Steve Bennett wrote: > Is there a link to that analysis? It would be interesting to see > which are the least requested articles, for example.
I don't have that, but you can visit http://stats.grok.se/en/200909/Mineral_County,_Montana to find out that this article was viewed 368 times during August 2009, whereas http://stats.grok.se/en/200908/Tabaning_Sita_Forest_Park was viewed only 29 times. On sv.wikipedia there is a "gadget" for adding a "tab" to each article, a tab that links to this "stats" website. In word frequency analysis, the expected case is that half of the different words in any text are used only once, a quarter is used only twice, an eighth is used 3 or 4 times, etc. There are different names for such models: Zipf's law, power law distribution, long tail, and so on. More often than not, such terms are used without fully understanding the math behind them. This is a little different from the case of Wikipedia articles, where some articles are perhaps never viewed. But we should expect that a large number of articles are viewed very seldom. So if you ask which articles are least requested, you should probably expect a list of 1.5 million articles (of the 3 million in the English Wikipedia). It's similar to asking which words are least frequently used. With time, we will add another 3 million articles about things that are even less interesting, and a few thousand articles on more interesting topics. It's a different case if you ask the question for a limited set of articles, which you already know something about, for example those about the 56 counties in Montana, which should all be equally boring, or where interest should perhaps be proportional to the population. Which are more or less requested? Is something wrong with some of those articles? -- Lars Aronsson (l...@aronsson.se) Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
