On 10 Sep 2006, at 14:14, Andrew Gray wrote:
On 08/09/06, geni <geniice(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 9/8/06, Gregory Kohs
<thekohser(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I am curious if there is any factual data about
how many clicks
per day, on
average, that a run-of-the-mill outbound link receives in the
"External
links" section of a typical Wikipedia article? My guess is that
it's
somewhere around 3 or 4, but that's just me looking at it as a
[[Fermi
problem]].
Depends on the article they are on but I've seen over 100 claimed
on SEO forums.
[checks local logs]
I have a copy of my thesis linked from two pages (it's stunningly
boring, but it's a source for a lot of one and a footnoted cite in
another), and a third locally-hosted page is linked as a source in a
particuarly obscure article.
Between them, they're getting anywhere from one visit per day to two a
week, on average. I can't comment on "external links" sites generally.
I'm working on a free Java video player for Wikipedia.
As part of my research, I (controversially - see my
recent RfA for details) added some article-relevant
externally linked Java videos. These link to specific
videos rather to a normal website, so the stats may
be atypical of traditional external links.
Overall, these videos had thousands of views. I can
make the statistics available, either generally or to
trusted Wikipedians alone, if people are interested.
Some time ago, I uploaded some of the most popular
in OGG format to Wikimedia Commons with a free
licence, so you can see the sort of content there:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Medical.ogg - for the
Childbirth article
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Bungy.ogg - for the Bungy
jumping and Tsitsikamma articles
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:9x9_Go.ogg - for the Go
article [I have an updated version of this as suggested by one of the
players]
I have many more, but have been asked to
stop uploading new videos for the time being.