Re: [Wiki-research-l] Alexa ranking of Wikiversity

Laura, thanks for the useful information! You have one more follower on Twitter :) Best, René Am 31.05.2011 23:30, schrieb Laura Hale: On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 9:15 PM, René König > wrote: Right, the problem is just that Alexa is not "my" research tool an

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Alexa ranking of Wikiversity

On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 9:15 PM, René König wrote: > > > Right, the problem is just that Alexa is not "my" research tool and > therefore it not transparent to me what it actually does. The same goes > for other tools like Google Trends, BTW. Of course, it´s understandable > that these companies d

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Alexa ranking of Wikiversity

On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 8:21 PM, René König wrote: > Thanks everyone! I knew that one should be careful with Alexa but I > didn´t expect it could be THAT wrong. It´s a pity because otherwise it > could be a convenient and interesting tool. The next question is: is > this rather an exception or is

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Alexa ranking of Wikiversity

Am 31.05.2011 12:36, schrieb Fred Bauder: >> Thanks everyone! I knew that one should be careful with Alexa but I >> didn´t expect it could be THAT wrong. It´s a pity because otherwise it >> could be a convenient and interesting tool. The next question is: is >> this rather an exception or is Alex

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Alexa ranking of Wikiversity

On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 12:36 PM, Fred Bauder wrote: > As in physics the nature and limitations of any measuring tool and > concept is part of your research. Personal use of the Alexa toolbar > affects measurements only when what one, or a few, persons do matters in > the statistics. That's not

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Alexa ranking of Wikiversity

> Thanks everyone! I knew that one should be careful with Alexa but I > didn´t expect it could be THAT wrong. It´s a pity because otherwise it > could be a convenient and interesting tool. The next question is: is > this rather an exception or is Alexa in general not reliable? Maybe I > shouldn´t u

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Alexa ranking of Wikiversity

Thanks everyone! I knew that one should be careful with Alexa but I didn´t expect it could be THAT wrong. It´s a pity because otherwise it could be a convenient and interesting tool. The next question is: is this rather an exception or is Alexa in general not reliable? Maybe I shouldn´t use it

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Alexa ranking of Wikiversity

Laura Hale, 30/05/2011 21:35: > Alexa statstics can be easily manipulated to a degree. The discrepancy > could be as simple as having one or two users from Russia who have the > Alexa toolbar installed from Russia who visit regularly every day, > whereas the americans who visit don't have Alexa in

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Alexa ranking of Wikiversity

On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 4:26 AM, René König wrote: > > > On the other hand, according to Wikimedia stats, the English Wikiversity > site has much more Views/hr (4,068) than the Russian one (271) and it > also has much more articles (15,718 vs. 1,917). > http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikiversity/EN/

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Alexa ranking of Wikiversity

> Hi, > I realized today that surprinsingly the Russian Wikiversity is better > ranked by Alexa than the English version (ru.wikiversity.org = 53.66% of > wikiveritsy.org´s traffic, en.wikiversity.org only 33.28%). > The description says: > "(...) it is relatively popular among users in the city o

[Wiki-research-l] Alexa ranking of Wikiversity

Hi, I realized today that surprinsingly the Russian Wikiversity is better ranked by Alexa than the English version (ru.wikiversity.org = 53.66% of wikiveritsy.org´s traffic, en.wikiversity.org only 33.28%). The description says: "(...) it is relatively popular among users in the city of Velikiy