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Wikipedia Announces Their Most Viewed Articles Of 2016 (wikipedia.org)
Slashdot reader westand writes, "Wikipedia's 5000 most-visited articles of 2016 have been released, and Donald Trump leads the pack." (Though the site's second-most popular article was about a porn site.)
The top 5000 pages account for 21.6 billion views, with 42% of those being mobile traffic... After artificial traffic is discounted, election and celebrity deaths feature prominently.
Wikipedia's article about the U.S. presidential election of 2016 also came in at #11, while their articles about Melania Trump and Hillary Clinton came in at #16 and #19, respectively. Other top-20 articles covered deaths in 2016, as well as "Prince (musician)" and David Bowie, with four more articles that covered 2016 superhero movies also reaching the top 20. (Along with "List of Bollywood films of 2016".) The eighth most-popular article was about web scraping, while Wikipedia's 404.php page was actually more popular than any article on the site.
The original submission also points out that 323 million views were covered by The Wikipedia Zero project, in which mobile operators in the Global South ""'zero-rate' access to Wikimedia sites in their billing system, so their subscribers will not incur data charges while accessing Wikipedia and the sister projects on the mobile web or apps." And Wikipedia adds that their list is generated by Andrew G. West, a senior research scientist at Verisign Labs who "is particularly interested in academic collaboration regarding this English Wikipedia dataset."
Wikipedia's article about the U.S. presidential election of 2016 also came in at #11, while their articles about Melania Trump and Hillary Clinton came in at #16 and #19, respectively. Other top-20 articles covered deaths in 2016, as well as "Prince (musician)" and David Bowie, with four more articles that covered 2016 superhero movies also reaching the top 20. (Along with "List of Bollywood films of 2016".) The eighth most-popular article was about web scraping, while Wikipedia's 404.php page was actually more popular than any article on the site.
The original submission also points out that 323 million views were covered by The Wikipedia Zero project, in which mobile operators in the Global South ""'zero-rate' access to Wikimedia sites in their billing system, so their subscribers will not incur data charges while accessing Wikipedia and the sister projects on the mobile web or apps." And Wikipedia adds that their list is generated by Andrew G. West, a senior research scientist at Verisign Labs who "is particularly interested in academic collaboration regarding this English Wikipedia dataset."
So the line-up is like this: Main Page followed by "Hyphen-minus" and 404 Page Not Fount, then Donald Trump. And what's after Donald J. Trump, you may ask? Why, XHampster of course!
If you want news from today, you have to come back tomorrow.
Kill Wikipeed Zero! Make the Global Brown pay for their Wikipeed data charges!
The article about the porn site has more moral credibility that Trump, but not by much.
World leaders are not keen to have anything to do with Trump, with the exception of a dictator and former spy master. The US risks being marginalised or worse. Although it will be a lot of fun to watch from the outside. During the campaign, Trump was threatening a trade war with China which will be very interesting, considering China holds much of the US debt.
The US people electing Trump might turn out to be as big a mistake at the UK voting to leave the EU and just as lonely.
That's just yuggggge - Trump beating the top porn site as the most searched item. I'm guessing it's not regarding the size of his hands
Making Sex Great Again - since most millennials have stopped having sex
Amazing... Winston Churchill (7,517,385) ahead of Justin Bieber (7,376,207). How can that be? A flickering of intelligence? Nah, must be some other explanation.
When all you have is a hammer, every problem starts to look like a thumb.
Kids needing to do school assignments...
I bet the GNAA page is still in the top 100!!!
STEM topics notably missing from top 5,000. Plate tectonics squeezes in at #4994, transistor at #4839. Probably a few more up higher, but they get vanishingly rare. At least "global warming" is ahead of Play Station 4.
When all you have is a hammer, every problem starts to look like a thumb.
Bitcoin is more popular than Sex (#844)!
And C (programming language) is #1403. That might not seem very high, but James Bond was #1463.
Other than that, it's pretty much Celebs all the way down.
Compare poplarity with % mobile users
60% Trump
94% xHamster
55% Suicide Squad film
54% David Bowie
67% Elizabeth II
i.e. All above and similar are the result of recent TV, or about the rich and famous.
Now look at vaguely technical popular articles not about people, films, specific places. (Have to look way down the list to find these.)
9% Earth
3% Java (programming language)
4% HTTPS
33% Syrian civil war (#277)
42% Apple corp (probably just looking for the web site)
45% United Nations #634
And mobile is the future.
Lambda cube (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lambda_cube) is not on the list? After Trump held a press conference on it, I thought for sure it's popularity would surge.
that, and Justin Bieber getting old.
When all you have is a hammer, every problem starts to look like a thumb.
What this tells me is that most people use Wikipedia to look up "trivia", a term that has been banished from Wikipedia in favor of "In Popular Culture"...
If you want news from today, you have to come back tomorrow.
currently wikipedia has a extreme bias toward western secular globalist "liberal" elitist interventionist pov, due to power of entrenched editors.
prime example is article on british empire; a regime that engaged in all types of atrocities (to greater degree than any other regime in history) to exploit resources of others. genocide, ethnic cleansing, slavery, preventable famines killing millions, torture, brutal suppressions of widespread resistance, etc., etc., well in to 1970s.
but modern secular globalist "liberal" elites are direct beneficiaries of that regime, and their interventionist ideology is a direct descendant of that regime.
so there is a marked contrast between wikipedia article on british empire and articles on similar brutish regimes like stalin's ussr and mao's china etc.
well known atrocities are mentioned at a minimum, atrocities that are less well known, like famines, are ignored, while sun shining all day is mentioned.
this is so even when well sourced separate articles on these atrocities exist in wikipedia itself.
article's history page(not to mention frequent locking of page) is evidence of editors concerted attempts censor links to even wikipedia articles with short summary text in british empire article. even the "talk" page is censored to prevent discussion.
The tech-related topic highest up on the list, on number 8: web scraping.
I find it utterly strange that this particular corner of the tech world is so high up there. I would have expected new computer languages to be up there, like Swift or Rust.
So I look down the list and on number 42 no less: Java!
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Yeah, conservapedia is where we get all the right answers from. Their article on relativity is much more informative than Wikipedia's.
SJW n. One who posts facts.
THose numbers seem just too small. Given the popularity of Messi or Ronaldo or ManU and yet they only got a few million hits, which doesnt seem right. ARe we to beleive hundreds of million sof people watch and support those players and teams and barely a fraction perhaps something around 1% of them even visited their wiki page to get some facts etc ?
Here it is:
Almost all of the top 100 or so are absolutely not surprising at all, but what's with Proyecto 40 and AMGTV? I can't find anything newsworthy or interesting about them. I don't understand why they made the top 5000 at all, much less into the top 10.
Somehow I doubt that all these people typed https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/404.php into their addressbar. It would be slightly more interesting to know the queries that led to it.
"Hey, if 404 is so immensely popular, let's delete some more articles so people get their beloved 404"
And why the fuck is "hyphen-minus" the second most popular article?
Global South? Is that a mobile carrier or just what everyone else calls the Southern Hemisphere?
The most views article of 2017 will be https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Web Scraping is likely (mostly) Google doing it's job - crawling the web to update it's server databases.
I wonder what Google's 'most's are for 2016.
Self-importance and self-indulgence is the root of ALL evil.
...or perhaps parents keeping up with their kids!
Self-importance and self-indulgence is the root of ALL evil.