[Commons-l] Alexa (was: Re: FW: Commons != kindergarden)

Sun Nov 12 18:21:39 UTC 2006

And even then that, I would like to add that many english users remove
alexa or use firefox opera lynx etc without the toolbar

-bawolff
On 11/12/06, David Monniaux <David.Monniaux at free.fr> wrote:
> Barcex wrote:
>
> >   I agree that educating better to the users could help, but it will
> > never stop the problem, because people just don't care, they just want
> > to upload an image, and they do not care about licensing, and I'm not
> > very optimistic in that sense. Most of them are new users. The problem
> > is seen on the Spanish Wikipedia users just because it is a very
> > active Wikipedia (the second in number of accesses according Alexa)
>
> PLEASE (this is offtopic for the conversation but I think it's important
> to set this straight)
>
> Alexa's numbers are derived from measurements done from users of Alexa's
> toolbar, which is available only in English. As a consequence, its
> measurements are meaningful only for anglophone users. Alexa's numbers
> CANNOT be used to compare the number of accesses of the various languages!
>
> (If I were to make a wild guess, I'd think that the large number of
> hispanophones with the Alexa toolbar are from the "Hispanic" population
> in the US.)
>
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