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We should keep track of 1) how many page views the top-500 articles get a month 2) how many of them are below B-class and 3) how many are FA and GA class. Biosthmors (talk) 17:17, 23 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
HiJames,
Just some questions/suggestions about the graph you have uploaded.
Iam not sure whether the Y-axis on the graph actually show percentages even-though it is labelled as percentages. Should 0.4 on the Y-axis be 40% OR is it just 0.4%.
When you are looking at %of internet users, how were you able to limit the data to to just health sites? What percentage of users are searching for health information to start with?
It would also be great if we knew the source of the data and the time from which the figure was made.
So 0.4% of internet users, use Wikipedia's health care content each day. About 1% are looking up health care info. The other 99% are looking up other stuff. As it says on the bottom the data is from Aug 2012. Click on the figures and it gives you the math and the source of the numbers. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) (if I write on your page reply on mine) 13:27, 20 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
I'm looking for a way to get this list but only for the Urology related articles. Does anyone know of an easy way to do this? mcs (talk) 15:08, 14 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
At first glance it appears that data is missing from 2017 because some columns are empty. Actually what is happening here is a change in counting methodology.
The change is that previous to 2017 the pageview count omitted redirects. For example, it would not count anyone reading the Wikipedia article for "heart attack", because that term actually redirects to myocardial infarction. The omission happened because of technical challenges in counting the traffic to redirects. Since 2017 the counting method is fixed and now we count redirect traffic. This means that prior to 2017, all the counts are too low for the omission. After 2017 this omission is gone and the counts are more correct. Blue Rasberry (talk)14:01, 7 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Previously I have tried to document changes in how pageview counts work at Traffic reporting. I just posted some additional notes at Talk:Traffic reporting. The overview that I have is that from 2009-2016 there was less standardization of pageview counts. From early 2016 the process standardized and I predict that it will be consistent from this point forward. I lack insight about whether anyone can, has, or will retroactively publish pageview counts for medicine or any other aspect of Wikimedia projects going before 2016. So far as I know there is no user-friendly online tool which does this, although there is data available for anyone with the technical skill set to access it. Blue Rasberry (talk)20:10, 7 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]
