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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!
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...
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.
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.
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.
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.
Having your own opinion is a great thing. Having a different opinion may be a brave thing.
Having a different opinion from the rest just for the sake of nonconformity is stupid, though. It leads to people thinking bleach is a cure for something just because everyone else thinks it's poisonous.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Could you name a specific fact missing from Wikipedia?
Slashdot social media options: AIM, ICQ, Yahoo, Jabber and Mobile Text. Why no MySpace?
a regime that engaged in all types of atrocities (to greater degree than any other regime in history) to exploit resources of others
Is your point that British Empire was committing atrocities to gain some tangible benefits, while many other regimes, committed a lot of worse things, but just for sake of politics/religion/fun, not to 'exploit resources of others', so they don't count?
You can just directly say that 'British Empire was engaged in more atrocities than any other British Empire in history' and it will be also true, even more provably.
This is for the English language version, which is dominated by people in the USA. The Dallas Cowboys would be far far more popular than anyone playing Association Football. Now, most American's would go to some other web site to find information on the Cowboys. Messi is probably as high as he is in the rankings from people wondering who he even 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.
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.