And if you poke around in their own badly-organized mess of statistics pages, you see small traces of their decline starting in 2017. Most of the charts and subpages stopped being updated years ago and are now useless, except for minor "historical interest". This is a case study in using statistics to lie--toot the numbers that are still rising (like the total number of articles) and hide the ones that are declining. Very Stalinistic of them.grandmaster-huon wrote: ↑Mon Oct 09, 2023 3:15 pmWikipedia viewership started to decline around here:
https://youtu.be/Ko8Pz4Y-tYo?si=0k0-yJMsJWPflYMQ&t=471
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Statistics
A while ago I wondered if Alexa "shut down" last year, partly because the WMF realized that Wikipedia total traffic was declining, and they pressured Alexa to cover it up. More likely Alexa's management crashed it because of declining revenues (they had a reputation for incompetence), and the WMF gained a "small bonus" by having their traffic decline concealed for them. (Ya know, Brewster Kahle was one of Alexa's original founders. He apparently doesn't like to discuss it anymore.) The major web-stats company that took over, SimilarWeb, doesn't offer historical traffic rankings. How convenient!
They stopped updating this in 2018.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikiped ... pular_than...
Wikitrends stopped updating in 2017.
https://wikitrends.toolforge.org/englis ... -week.html
And I continue to suspect this is full of faked data.
https://stats.wikimedia.org/#/all-projects