
measurements of "importance" for all of the reasons you mention. However,
we are still a project that is actively exploring the universe of
knowledge, and
