Based on the data they compiled in November 2017 -- you can download that right here along with data from December -- most clicks come from external sources like Google. That's not exactly surprising since one in three people visit a topic on Wikipedia after it gets mentioned in the media. Fans of The Crown, for instance, flock to the website after watching an episode. Sixty percent of the links people visit are internal links, though, which means most people tend to view another article when they visit...........
Here's the funniest part:
Joking I guess....I was able to access the data dumps. Processing them is another matter.The Wikimedia Foundation says the datasets can help researchers understand Wikipedia reader behavior. If you're simply curious what other people who have the tendency to spend hours on the website are reading, though, don't worry -- you don't need to have a scientific reason to access them.
Meanwhile, in "higher education";
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/ne ... -wikipedia
Lol, our old f(r)iend Frank Schulenburg pops up again. One of the blindest Jimbofans I've ever run across. That folk-music article may or may NOT be reliable, but how to check it?A decade ago, Amy Carleton, a lecturer in comparative media studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, had a sign in her classroom in capital letters that read: “Wikipedia is not a source”.
Fast forward to 2018 and not only has Dr Carleton taken down the sign but she is now using the online encyclopedia to help teach her courses.The change of heart came after a student, who was writing an assignment on a type of indigenous South American folk music, told her that he was struggling to find any literature on the topic. “Of course I didn’t believe him when he said that the only thing he had found was a Wikipedia source,” Dr Carleton told Times Higher Education.
On closer inspection, she found that her student was correct. “The topic he was writing about was not one that was being written about by academics in traditional journals,” she explained. The Wikipedia page uncovered by her student contained high-quality and valuable information about the subject, she said, which got her thinking.