On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 9:55 PM, Robert Rohde <raro...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 8:25 PM, Steve Bennett <stevag...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 12:20 PM, Robert Rohde <raro...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> That particular result is unpublished. I could make you a list of > >> infrequently viewed articles, but it would be quite long. > > > > Could you make a list of the 100 least viewed? Or are there are large > > number which are essentially equal? > > My sample consisted of collating 30 non-consecutive hours of data on > enwiki traffic where each hour was randomly chosen from any point > during the last 8 months. This was filtered to only include page > titles that were valid mainspace pages. > > In those 30 hours, there are 1.36 million valid article titles that > are viewed exactly once [1]. > > Examples include: > > 129342_Ependes > 1421_in_literature > Antiprotonic_helium > Antonella_Mularoni > Madhusoodhanan_Nair > Blue_Murder_(play) > Ozonotherapy > Veronika_Krausas > Verret,_New_Brunswick > Bare_Truth_(Nat_album) > > As you can see, these are obscure topics, but they are not necessarily > crazy topics. If I were to repeat it with a longer baseline (say 1000 > hours rather than 30) I'm suspect you might get more interesting > information on the tail, but right now probably the best I can say is > that a cumulatively significant amount of traffic goes to relatively > obscure pages. > > -Robert Rohde > > [1] Note: Because the traffic data is based on url request stings, and > some url strings map to the same pages, i.e. Blue_Ocean and > Blue%20Ocean, the number of valid article titles in not necessarily > the same as the number of distinct pages. For practical reasons my > analysis was based of the url strings, and so probably over counts the > number of distinct articles involved, and to a degree overstates the > fraction of traffic to obscure pages. How sure are you that they were viewed by a person and not a bot? _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
