On Tue, 23 Jan 2018 11:55:07 +0100
Anders Wennersten <m...@anderswennersten.se> wrote:

> We are seeing a steady decrease of page views to our projects 
> (Wikipedia). Nov-Dec-Jan it is decreasing in a rate of 5-10% 
> (year-year), and for big languages like Japanese,  Spanish close to 10%, 
> or some months even more  [1]
> 
> Is there any insights of why this is so? Could it be that Google take 
> over accesses with their ever better way of showing results direct  (but 
> then also with showing extracts of Wikipedia articles) . 

I think this is a likely contributing cause.

> Or that our 
> interface on mobiles is inferior so we miss accesses from mobiles (now 
> being 54% of total). Or horror of horror that users look for facts on 
> all new sites with fake news instead of Wikipedia?
> 
> Anders
> 
> [1] https://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesPageViewsMonthlyCombined.htm
> 
> 
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